Tumblr Users Freak Out That Magenta Is Not A Real Color And That Impossible Colors Exist
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Tumblr users often find things to discuss and argue over. Yet sometimes, one user or another digs up something that other people don’t know and it starts a conversation where some express their disbelief while others try to shed some light on the subject to make it more understandable to the general public. Sometimes the users on the blue social media site band together to discuss survival bias and how it affects our lives, other times they try to explain how there is an ethical way to consume eggs and other produce.
This time Tumblr users gathered to discuss whether magenta is actually a color and if it exists. One user posted a strip of color asking for everybody’s opinion on “this shade of pink” and once another person responded by saying that it’s magenta and it’s not, in fact, a color, people truly lost their marbles.
One Tumblr user asked people what they think about magenta and it unleashed a wild discussion
According to Wikipedia, magenta is “is technically not a color, it has no wavelength of its own although it is classified as a color by many and it is easier to call it one.” And there is a lot of science behind it. Either way, pretty impressive what our brains come up with to explain things that don’t actually make sense or have no physical counterpart.
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I'm colorblind. Magenta is blue. You're welcome.
If you're seeing magenta as blue then you likely have a lack of red receptors.
The most common form of color blindness is red/green and that's most common among men.
I was trained in old time chemical photography and this blows my ancient mind. The classical color theory of James Clerk Maxwell, a physicist of the theory of electromagnetism gave us the constructs of primary colors red, green, blue the additive system of (RGB) and the negative system of (CMY) cyan, magenta and yellow. All images can be seen as positive or negative colors. Modern video displays are all RGB, while all color images that are pigmented or printed are CYM. Here is the mind bender. In the additive system, the color yellow is the mixture of green and red light. Counter intuitive I know, but get a magnifying glass and examine your TV screen and you will only see Red, Green, and Blue. Display a yellow image and look closely and you will see the red and green pixels are lit while the blue is dark. TL;DR images composed of light use RGB, while printed images use CMY. There are more things in heaven and Earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Here's another wild bit of vision information that can kind of mess with your mind, so proceed at your own risk: We see our own nose AT ALL TIMES. Our noses are never not in our line of sight, but our brains have learned to block it out through something called unconscious selective attention. That way it isn't constantly distracting us. Good luck on forgetting that soon and going back to not seeing your own nose. :)
I see (notice) my nose all the time. I guess my brain is broken.
We all do, but it’s not interfering... right?
Omg what
When I close one eye, I can see my nose. 😂 This is quite funny.
I think I have this for a cataract in my eye too. I was born with a tiny white spot in the center of one pupil, which turns out to be a cataract. My parents worried I'd see a white spot or "hole" in my vision. But nope, my brain must just erase it and fill it in for me. It doesn't impair my vision one bit.
Cool!!
I guess Pantone has some work to do with #d0417e then. Next they’ll be telling me that Octarine isn’t a real color either. 🧙🏻♂️
Pantone is an industry principle with the sillo requirement of printing ink on a surface with a consistent result. Pantone colors are only ink tha are pre mixed together based on mixing 10 different colors instead of of the four-color mix (CMYK) which is also an industry principle based on material color mixing(ink) as opposed to light color mixing(like a screen). RGB is used to describe the color emitted by a source of light.
I'm colorblind. Magenta is blue. You're welcome.
If you're seeing magenta as blue then you likely have a lack of red receptors.
The most common form of color blindness is red/green and that's most common among men.
I was trained in old time chemical photography and this blows my ancient mind. The classical color theory of James Clerk Maxwell, a physicist of the theory of electromagnetism gave us the constructs of primary colors red, green, blue the additive system of (RGB) and the negative system of (CMY) cyan, magenta and yellow. All images can be seen as positive or negative colors. Modern video displays are all RGB, while all color images that are pigmented or printed are CYM. Here is the mind bender. In the additive system, the color yellow is the mixture of green and red light. Counter intuitive I know, but get a magnifying glass and examine your TV screen and you will only see Red, Green, and Blue. Display a yellow image and look closely and you will see the red and green pixels are lit while the blue is dark. TL;DR images composed of light use RGB, while printed images use CMY. There are more things in heaven and Earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Here's another wild bit of vision information that can kind of mess with your mind, so proceed at your own risk: We see our own nose AT ALL TIMES. Our noses are never not in our line of sight, but our brains have learned to block it out through something called unconscious selective attention. That way it isn't constantly distracting us. Good luck on forgetting that soon and going back to not seeing your own nose. :)
I see (notice) my nose all the time. I guess my brain is broken.
We all do, but it’s not interfering... right?
Omg what
When I close one eye, I can see my nose. 😂 This is quite funny.
I think I have this for a cataract in my eye too. I was born with a tiny white spot in the center of one pupil, which turns out to be a cataract. My parents worried I'd see a white spot or "hole" in my vision. But nope, my brain must just erase it and fill it in for me. It doesn't impair my vision one bit.
Cool!!
I guess Pantone has some work to do with #d0417e then. Next they’ll be telling me that Octarine isn’t a real color either. 🧙🏻♂️
Pantone is an industry principle with the sillo requirement of printing ink on a surface with a consistent result. Pantone colors are only ink tha are pre mixed together based on mixing 10 different colors instead of of the four-color mix (CMYK) which is also an industry principle based on material color mixing(ink) as opposed to light color mixing(like a screen). RGB is used to describe the color emitted by a source of light.