Actually the colors are or, argent, gules, vert, azul, purpure, and sable.
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:07:18 -0500 > To: brin-l@mccmedia.com > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Indigo and Umami > > At 03:14 PM Tuesday 7/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: > > >On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:04 PM, William T Goodall > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> There used to be seven colours in a rainbow and four basic flavours > > >> (sweet, sour, bitter, salt) and then indigo became a shade of violet > > >> and umami became the fifth basic flavour. > > > > > > I thought that there were still 7 colors of the rainbow *including* > > > indigo. I learned the colors as ROY G BIV -- Red Orange Yellow Green > > > Blue Indigo Violet. > > > > > > Or did you learn a different system? > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo > > > >"Color scientists do not usually recognize indigo as a significant color > >category, and generally classify wavelengths shorter than about 450 nm as > >violet." > > > >Also, there's a source text from the 19th century at Wikipedia on this > >very question; the tinyurl for it is http://tinyurl.com/5f8afl > > > >My resident color expert says it's just a word game. :) Then again, he > >knows more about color *science* than color *words*. > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow#The_place_of_indigo > >"All the Roy G. Biv mnemonics follow the tradition of including the colour > >indigo between blue and violet. Newton originally (1672) named only five > >primary colours: red, yellow, green, blue and violet. Only later did he > >introduce orange and indigo, giving seven colours by analogy to the number > >of notes in a musical scale. Some sources now omit indigo, because it > >is a tertiary color and partly due to the poor ability of humans to > >distinguish colours in the blue portion of the visual spectrum." > > > >My kids' crayon boxes have red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet; if > >you buy a box of 8 crayons, you get all those but not indigo. I > >personally conform to the crayon box school of "rainbow colors". > > > >(Oh, and Resident Color Expert warns that magenta, pink and brown are > >*not* rainbow colors, just in case anyone thought any of them might be, or > >ought to be.) > > > Magenta, however, is a secondary additive color, or a primary > subtractive color, along with cyan and yellow. > > > . . . ronn! :) > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
