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by albedoa 2781 days ago
> Pink is not "light red". No adjustment of the saturation of red will ever make it pink.

Can you tell us what you think one has to do with the other?

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Pink is the hue between purple and red. You can't just saturate red, you also have to add a slight bit of blue.

This is pink: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53cdd3f3e4b09b69bef6e...

You can't adjust the saturation of that color to make it red, just a lighter shade of pink. There are pink colors that are closer to red than to purple, but pink is a different part of the color space than red is.

If you see the shade in that link as red or purple, then you're living in a hell of having no rational basis by which to talk about color, or possibly color-blind.

Up until the last few decades, English speakers would not consider the color in your link to be “pink”. “Pink” was another word for “light red” (not the name of a hue), named after a flower that looks something like https://www.stauden-stade.de/img/artikel/full/823.jpg

“Hot pink” is a creation of the fashion industry / marketers from the 1980s (or maybe 70s?).

If you want to be unambiguous, you should call the hue of your link purplish red or similar. You could also use a word like fuchsia (named after a different flower) or magenta (a purplish red ink used in 4-color CMYK printing).

Hm? Did you mean to reply to me? I am not challenging or even talking about the definition of pink. That is happening elsewhere in this thread.
Huh. I always called that color magenta. And called light red pink. TIL.
> living in a hell of having no rational basis by which to talk about color

That’s what many people on Hacker News are doing, apparently.