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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The spectrum of colour from Red to Violet is natural, but the precise division up into separate colours is rather arbitrary and varies from language to language and culture to culture.
Red, Green and Blue are fundamental, but there's no particular reason why we should declare that there are two colour between red and green instead of none or one.
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There's also yellow to mention. While green is a primary color for light, yellow is a primary color for pigment. Plus, although people know what the color pink looks like, it's not part of the spectrum. Instead, we know it when we see it.
Some colors seem to work better than others, especially blue. As an example, the following song titles don't feel the same when you change the blue to another color:
- Rhapsody In Pink
- Green Velvet
- Mr. Orange
- Lavender Onions
But I'll take the win once again, and leave you to contemplate the nature of the universe as revealed by the smallest of details.