> Now maybe its my male engineer brain, but I haven't heard of that color in 36 years, but it does make sense and it is rather distinct.
replyYou need to get into either fishing (chartreuse lures are common) or cocktails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_(liqueur) .
The funny part about color spaces being that you can't make (pure) cyan out of green and blue, which is exactly why CMYK is used over RYB in inks.
reply(I mostly think about colours in Hue-Saturation-Value terms, and a hue wheel of blue-cyan-green-yellow-orange-red-purple)
For subtractive colors (dyes) you're right. For additive (light), green and blue make cyan (Hex: #00FFFF)
replyI only know chartreuse from fishing lures.
replySame.
replyDad: Hey, what rig did we catch that king on?
Me: Live pogey with a chartreuse minnow.
I only know chartreuse from the liquor.
replyI thought it was green though.
There is yellow Chartreuse as well. I seem to recall preferring the yellow, though it's been over a decade, so I can't remember how either one tastes.
reply> When we want violet, we know just what to do. Just mix our good friends purple and blue.
replyI still refuse to believe that purple and violet are different colors.
I think of purple as encompassing both indigo (blueish purple) and violet (pinkish purple).
replyI agreed with you, and then went to the Wikipedia pages for both. I might have changed my mind now.
replyI think using violet as a name for the entire color-range around (~128, 0, 255) is also common. So in a sense purple is an element of the violet color-range. But as points they are distinct. I think purple is more specific - as a color-range it'd cover less area.
replyPurple has a lot more red. (157, 0, 255) vs. (128, 0, 255). Good to have learned something today...
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