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When Was The Last Time A New Colour Was Discovered?
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Has mankind always been aware of all the colours we know today? Or were some discovered more recently?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Can't properly answer this -someone will - but I read goodness-how-long-ago that as mankind evolved our vision also accepted new shades and colours. Terry Pratchett invented a new colour, just as an aside. We see more subtly than our forebears as new dyes for cloth etc. appeared. Hope this helps, but some knowlegable person will be along soon. :)
A new blue was discovered in 2009 by a university professor and chemist.
https:/ /www.bu sinessi nsider. com/new -blue-d iscover y-2017- 5?r=US& amp;IR= T
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'Colours' are simply the names that we assign to different wavelengths of light (or to mixtures thereof). So they're not 'discoverd; they're simply assigned names. Paint manufacturers, for example, keep assigning all sorts of new names to the products in their ranges but they've not really been 'discovered', simply given names.
If you recognise 'black' as a 'colour' though (rather than as the absence of colour), you could say that vantablack was discovered in the early years of this century. It's strictly a product name but the word can also used to describe its colour (or lack of it), since it's the blackest black in the world - or, rather, it was until last year when an even blacker substance was discovered (but neither that material, nor its colour, seem to have been named yet).
https:/ /en.wik ipedia. org/wik i/Vanta black
https:/ /news.m it.edu/ 2019/bl ackest- black-m aterial -cnt-09 13
If you recognise 'black' as a 'colour' though (rather than as the absence of colour), you could say that vantablack was discovered in the early years of this century. It's strictly a product name but the word can also used to describe its colour (or lack of it), since it's the blackest black in the world - or, rather, it was until last year when an even blacker substance was discovered (but neither that material, nor its colour, seem to have been named yet).
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Not all peoples of the world "see" colours the same way:
https:/ /en.wik ipedia. org/wik i/Lingu istic_r elativi ty_and_ the_col or_nami ng_deba te
E.g. for British people, there is a tendency to lump shades of colour together using the qualifiers "light" and "dark" where other places see the as completely different and have completely difference names for them. If you look here at the graphic in the top right corner here: https:/ /en.wik ipedia. org/wik i/Shade s_of_bl ue, top left and bottom left are fairly obviously different colours, yet we'd probably call them light blue and dark blue.
Also, some cultures see blue and green completely the opposite way round, e.g. referring to grass as blue etc. More here: https:/ /en.wik ipedia. org/wik i/Blue% E2%80%9 3green_ distinc tion_in _langua ge
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E.g. for British people, there is a tendency to lump shades of colour together using the qualifiers "light" and "dark" where other places see the as completely different and have completely difference names for them. If you look here at the graphic in the top right corner here: https:/
Also, some cultures see blue and green completely the opposite way round, e.g. referring to grass as blue etc. More here: https:/
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