Comment on Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You by Edgar Twigg

Thanks so much for this, it was lovely! The section on deciduous forests was especially wonderful, I had no idea.

But I think there’s one important gap. Violet! As a child I always thought Violet in ROYGBIV was some sort of misunderstanding, because you could make purple by mixing red and blue, so there couldn’t be a shade of purple on the rainbow.

Then one day as an adult I saw a rainbow where the violet portion was incredibly intense. The Color From Outer Space! The violet was real! The experience of the color was very different from purple, and I now think it’s a great crime that there are any crayons labeled violet – it’s worth the search to get a full eyeballful of true violet, but the search is made difficult because almost all of them are actually purple.

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