>>28752690>>28752698>>28752765>>28752878>>28752930>>28753001Alright fuck you guys. I shall deign to enlighten you. Get your butts ready.
Got your butts? Got 'em firmly strapped on? Good.
There are 13 colors. Give or take.
Let's start from the top. First of all there are obviously millions of colors, but talking about "categories" of color. Meaning I'm counting yellow, dark yellow and light yellow as the same color.
Secondly, here's my thought process. There are definitely 6 colors: Red, green, blue, cyan, yellow and magenta. These are the main ones directly related to the cones in our eyes and their opposites. I don't think anyone would deny orange and purple are distinct enough to be their own color, too, so that's 8.
There's also brown, which is weird because it doesn't have its own hue. You have to desaturate orange or red in order to get brown. Another weird one is azure, which is almost always what people mean when they say "blue". Actual blue is dark and deep, also known as indigo. It's too intense, so people generally soften it by using azure instead. The problem is that blue looks very similar to azure in the first place. I don't usually count them as different colors, but I will for this.
Black, white, and grey. . . .that makes 13 "main" colors.
There's only two sub-categories I'm not sure about. The first is yellow-green and mint green. For obvious reasons, green is the widest part of the color spectrum. So YG and MG feel almost like their own color, but I never know if I should count them. If we DO though, Bug fulfills yellow-green, which makes mint green missing.
