My daughter was watching Blue's Clues. They were doing color combinations (red +...

gdwatson · 2026-04-28T02:39:06 1777343946

> Now maybe its my male engineer brain, but I haven't heard of that color in 36 years, but it does make sense and it is rather distinct.

You need to get into either fishing (chartreuse lures are common) or cocktails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_(liqueur) .

coffeeling · 2026-04-28T03:07:37 1777345657

The funny part about color spaces being that you can't make (pure) cyan out of green and blue, which is exactly why CMYK is used over RYB in inks.

(I mostly think about colours in Hue-Saturation-Value terms, and a hue wheel of blue-cyan-green-yellow-orange-red-purple)

noahchen · 2026-04-28T07:18:15 1777360695

For subtractive colors (dyes) you're right. For additive (light), green and blue make cyan (Hex: #00FFFF)

excalibur · 2026-04-28T03:52:40 1777348360

> When we want violet, we know just what to do. Just mix our good friends purple and blue.

I still refuse to believe that purple and violet are different colors.

red369 · 2026-04-28T06:09:05 1777356545

I agreed with you, and then went to the Wikipedia pages for both. I might have changed my mind now.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(color)

adornKey · 2026-04-28T08:17:37 1777364257

I think using violet as a name for the entire color-range around (~128, 0, 255) is also common. So in a sense purple is an element of the violet color-range. But as points they are distinct. I think purple is more specific - as a color-range it'd cover less area.

adornKey · 2026-04-28T08:02:39 1777363359

Purple has a lot more red. (157, 0, 255) vs. (128, 0, 255). Good to have learned something today...

cpburns2009 · 2026-04-28T12:43:28 1777380208

I think of purple as encompassing both indigo (blueish purple) and violet (pinkish purple).

Suppafly · 2026-04-28T03:45:03 1777347903

I only know chartreuse from fishing lures.

natebc · 2026-04-28T10:12:36 1777371156

Same.

Dad: Hey, what rig did we catch that king on?

Me: Live pogey with a chartreuse minnow.

refactor_master · 2026-04-28T05:08:18 1777352898

I only know chartreuse from the liquor.

I thought it was green though.

tmtvl · 2026-04-28T08:40:20 1777365620

There is yellow Chartreuse as well. I seem to recall preferring the yellow, though it's been over a decade, so I can't remember how either one tastes.