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A comment on The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015). Parent comment

Re:The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015) by OscarCunningham on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @09:23AM (#19553755)
What I've heard as the explanation is that his "blue" referred to our "cyan" and his "indigo" referred to our "blue".
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Re:The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015) by aasasd on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:10AM (#19554241)
Which almost exactly corresponds to the ‘rainbow colors’ as used in Russian (and probably other Cyrillic languages). The color swatches in the linked article are precisely Russian ‘blue’ for Newton's indigo and ‘lightblue’ for blue.
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