It occurred to me a couple years ago ~ Bill was pressuring me to pick a color for the kitchen. I was struggling to find one that we would both like. Finally he said, honey, pick a color, before lunch, or I will. So I picked the first color that appealed to me. It happened to be lime green. Then I started to notice that when I saw things I thought were fun or cute or that I liked, they were lime green! Then I started to look around the house at other things and discovered that I've liked lime green for a very long time!
Wiki says;
Lime green is a color between yellow and green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is half way between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the color wheel. Lime green is approximately the most visible color on the spectrum because it is corresponds to a wavelength near the peak of the photopic luminosity function
Anyway...today I saw something I liked in the color I like, but they called it Chartreuse. Then I started thinking...lime green isn't really the color of limes.
Limes look like this,
But lime green looks like this,
And apple green looks like this,
And chartreuse looks like this,
And spring green looks like this,
I'm so confused now. I guess out of all of these, I like Chartreuse. But I'm going to keep saying lime green :-)
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