by Marie Meyer | Jun 13, 2018 | Color, Quora questions
A question from Quora. My response: Everyone with normal color vision sees “blue” similar to, but not necessarily exactly the same as you. Blue is one of the 4 “primaries” of human color vision. The other three are yellow, red, and green. So it just...
by Marie Meyer | Jun 13, 2018 | Color, Quora questions
I was asked this interesting question on Quora. My response: Because color is part of our sense of vision. It is a response to outside stimulus, just like hearing, smell, and taste. The physical world contains light of different wavelengths, and we’ve evolved a...
by Marie Meyer | Jun 8, 2018 | Color, Quora questions
This seems to be a frequently asked question on Quora! My answer: Green-yellows. (The captions for the swatches give their Munsell notation and their Hex #.) In the traditional color wheel, the complement of purple is yellow. In the Munsell system, the hue spacings...
by Marie Meyer | Jun 7, 2018 | Color, Quora questions
I was asked this question on Quora. This was my response: Here are two sets of colors that could be called “royal blue”. The captions are hex values. You may not agree with all of these, but they do reflect how the terms are actually used. In short, a “royal blue” is...
by Marie Meyer | Jun 5, 2018 | Color, Quora questions
I received this question today via Quora. My response: As is so often the case, the answer is: it depends on how you are defining those color names. Both are used to name a huge range of very different colors. Here are some real-world examples I have found. The...