I've discussed describing colours with several people and have never been able to come close to describing a colour without comparing it to another colour.
I could tell you that the colour red is usually a bright colour, that it stands out against most other colours, that it calls attention to itself, but that wouldn't help you to know what it actually looks like. To me, the second fruit picture looks drab and yellowish, almost like a sepia photograph.
I've also often wondered and discussed whether the colour that I see as red is the same as what everyone else sees as red. Since nobody I know has been able to describe a colour without comparing it to other colours, it's impossible to know if everybody perceives each colour in the same way. I might see a completely different set of colours to the ones that you see, but we both label them the same way.
I have tried imagining new colours, but I usually come up with bright versions of regular colours, which doesn't really count. |