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Posted: 03 Jun 2019

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No indigo

No indigo
To my eyes every colour of the rainbow is represented here, except indigo. I believe, as I mentioned to Robert Cabaret under the day before yesterday's photograph, that not only do different languages see different colours, but so do different individuals who speak the same language. For example, I don't think indigo is a distinctive colour at all, and people seem to have different ideas about what's red and what's orange (and what's pink, which doesn't make it into the rainbow at all). So I'm interested in hearing what you think.

Thanks to Robert for inspiring this, and thanks to all commenters.

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And now I've decided that's pink, not red. So my colour perception has changed since this morning.

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 Diane Putnam
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Yes, the Tuareg indigo looks purple-blue-black to me, too.
5 years ago.
 tiabunna
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Hmm, I'd always thought of indigo as a very dark blue. Anyway, when I looked it up I found: "Indigo is a deep midnight blue. It is a combination of deep blue and violet and holds the attributes of both these colors. ... Powerful and dignified, indigo conveys integrity and deep sincerity. ". Who'd'a thought! :-)
5 years ago.
 John FitzGerald
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So in the end it's all arbitrary. I wonder how dependent these definitions are on the marketing preferences of textile and dye companies.
5 years ago.
 Sarah P.
Sarah P.
It's all in the sound. "Indigo" sounds romantic. (!ndigo, on the other hand, is plain ridiculous.)
The blue in the picture above is often called "periwinkle" (in the clothing trade.) And yes, that's pink (to me) not red.
I like the whole assortment (of scarves???) here, especially the mingling of light blue/green, the former you could call turquoise (though it's a little too blue for that) and the latter "seafoam." How's that for poetry?
5 years ago.
 John FitzGerald
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I'm not sure exactly what these are, Sarah. Maybe table umbrellas. Too big and canvassy to be scarves, anyway. The tropically-themed one may be an interloper, too. To my untutored mind you'd expect seafoam to be white. I discovered that periwinkle is also called lavender blue -- people can't even make up their minds about what plant it resembles.
5 years ago.

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