Is my blue your blue? (2024)

Posted by theogravity 22 hours ago

Is my blue your blue? (2024)(ismy.blue)

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chirayuk 15 hours ago|

"Your boundary is at hue 181, bluer than 87% of the population.

For you, turquoise is green."

Took it 3 times (90%, 85%, 87%). At least, I now know why sometimes I'm surprised that people call green things blue :)

To be honest, there should have been a "neither" category, because that was frustrating to classify a color that is clearly neither. But I understand the need for a binary choice for this experiment.

Turquoise `#40E0D0 ` feels green to me, while Dark Turquoise `#00CED1` , I can agree to consider as blue.

kroeckx 10 hours ago||

As others have pointed out, the 2nd color is not something I would call either blue or green. Except for the first, it never showed anything I would call blue. So really I have told it the border where I still call something green. So is my green your green?

aidenn0 19 hours ago||

Just last week I called something blue and my daughter objected; she said it was green. After discussion we both agreed it was was teal and she said roughly "but teal is a shade of green." To me Teal is a (admittedly greenish) shade of blue.

zkmon 9 hours ago||

Though everyone calls a solid blue color as blue, the actual visual perception or experience of that color could be entirely different. They just grew up calling that experience of their own, as blue color.

jumploops 19 hours ago||

Curious how this looks for red/green colorblind folks?

Do they see everything beyond the initial green as a shade of blue?

--Edit--

My red/green colorblind father just got back me with this result:

> Your boundary is at hue 175, bluer than 68% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.

nazgul17 13 hours ago||

Reminds me of the discussions with my wife. She is from Japan and, over there, you cross a traffic light when it's "blue". IIRC, the word was chosen before international agreements, and the colour has shifted towards green since, but it's still more blueish than in other countries. And they still call it "blue".

rendx 21 hours ago||

> Your boundary is at hue 174, just like the population median. You're a true neutral.

danbmil99 19 hours ago||

Dunno if this is a late-in-life thing or I was always like this, but I definitely need more blue to see blue than most (this test put me at 82%, I think that means I'm in the lowest quintile for seeing blue?) Bright blue still looks mighty blue, but when light is dim, I basically see black where most would still see blue.

Practical ramifications: * Some of my 'black' shirts are blue when it's sunny * Popular desktop themes (solarized dark) have text that is completely unreadable

carlovalenti 7 hours ago||

I remember a pic of a shirt, which a former colleague of mine was showing on his monitor ten years ago, and the office splitted half in recognizing the colours, can't remember if they were gold vs black; but we went crazy because nobody could believe that the other half was seeing a colour different from the one they were seeing!

tiagod 7 hours ago||

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

turboladen 19 hours ago|||

Same here at 82%, although I don’t think I’m seeing blues as black.

chirayuk 15 hours ago|||

I'm at 87%. How would you classify Turquoise (`#40e0d0`) and Dark Turqoise (`#00CED1`)?

torginus 19 hours ago||

I think your monitor or room lighting might just be different from others'

dang 21 hours ago|

Is My Blue Your Blue? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41430258 - Sept 2024 (527 comments)

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