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There is a theory that specific shades of colors are difficult to recognize or differentiate unless you name them. I wonder how unique these 100% saturated colors would look without context compared to other colors.



Learning to see is a skill that we have to train. If you ever try to paint or draw a picture from a photographic reference, you will realize that you've spent your whole life blind. Even with the photo right in front of you, it can be extremely hard to paint certain details, because the brain simply refuses to accept the photographic reality when it has another idea of how an object should look.

As for colour, language does not help very much with being able to see and understand them. What helps more is playing with photographic software and getting a feel for the relations within a system like HSL, or RGB.


A great many languages don't differentiate between green and blue. There is simply one word for both.


A great deal of languages only have one blue color




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