Rizen
Smash Legend
Well it depends on how you define color, lol.So today this girl on my bus says that pink ISN'T a colour, it's a shade of red. And all my friends keep telling her that pink is it's own colour because:
- It has it's own section on the colour wheel. (The wheels that art programs have)
- We even told her to try and make pink with red with the shade slider. (The closest she could get was like salmon colour)
- And she says that colours like baby blue aren't colours because they're SHADES
- She says that google lies because it says that pink is a colour (like WTF???)
- We keep trying to tell her that colours reflect off of light and that's what we see but she's super stubborn.
- Then she asked about black and white and we tell her those are SHADES
- She says that she can make pink paint out of red by mixing for a LONG time -____-
- She says that you can't make red or yellow and those are colours but we told her they're PRIMARY colours
- We tried to explain that red is like a great ancestor for pink
This just stressed me out for the bus ride. And I need ideas to debate with her. Please can you give me ideas?
And @Nammy12 will be gone for a while. He's on a Ottawa trip.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/07/does-the-color-pink-exist-scientists-arent-sure/
I think the best explanation is from ^this:
"Pink is real—or it is not—but it is just as real or not-real as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet."
Seeing as Pink isn't necessarily a tint of red but a range including tints of read and violet mixed...
http://www.colormatters.com/the-meanings-of-colors/pink
it's not exactly accurate to describe pink as a tint. I think the dictionary definition is what you're looking for:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pink?s=t
"a color varying from light crimson to pale reddish purple."
since color is:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/color?s=t
"the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue."
a broad term relating to reflected light.