Little Eye On The Provinces

[Wowbagger]

Welcome to my world.

Everything I have always considered to be black is now an obscure shade of blue. Fluorescent cycling jackets which have always been green are now, apparently, yellow (and that isn't the orange ones). Purples, mauves and puces could be any bloody thing. Domestic harmony is now disturbed by any colour that the others deem is anything other than it appears to be.

[Kim]

I maintain that puce isn't a real colour.  Mauve is on shaky ground.  And I don't really believe in cyan, though I can prove it exists mathematically.

Black vs dark blue is my specialist subject though.  All about the contrast, innit.

[Kim]

Thing about having dodgy colour perception, when an object's colour is completely arbitrary you won't think to question what you're seeing unless it comes up in conversation.

Well isn't that the truth?  We've been married for 30 years, both of us were surprised.  Good to know that in all that time we've never struggled so much for a topic of conversation as to descend to a discussion on the colour of chocolate wrappers. 

Quite.

If you were identifying a bucket, chopping board or screwdriver handle, you'd probably have had the conversation^[1] decades ago.  Indeed, if Cadbury used blue and purple wrappers to signify the presence of fruity nutty evil lurking within the perfectly good chocolate you might be in with a chance.  But Dairy Milk wrappers are just "Dairy Milk wrappers".  Not "the purple ones".


_{[1] "Have you seen the blue screwdriver?" "What blue screwdriver?" "The one that lives in the kitchen drawer!" "We don't *have* a blue screwdriver???" "Yes we do, I was using it the other day to fettle my widgets(!)" [...] "Found it!" "Found what?" "The blue screwdriver" *waves triumphantly* "That's purple!" "Bloody isn't!" etc.}

[Cudzoziemiec]

But what about The Purple Ones in a boks of Kwolitea Streight?

[Kim]

But what about The Purple Ones in a boks of Kwolitea Streight?

Both shades of blue are evil nut-based things and to be avoided.  Simples.

Actually, my approach to boxes of chocolate is to check the key for the minority that I'm likely to actually like, and go looking specifically for those, so it probably never came up.

[clarion]

...We've been married for 30 years, both of us were surprised...

Surely there must have been some clues in that time?

[Basil]

But what about The Purple Ones in a boks of Kwolitea Streight?

Now that is purple. (to me)

Good, I was worried that that colour was going to turn out to be, erm, tope?
(Please don't try to explain tope to me.  People have tried.)

[Basil]

...We've been married for 30 years, both of us were surprised...

Surely there must have been some clues in that time?

She thought I was the gardener.

I thought she was my rather over zealous probation officer.

 

[mcshroom]

Cadbury's are definitely purple - apparently Pantone 2685c*. They've even gone to court over it:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24401249

*Just to be more confusing the BBC article refers incorrectly to 2865c, which doesn't exist in the pantone range, but 286 and 287 which it would fall between are both blues.

[Cudzoziemiec]

So there are blue ones in Quality St as well? I'd forgotten. I'm going to have to buy a box to find out, aren't I? Or maybe wait till Christmas, someone's bound to have a box then.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

But what about The Purple Ones in a boks of Kwolitea Streight?

Now that is purple. (to me)

Good, I was worried that that colour was going to turn out to be, erm, tope?
(Please don't try to explain tope to me.  People have tried.)

It's taupe, and it's what wankers call pale beige.

[red marley]

One of the effects of "red-green colour blindness" (deuteranomaly - reduced function in detection of green wavelengths) is the mixing up of blues and purples.  This affects about 6% of white men, so you are not alone.

I did not read this in the Trowbridge Gazette.

[Feanor]

Time for an xkcd....

http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

[Kim]

One of the effects of "red-green colour blindness" (deuteranomaly - reduced function in detection of green wavelengths) is the mixing up of blues and purples.  This affects about 6% of white men, so you are not alone.

I did not read this in the Trowbridge Gazette.

Surely it's protanomaly (the other, less common, "red-green colour blindness") that leads to blue-purple confusion?  You don't need a green receptor to discriminate colours made up of blue and red.


(I'm one of the 0.01% of protanomalous females)

[red marley]

I think it applies to both, but may be wrong about this.

http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/types-of-colour-blindness/

[rogerzilla]

Oh no.  How will I know what I'm stuffing into my face?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24401249

Nestle has won a court battle with confectionery rival Cadbury, over Cadbury's attempt to trademark the purple colour of its Dairy Milk bars.

Anyway - Purple?  I know I'm colour blind, but surely the Dairy Milk bars are blue?

They're purple.  Milka bars are lilac.

The acid test of colour perception is Jaguar's Black Amethyst Metallic, which looks black...but then you look again and there is a definite tinge to it.  Weird colour.

[Kim]

The acid test of colour perception is Jaguar's Black Amethyst Metallic, which looks black...but then you look again and there is a definite tinge to it.  Weird colour.

Assuming 'amethyst' means something bluey-green, I'd probably be really good at that^[1].  On the other hand, red wine all looks black to me (deutaneropes don't get this effect).


_{[1] In daylight, up close and personal.  Like most people with colour perception issues, I'm rubbish at identifying colours of anything small.}

[Biff]

Mucky goings on in Aberdeen

[rogerzilla]

Mucky goings on in Aberdeen

That's not real, Shirley?

[jsabine]

Mucky goings on in Aberdeen

That's not real, Shirley?

Well it's in the Sunday Sport, so it must be true ...

[mrcharly-YHT]

The acid test of colour perception is Jaguar's Black Amethyst Metallic, which looks black...but then you look again and there is a definite tinge to it.  Weird colour.

Assuming 'amethyst' means something bluey-green, I'd probably be really good at that^[1]. 

amethysts are purple

[Biff]

Mucky goings on in Aberdeen

That's not real, Shirley?

You mean I've been hoodwinked 

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

The acid test of colour perception is Jaguar's Black Amethyst Metallic, which looks black...but then you look again and there is a definite tinge to it.  Weird colour.

Assuming 'amethyst' means something bluey-green, I'd probably be really good at that^[1]. 

amethysts are purple

Usually.

[Regulator]

The acid test of colour perception is Jaguar's Black Amethyst Metallic, which looks black...but then you look again and there is a definite tinge to it.  Weird colour.

Assuming 'amethyst' means something bluey-green, I'd probably be really good at that^[1]. 

amethysts are purple

Usually.

Indeed.  They can range from pink to dark  blue.

My father was a qualified gemmologist (albeit it gemmology was his hobby) and I have a collection of rings he made me with unusual stones - including a blue amethyst and a green tiger's eye.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I think there's difference between colour names you'd use and those you'd understand. Well, for me anyway. I don't think I'd describe something as lilac, violet, fuchsia or even fucksie, it'd all be shades of purple, but the names mean something to me.