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English is weird
Carl-E:
Golden?
They may well not have had a word for it.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 16 Sep 2012, 10:38 ---
How many colors do you see there.
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Um, only about nine. And that's because of this case of deuteranopia that I have.
Papersatan:
These are the different colors I see
These are the different colors I have words for
Elysiana:
I see a few hundred colors there, could probably tell you the rough CMYK for each (would be better in RGB but I work more in print than screen), and have words for... I dunno, I could probably come up with a word for 25-30 of them maybe? Maybe more? I mean it depends on if you can include stuff like "burnt orange" or "salmon pink" - descriptive, not separate words. Anymore, my "color names" are just CMYK values, really - that's the only way I think of them.
ETA: This is a fun test to determine how accurately you see color. I scored a 4 out of 100, meaning I basically had 4 out of order (switched two in two places). (another edit - that was last time I took it, a long time ago. I just did it again and got a 0/100) Of course it depends on how accurate your monitor is, but that's only for fine detail.
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77
Papersatan:
The names I was using were from what are recognized as the standard 11 color words in English. I could come up with more color names for sure, but less than you I am sure, since I don't work with color for a living.
My division is not so much where I can see that the color is different, but, since one has to divide somewhere, these are where I would divide if I were say, sorting fabric into piles, or developing my own language.
I scored a 16. It is interesting my errors were all in the same part of the spectrum, the blue to purple part. That seems to correlate with the level of detail I made when I divided the spectrum above. particularly since I keep looking at that yellow/green section I made and thinking it needs another line through it.
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