There are no distinct colors and shades. There's just one big spectrum that contains all the colors we can see and of course brightness. The names of the colors simply mark points on the spectrum. There are many different chromatic circles that describe different primary- and secondary colors (some based on pigment others on light or psychology). But those are all just abstractions to make it easier to talk about color. Most people have learnd the red, blue, yellow cirlce with purple, green and orange as secondary colors*. So those are the names they usually use. But the names for the so called "shades" are less known and therefor less used.
Personally I always found the spectrum between red and blue hard to talk about - Pink, Magenta, Rose, Mauve, Violet, Purple... I literally had discussions about those for hours.
* This one has little to no practical value. In print Cyan, Magenta and Yellow are the primary colors. In Monitors it's Red, Green and Blue.
Is it normal to think most people don't see turquoise?
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There are no distinct colors and shades. There's just one big spectrum that contains all the colors we can see and of course brightness. The names of the colors simply mark points on the spectrum. There are many different chromatic circles that describe different primary- and secondary colors (some based on pigment others on light or psychology). But those are all just abstractions to make it easier to talk about color. Most people have learnd the red, blue, yellow cirlce with purple, green and orange as secondary colors*. So those are the names they usually use. But the names for the so called "shades" are less known and therefor less used.
Personally I always found the spectrum between red and blue hard to talk about - Pink, Magenta, Rose, Mauve, Violet, Purple... I literally had discussions about those for hours.
* This one has little to no practical value. In print Cyan, Magenta and Yellow are the primary colors. In Monitors it's Red, Green and Blue.