Two years ago i shared this website where you try and determine when a shade is either blue or green.
Posting it again because lemmy has grown quite a bit since then, maybe we have more people that havent tried it!
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2026
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This is a hard test because most of the colours presented don't look green or blue, is like a perfect blend, and hard to answer
and also influenced by the previous color.
Yeah. I saw cyan and to me, that's neither green nor blue.
It ends with "For you turquoise is ___". Turquoise is turquoise. If I had to choose, I guess it's blue, and so my line is gonna be between turquoise and green, but it's actually turquoise. But I can see an argument for turquoise being green.
Ultimately, it seems like the actual question the test answers is "If you had to choose, do you consider turquoise to be blue or green?"
I suppose that's where language and culture might help shape perceptions, because in french at least we talk about "turquoise blue", so there is no ambiguity answering that question
(I got 174 taking the test)
I think English generally thinks of proper blue as "dark¹ blue" and cyan as "light² blue", and turquoise is closer to cyan than proper green.
¹navy/royal/primary
²sky/electric/robin egg
FWIW, I'm not sure that tracks entirely, and that's accounting for my own years training in various analog and digital art media. For most US English-speaking humans (if not universally^1^, minus linguistic^2,^ ^3^ and biological^4^ differences, [per Oklab^5^]), the modern understanding of subtractive color^6^ (ie. [reflected] vs additive [light]) holds that :
It's crazy out there in color land! 🤣
Some are hard to tell, but still distinct enough to be more green or blue.
Its for fun though, not an actual test.
Yeah test was the wrong word. The ones I saw weren't more green or more blue, they were just darker or lighter versions of the colour in between green and blue. Lol
That is what I thought too, but my result ended up being at the exact point on the OP photo I thought (prior to trying the test) that the color shifted from being blue or cyan or turquoise into being definitively green. Which the test says is the median.
Really it seems like it is gauging whether or not people think the mid range is more green or blue
It's turquoise, though.
It is, but im saying “is turquoise/cyan closer to being green or blue” in a given person’s perspective. For my perspective, turquoise is a shade of blue that leans toward green, but not a shade of green. The same as vermillion is a shade of orange, although it is red leaning.
Other people may perceive turquoise as being just a green as I think it is blue. That is really the point of the test. Not “do we see the same green or blue”, because the question isnt about what green or blue are at the extremes. Its about cyan/turquoise as you said