alt Hacker NewsIs my blue your blue? (2024)
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Also no way to account for the variation of LCD displays. The same "colour" can look different on two different panels
> Your boundary is at hue 172, greener than 63% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.
isn't turquoise exactly (50%) between the two?
Wow. Did anyone else have some serious trouble with this?
The first color was obvious to me, as it was designed to be (it even tells you if you intentionally misclick). But at the very next color, the first "test color", I literally face palmed and said "oh my god" out loudly.
It was so, so hard for me to decide. I really just wanted to pick a non-existent "teal" option. Both "blue" or "green" felt wrong and equally right at the same time.
It just got harder from there. At the end, it told me that my threshold is "bluer than 80% of the population", but honestly, I don't think that's really true in my case. I was so ambivalent, my choices really felt random to me very quickly.
After 4 clicks, I can no longer decide whether it is green or blue. I would pick "neither" if it were offered
Fun. Are you accepting PRs? I would love to add a “share” button that shares the color I landed on
I want this but for blue vs. purple.
Showed me teal but only have options for blue and green. Teal ain't either.
Witgeinstein's Beetle xD
This is cretinous. There's a well defined colour in between blue and green which is turquoise / cyan. It even says at the end "You see turquoise as x". No I don't, I see it as turquoise. It's like asking is the red or is this yellow without acknowledging the existence of orange. Either rage bait or pure idiocy.
> Your boundary is at hue 174, just like the population median. You're a true neutral.
This is stupid without color calibration, or even contrast/brightness levels on your monitor, which can turn these turquoise shades into other colors entirely.
Tried it on two displays, one I’m 82% green, the other I’m 75% blue.
The xkcd color survey[1] was 16 years ago now. With the data available, there were various follow-ups. Many, including xkcd's own "take it for fun here" link there in [1], are now 404. But the strata[2] and word cloud[3] are still up, and relevant here.
The data remains available. It was a TidyTuesday ("social data project") for 2025-07-08.[4] This response[5] looked at TFA. (This week's TT is ag tariffs.[9])
I just did a quick and sloppy search, so there's likely more out there. Curiously, I found AIMode and Bing/chat less immediately helpful than I'd have guessed.
Years ago I used the xkcd data for a prototype web interactive for kids, which shader filtered video to selected colors... but it was overlapping rather than a partition, and I'd never leave out cyan. Hmm, maybe a vibe coding target.
[1] https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ [2] https://www.datapointed.net/2010/06/xkcd-color-name-strata/ [3] https://luminoso.com/the-color-cloud-an-interactive-visualiz... [4] https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/main/dat... [5] https://jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2025/07/2025-07-09_col... Off topic: [9] https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/main/dat...
For some reason, dragging the window makes the chart re-animate.
Also needs a button "this is both" for colors like cyan
They're all xanh to me.
When the final threshold image was displayed, I felt that the boundary was too far over to the left and I had a fair amount of green on the blue side.
I think this would work better if the hues jumped around a bit instead of blatantly triangulating, so that you wouldn't be biased by your prior semection.
Man doesn’t understand teal the website
almost got fooled by blue being green or vice versa. nice experiment!
In France turquoise is historically called “bleu turquoise”, so French people would definitely categorize the in-between as blue.
hue 174, "true median" .-.
Pro tip, I had my device's blue light filter enabled.
I want to say that shifted my score a lot. But every time I play I get a pretty different score, even on the same screen calibration. So, uh...
Despite all the (valid) criticisms here I just wanted to say that this is a really cool Idea and well executed imo. Thanks for sharing!
cyan is neither blue nor green
I wonder how much of this is testing people's eyes/brains, and how much is testing their screens.
>"Your boundary is at hue 187, bluer than 97% of the population. For you, turquoise is green"
Problem is that it asks to categorize colors that to me are neither blue nor green
turquoise is green.
Can we get this with more different colors.
Like forest green olive green. navy blue.
Also maybe the full color spectrum. And a select set of colors to pick from.
I think things are green that other people think are grey. Never heard of that with anyone else.
people are getting more stupid debate without evidence and logic is rampant the title is the clasic example of word salad, pretending to be valid conjecture , but only exists to cause distraction through "subjectification" or foucault off, already
I just took it to mean is this more blue or green rather than literally blue or green. Correct answer is then 180, anything else is clearly a fail :)
I got hue 175 twice, but bluer than 66% of the population once and 59% the second time.
Midori
It said that for me Turqouise is blue.. it is not, there was just no option for tuqouise
This assumes that the person you're testing isn't aware of the whole category of colors that sit between green and blue?
There's teal, cyan, aquamarine, etc...It's such a uniquely american notion to force someone to categorize something (incorrectly) into one of 2 things. Almost a comical parallel to the political system.
crowd sourced perception research. Love it, OP.
This is cyan!
it's a neat experiment but I think it's ultimately flawed because color is usually perceived in context, and depending on context I could easily see anyone reinterpreting the hues they labeled "green" in this test as blue, and vice versa.
EDIT: in general, blue is a pretty fascinating color. yes, many cultures have a somewhat blurry distinction between blue and green. Some others seem to differentiate shades of blue that others don't (i.e. in Russian "голубой" and "синий" refer to distinct colors but in English those would be just shades of blue). I guess there's something about photons in that energy band that messes with perception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-photo_blue
always blue
I enjoyed this more than I should lol
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Would be cool to see a gender distribution. Women perceive more colours than men, wonder how it impacts this.