A friend and I were talking about how girls and boys see colors differently. If you don’t know what I mean, there’s an example below:
My first thought was “yep, boys pretty much only see the primary and secondary colors… then I realized boys know pink. Since one of my friends is getting married and I need to find a “pink” dress for the wedding, I’ve had a discussion about rose vs. hot pink vs. magenta vs. pastel and so on, and then emerald vs. olive vs. lime vs. forest for the green. But if you go back to the basics, light yellow, light blue, light purple, dark red, dark green, pink is the only light/dark color that gets it’s own name.
Anyone else find that odd?
- Eliabeth
that is odd, I thought guys only saw gray and black, lol.
With your skin color, I think the pink would look very nice on you!
Haha, thank you Terry
What’s really odd is how pink was a boy’s colour in the 19c.
That’s interesting because when we had dogs, I gave the red collar to the boy and the blue to the girl and mom told me I was wrong but red just struck me as more of a boys’ color since it wasn’t pink.
I struggled with this for a minute until I realized what’s odd is that brown is missing from the chart. Then it all made sense.
Pink is imaginary. Your mind makes up what your eyes can’t really see. It’s the ultra-violet and infra-red that make flowers and sunsets so indescribably beautiful.
Haha, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
Grey is also missing… and white and black
Grey is my favorite color!
Silver is mine… also not featured on the list.
You do make a good point. I think part of the answer to your quesion may be that ‘pink’ is actually in the ‘purple’ range as there is often a tiny tinge of blue in most pinks. Very few pinks are truly just made from red & white.
Interesting, I’m going to have to pay more attention the next time I’m picking a color in photoshop to see what the RGB ratio is. My guess is most colors are a mix of all of them.
I read a lot about this yesterday after posting my comment.
Escape Artist is right that pink is not a mixture of red and white.
Blue and purple are the real trouble-makers here. They occupy a three-color range in the optical spectrum that really belongs to cyan, indigo and violet. Pink is actually the missing color in an 8-color color wheel. If the optical spectrum was circular, pink would appear between red and violet and have it’s own natural wavelength. It gives the appearance of a natural color because it only mixes two primary colors, but since there is no light wavelength to support it, our mind manufactures it by subtracting green, it’s opposite color in an 8-color wheel, and the center wavelength in the optical spectrum!
By the way, grey is the perfect RGB mixture.