So, for me, letters and numbers always have the same color. The most common form of color vision deficiency involves differentiating between red and green. Additionally, there are tools available to convert images to how they look for different types of color vision deficiencies. Synesthesia is, as I describe it, a harmless brain quirk in which you associate some stimulus with a color. Color vision deficiencies There is a lot of information available about color blindness (e.g., colorblindness). And then the boys would be in pink, because that was a watered-down version of a sort of traditionally masculine color, red. So for example, in Catholic parts of Germany it was the fashion to dress your little girl in blue, because it was an homage to the Virgin Mary. So the rule of thumb was often if you have brown eyes a baby looks good in pink no matter what their gender is. It's an interesting question because we tend to feel that that's a really immutable rule that must have been true forever, but in fact it's a very relatively recent thing that that has become ironclad - actually in the '70s.īut, earlier, it was a question simply of what goes with the child's complexion. On how pink wasn't always considered a color for girls So that order is black, white, red, green and yellow, blue, and then brown. And they found that as languages develop differing names for colors, those names always enter the language in the same order.
In 1969 these two linguists, Brent Berlin and Paul Kay, did a survey of 20 different languages that were completely unrelated to each other. On the surprisingly universal relationship between language and color But when Newton came out with his observation about the rainbow, there was some pressure for him to make it be seven colors so that it would match the musical scale, so he had to kind of come up with indigo on the fly. There aren't actually, strictly speaking, seven colors in the rainbow. So it's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. "Roy g biv" is a mnemonic that helps you remember the order of the colors of the rainbow. It's so ubiquitous that it's basically invisible until the moments where you notice it again. The point is that, you know, color is affecting us a lot more than we realize.
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