This is fascinating, and it makes me think once again that we need a basic color term (turquoise? teal? cyan?) between blue and green.

Whoa, mine is very close.

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Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into t...

Bleen, clearly.

For me teal is greener than it's blue, while turquoise is bluer than it's green. I think the term that makes me imagine the true smack-in-the-middle colour is "aqua". ("Cyan" is a printer's word, and it would look odd if used to describe, say, the colour of some swimming-pool tiles.)

Oh boy! We're talking about cross-linguistic (in)consistency in basic color terms (as part of linguistic relativity) in my Language, Mind, & Society class in two weeks -- definitely gonna share this with my students! It's kinda weird that the light vs. dark blue distinction is the one English lacks

Looking at it, I see the line as between green and cyan and cyan and blue.

What 12 years of research on color terminology has taught me is English makes some really weird choices about the basic colors terms.

Two of the colors Y I used in making this guy The metallic areas are turquoise mixed with white

Don't the paint manufacturers have precise codes for specific pigments and shades? I think the people who sell colors have technical nomenclature and taxonomy, but such terms are not conducive to beautiful prose.

No it's Seafoam !