Six character words numbering in the millions is impressively economical and precise. For the purposes of science and computer graphic designers the RBG hex codes provide a six character code name for more colors than the human eye can see. For international, intragalactic, transtemporal purposes, naming colors and picking from them a few names for practical social purposes becomes an interesting problem. Still, in English alone there are over 500 color names that somewhere someone considers minimal. I see six rainbow colors, but four seems reasonable at a glance and maybe seven or nine by staring. Much beyond that and you enter into the land of Color Babel. If you see only four colors (the number of color words in some languages), other members of your tribe are likely to agree with you almost all the time that a given color's name is the correct one to use. For natural language purposes somewhere between 4 and 500+ names are considered needed. For some purposes 16,777,216 possible hex color code combinations is enough. Even in the same language, names will vary as some will insist that #008000 is "green" and #00FF00 is "lime." The #number is in hexadecimal which allows over 16 million colors to be named using "0123456789ABCDEF" symbols.īlack is the absence of light and so is #000000, and white is the presence of all visible wavelengths of light and so is #FFFFFF. Show people a dozen or so different "shades of red," and all will have an opinion as to which is the "real red" whose name will vary depending on which of over 6,000 languages the viewer speaks. In the West, per tradition, there are 7 colors, namely: Most people see somewhere between 4 and 9 colors in a rainbow. The number of colors in a rainbow as seen by humans varies, or rather the number given names and perceived as separate varies. How you pronounce the letters in your native language is irrelevant. TUCSON (A-P) - Logicolor is a written language that uses three letter words to name up to 4,096 colors. TOPICS: COLOR NAMES, UNIVERSAL COLOR LANGUAGE
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