Hose color: bottle vs. tartan green

[Jock Scot]

OC,

I'll definitely agree with your last statement. No consistency!

Nothing new there then.

[lethearen]

Jeez, can't green just be green?! I've heard someone comment before that men only see a dozen or so colours, and women see the full spectrum. Of course, I will argue vehemently that neither my coral nor my salmon shirt is pink, and will pull out my pink shirt to illustrate the difference

[fluter]

Jeez, can't green just be green?!

No, not green! :-) Yellow. perhaps. Green is right in the middle of the visible spectrum, and probably we have the most visual acuity around those frequencies.

[OC Richard]

I've heard someone comment before that men only see a dozen or so colours, and women see the full spectrum.

I don't think that's true, but it might certainly be true that women might use a larger vocabulary of names for different colours than men do.

Every person sees colours a bit differently. Even the two eyes of the same person don't see with exactly the same focal length, hue perception, contrast perception, etc.

Some languages only have two words for various colours, one corresponding more or less to "red" and covering all bright, intense, and warm hues, the other more or less corresponding to "black" and covering all dark, dull, or cool hues.

Gaelic has one word, "glas", which refers to any green, grey, pale, or dull colours.

Before we get uppity, we have to remember some English oddities in colour use. Americans use the word "hazel" to refer to an amazingly broad spectrum of eye colour, from brown to grey to green.

We also don't have words for many hair colours... I know because my wife's hair has been described as "brown", "red", and "bonde" and none really fit.

Colours exist in a continuum, but our words have boundries, so there can never be enough words to cover all the colours we can perceive.

[lethearen]

I don't think that's true, but it might certainly be true that women might use a larger vocabulary of names for different colours than men do.

Yeah, that was what the original person was saying. Guess I left it pretty vague. His point was that most men, in general, just don't bother differentiating hues. We may obsess about details of our other manly pursuits, but crimson vs scarlet? Bah, they're both red

[wildrover]

Not to mention, we spell it "color" over here, and everywhere in the Commonwealth it's "colour" .

Normally Jock would say this...maybe he's slipping? ...but don't worry overmuch about matching.

-Sean

[fluter]

I don't think that's true, but it might certainly be true that women might use a larger vocabulary of names for different colours than men do.

Well actually geeks of both sexes routinely discuss about 16 million gradations of color, but ...

Colours exist in a continuum, but our words have boundries, so there can never be enough words to cover all the colours we can perceive.

but do do it, we have to use words like "0xefeffe". That's a word for my favorite background color.

[fluter]

I don't think that's true, but it might certainly be true that women might use a larger vocabulary of names for different colours than men do.

Well actually geeks of both sexes routinely discuss about 16 million gradations of color, but ...

Colours exist in a continuum, but our words have boundries, so there can never be enough words to cover all the colours we can perceive.

...but do do it, we have to use words like "0xefeffe". That's a word for my favorite background color.

[The Guy in the Kilt at UC]

I wore some bottle green hose to a formal event where my picture was taken. I was surprised to see that they look black in the photo. I figure lighter and brighter is always better.

[lethearen]

we have to use words like "0xefeffe". That's a word for my favorite background color.

Ouch! I don't think my eyes would appreciate looking at that shade for a background colour all day every day! It's nice, just a little too light for me.

Guy in a Kilt -- I agree. Darker hose can get shadowed way too easily in indoor photos.