Do people just not know what Turquoise is?

[PigeonLady]

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

ismy.blue

I like this segue, so don't apologize. The Inuit people of Northern Canada have 53 words for snow, which fits in with what you are saying about language.
Turquoise is also called teal, seafoam, aquamarine or just aqua. If, for example, you are searching online for a blouse that is turquoise, you may have better luck using those words, because turquoise seems to have gone out of favour with manufacturers. I noticed that when I was trying to find something in turquoise. All of the rooms in my house are light turquoise, avocado green and periwinkle blue. Blues and greens are my happy colours.

169. Turquoise is blue.

Your boundary is at hue 183, bluer than 93% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.

Now I know why Reform adopted the colour turquoise. It was to pick up all the blue Conservative votes!

DH sees things I call blue as green, and things I call brown as grey. Causes a great argument about paint colours at times.

Turquoise is not teal, it's a much paler colour.

Very obviously a pale blue with a greenish tint to me.

Your boundary is at hue 177, bluer than 75% of the population. For you, turquoise is green

apart from I would say turquoise is blue, blue turquoise’s sea water 🤷‍♀️. My brain obviously disagrees.

That's so weird. It definitely looked white and gold and then I clicked the link and the wiki page looked white and gold too. I came back onto MN and suddenly it was blue and black and clicked back onto the wiki page and also blue and black!

Hue 174, I'm in the middle- just like in everything😊

You're aware that everyone perceives colour slightly differently, right? It's all about how it is filtered by the eye and interpreted by the brain. So your true turquoise is only turquoise for you and everyone else's could be anything from a slight variant either side that's barely perceptible as different, upto basically green or blue and noticeably very different to yours.

I agree. I'm only saying what clothing manufacturers often call it. Aquamarine is lighter than turquoise too but they still call it that. Seafoam is greener than turquoise but they call it that as well.

Blue here, but it was all pointless because I simply wanted to scream “it’s neither blue nor green”.

I found that really irritating - for me apparently turquoise is blue. Except it isn't to me, it's turquoise, a colour in it's own right! A sort of green-y blue. But not green OR blue 😂

It's interesting to see where your blue/green boundary lies compared to other people, but I think that linking it to your perception of their definition of turquoise is conflating 2 different things.

The colour turquoise is based on the stone: and there's a lot of natural variation in that.
"Depending on the amount of iron, zinc, or copper present within the chemical composition, this gem can currently be found in different shades ranging from a dull green to grass green to a bright, medium-toned, sky blue."

I think of turquoise as slightly more blue than the colour they showed as turquoise. But that's because I have some turquoise jewellery which is more blue-toned.

@PigeonLady i think turquoise does have very greenish tones to it as well
as blue 🤷‍♀️🤣

I got 87% and to me turquoise is green!

I got stuck on the third one which I thought was neither blue or green.

DD has a pair of trousers. She says they are blue. I say they are green. I also have a high green boundary according to this test. I just really love green apparently!

Mine is nearly the same as yours

My turquoise is blue.

I do this. Not purposely, it’s how I see it. Years ago I had to do a colour blindness test which determined that I am colour blind between a large section of blues and greens. It explained a lot!

Turquoise is blue

I scored 0 on this test which I think means I got all the colours in the ‘correct’ order. Don’t think I have good colour sensitivity though.

I'm always disagreeing with my family about blue and green. I'm going to get them to do this too.