Do people just not know what Turquoise is?

[PigeonLady]

Have you seen this? It’s absolutely bonkers. That’s not green!!!!!

ismy.blue

My turquoise is green

Same for me

Saying for me doesn't change the facts.

Look at the images people have posted with their scores on. They show a spectrum of colours from blue to green.

Every colour you are asked to rate sits somewhere on that spectrum. They are literally, objectively, factually either more blue or more green.

Turquoise is just a name you give to a series of colours that overlap part of the spectrum where blue becomes green. That is irrelevant to this test. That's not the question.

You might as well look at a number line and say "for me, the number 14 is not nearer 0 or 20, it is a teen."

Got DH to do the Pantone test, he's really bad as using my touch pad.

Score: 2

• Gender Male
• Select Age Range 50 - 59
• Best Score for your Gender 0
• Worst Score for your Gender 128

Worst scores, by sex are very different

May now need to redo test to get maximum wrong score 😣

Literally, factually and objectively they may well be more blue or green.
But to me they literally and objectively dont look it. It could be the screen setting on my phone. Maybe I'm thick. Or my vision is shit. But to me (and some PPs) we cannot see more blue/green in some of them. They are a perfect mix of the 2.

Incidentally I've done the test multiple times. Sometimes my turquoise is blue. Sometimes it's green.
So it's clearly not brilliant. Fun, but not conclusive.

A green turquoise would be more like a Jade, to me anyway

My turquoise is green. ✅

Incidentally I've done the test multiple times. Sometimes my turquoise is blue. Sometimes it's green.So it's clearly not brilliant. Fun, but not conclusive.

It's not meant to be conclusive, I don't think. Firstly, turquoise is both blue and green, not one or the other. Each of us will perceive it differently according to internal stuff in our eyes and your colour perception, probably things like if you're wide awake or sleepy after a long day, with a headache, etc, etc, egc. And also external factors like the colour resolution on your device, whether you're using high availability settings or anything, whether you have a light or dark background, whether you're outside in full sunlight or in cloud, or inside, with no natural light, with dim or bright lighting, cool or warm spectrum bulbs.

Basically, there are so many factors which will affect how you perceive colours, particularly subtle differences in shades and hues, that you won't get the same result every time - which is what makes it interesting.

What a lovely name for pantone to choose!

Can anyone explain Teal? I've always thought there are two distinct Teals, a blue Teal and a green Teal but is Teal just another Turquoise ( not the same colour but the same concept?)

To me, teal is a dark turquoise, but it's not something I've thought very deeply about....

Wiki gives it a go

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal

I agree with all of that.
But none of that changes that some of those colours (as I see/perceive them) are neither more blue nor more green.

And I've fallen down a wormhole about tetrachromacy. Fascinating stuff!

I remember a blue teal being very 'in' c. 2005 but now teal seems a lot greener (on clothing).. I prefer a greener teal myself not keen on the blue version.

I remember a blue teal being very 'in' c. 2005 but now teal seems a lot greener (on clothing).. I prefer a greener teal myself not keen on the blue version.

The teal marking on teal drakes is distinctly green so you're in good company

I think teal is a greener (and often darker) turquoise. And aqua is a blue (often paler) turquoise.

I don’t know what mines means?

What's supposed to happen? I get a green screen saying this is green and nothing else!

You have to click "this is green" or "this is blue" you get about 7 colours to do this on and then it tells you if "your" turquoise is blue or green.

Turquoise itself doesn't know what Turquoise is, I've just googled raw Turquoise stones and some are bluey and some are greeny!

Mine was 176 too.

I had to google chartreuse. Thanks for the enlightenment. I would have called that lime yellow.
Fascinating, truly

Green or yellow chartreuse though?