Shades of Blue
Everyone knows the colo(u)r blue. Or at least, they think they do. It's a very widespread and popular color that can be seen almost everywhere: your trousers, your Pepsi can,... As much as they believe to know everything there is to know about this colour, though, people simply call it "blue" whenever they gaze upon it, rather than specifying the flavo(u)r of blue it belongs to. This is a horrible thing to do, as it would be demeaning for its parent, the original blue.
A great example of a shade of blue is navy blue. Many amateur blueologists will most likely distinguish this shade from its imitators right away, as it is the most marketable one out of them. Many scientists have debated the exact reason why it is called navy blue, as everyone knows that the US Navy always wear Dark Green.
Another neat example could be prussian blue.
I could go on and on about the diversity of shades and variants that this blue colo(u)r has. I could rant for this about so long, in fact, that I could make a neat article about it. Which is what I'm exactly about to do.
Before starting to list the different shades of blue that exist in this universe, however, I should let something clear:
CYAN. IS. NOT. A SHADE OF BLUE.
I'm painfully aware that you, the reader, might start doubting the veracity of this article by this statement alone. I know that you might call me crazy, insane, or even mad, for stating such thing. "How could someone say such absurdity?", you might be thinking to yourself. "How could a man, if they can even call themselves a man, dare to break the status quo in such an anarchical way?"
Alas, do not worry, for I have my reasons. I'm not crazy, nor insane, nor mad. I'm just a simple thinker who have struck at an inconvenient truth while thinking too hard. Such truth is, of course, the great fallacy that is cyan being a simple shade of blue, when it is in fact its very own colo(u)r.
Now, I could give a very long, tedious, boring thesis on why cyan should not be listed as a shade of blue. But, I'm a kind writer, and I'm aware that you might have better things to do at the moment, so I'd prefer to summarise it in a neat and pretty chart:
 |
This is color right here could be described as a lighter shade of red. However, it is not considered as such. Its actual name is pink (or magenta, if you're into printers); and if you were to qualify it as "light red", people would (rightfuly) critizise your (lack of) logic. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
 |
If you were to follow the "pink = light red" logic, then you'd have no choice but to also call this colour light green (even though it barely looks like it), insted of its actual name, which is yellow. This would further dismish the very few integrity you would have left at the eyes of society after daring to call pink a shade of red. | ||
 |
Finally, to rest my case even further, this colo(u)r right here may as well be a lighter shade of black. But it isn't, is it? No. It's gray. |
As you can see, these arguments lead to one only logical conclusion: cyan is NOT a shade of blue. Therefore, it should not go on this list, nor its many children (e.g.: Turquoise, Mint, Aqua, etc.); rather, they should have their very own list named Shades of Cyan. A list that I'm not going to make myself.
But let's stop talking about that disgusting cyan. It is now time for the time you were wating for...
