[vinceguidry]

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.

[jacobolus]

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).

[albedoa]

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.

[erikpukinskis]

Huh. I always called that color magenta. And called light red pink. TIL.

[porphyrogene]

> 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.