Comparing the two color systems, they each have red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. But indigo on the color wheel? Where's that? I suppose the case could be made for it to be blue violet, which is a tertiary color. Such an honor, but so confusing! Wanting to really have indigo represented in my rainbow Celilo quilt, I did a bit of searching for indigo examples. This block is probably the best, not quite blue and not violet or purple, for that matter.
Compare it to this violet example, which is closer to what we see in a rainbow. Ah, now I have some direction for sorting the indigo from the violet in my scrap pile. But alas, there's no indigo, only a bit of violet, and plenty of 'purple' in those scraps. It seems purple is the catch-all term for anything containing a mix of red and blue. Now that I know what I'm looking for, I head to my 'purple' storage bins, searching for indigo, or fabrics with a leaning toward blue.
And I find these:. Happy to find what I was seeking, off I went to make both indigo and violet block parts for the rainbow of Celilo. See the difference? Indigo on the left, violet on the right. Now that I know just what indigo is, I'll search out those bluer 'purples' when putting together another rainbow quilt. In the meantime, when a quilt calls for purple, I'll probably still put the indigo and violet together in the same purple color family, as it's just easier that way.
And if you look closely at the pinwheel block below, there's a wide range of color in there, though very little indigo. That's the separate block on the left. Feel free to lump your blue-purples and red-purples into one color family and call it purple - I won't mind. And just to confuse the issue my brown dog is named Indigo.
Indie-go in - Indie-go out. Thanks for the color lesson, I've too often just lumped them together and had to take a couple out in finished quilts because they were "backward" of the rainbow. Nothing like having a 5 year old to point it out! LOL Thanks again, j. Very interesting blog today.
The web color blue-violet or deep indigo is a tone of indigo brighter than pigment indigo, but not as bright as electric indigo. The web color indigo is equivalent to the color indigo that is usually reproduced in pigments and colored pencils. The color of indigo dye is a different color from either spectrum indigo or pigment indigo. This is the actual color of the dye. A vat full of this dye is a darker color, approximating the web color midnight blue. Indigo may not be your first thought when it comes to home decor, but it can add a sense of tradition and depth to a room.
Indigo is bold. But its depth is rich and comforting. To add depth to the walls, add some applied molding and paint it the same color. Indigo paint on the walls can bring dazzle and coziness to a library, den, or home theatre. If your home is already decked out in coastal decor, indigo brings sophistication and class to this casual style.
Dark blue and white are crisp, clean and classic. This color combination is the equivalent of a little black dress. It can be traditional, coastal, global, fun, boho. Indigo and red go together like cheese and crackers.
They are a satisfying way to decorate the room. Red is an energetic color, one that balances the calm, focused energy of indigo. It looks absolutely fabulous with indigo. The same holds true for Russian. It would not be necessarily true for a 6 color term language for example, Mandarin Chinese.
I'm speaking more from an artistic point of view. When you mix the colors for paint, you'll understand what I mean! But it is very interesting that different cultures feel the need to differentiate different amounts of colors.
I hadn't known that. Well, for my two cents -- while I personally think of purple as a blanket shade for everything between red and blue, from what I can tell, most people think of "indigo" as a purple-tinged deep blue, "purple" as the purple at the more bluish end of the spectrum but not as blue as indigo , and violet as a more reddish purple.
If I remember correctly, Japanese does not distinguish linguistically between blue and green -- aren't both colors "ao"? Yes, indeed. Japanese does have the same words for "blue" and "green. Somali traditionally used the same word for green and blue too owlaled although a Somali girl recently told me they now have the word 'blu' Irish and Scottish Gaelic always had a word for blue 'gorm' pronounced gor-um but they had 'glas' for 'green', 'gray', and 'gray-green.
Hence the Colorado River from the color of its waters and the dish chile colorado. Now, why is red wine "tinto" in Spanish instead of "rojo"? I guess in answer to the original question, I would consider purple and violet to be shades of purple, but indigo to be a shade of blue.
Uriel, Hello again! Re: Spanish 'tinto'. I think it's one of these cases where the original word was tinto rojo "tainted red"; red tincture? Uriel, "Tinted" red.
That's a better way to say it though I think that one would almost have to be a wine connoiseur to know that. Take care! I'd say that violet and indigo are different colours from purple, not different shades of purple. Violet is closer to blue than purple. This is my personal definition when I talk about such colours: Purple - a secondary colour in terms of paint mixing and retinal observance a mixutre of red and blue and encompasses all shades within that range, towards to UV spectrum of visible light which I premsume would be anything from about to nm.
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