An average human can see a million different colors but mere words can never capture their extraordinary range of hues.
The most common colors our eyes perceive can be arranged as follows:
- White, Pink, Beige, Yellow, Orange, Green, Red, Blue, Purple, Brown, Black,
Loosely speaking, white would be the lightest and black is the darkest. However, color is a property of light dependent on wavelengths of light received by the eye.
For example, Roy G. Biv (acronym for the sequence of hues making up a rainbow): Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet are arranged from longest wavelength to shortest.
Ultraviolet radiation has a shorter wavelength than the visible violet light. Infrared radiation has a longer wavelength than visible red light. The white light is a mixture of the colors of the visible spectrum. Black is a total absence of light.
To learn more, see What Wavelength Goes With a Color?.
The graphic below depicts the approximate range of wavelengths that are associated with the various perceived colors within the spectrum.
Visible Light and the Eye's Response via kwout
Our powers of color vision derive from cells in our eyes called cones. The 6 to 7 million cones provide the eye's color sensitivity and they are much more concentrated in the central yellow spot known as the macula. In the center of that region is the " fovea centralis ", a 0.3 mm diameter rod-free area with very thin, densely packed cones. - GSU.edu.
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