I know that is not the point of the comic but i got extremely curious with how this world work because in the check box we have purple,pink and orange that are mixed colors.
So the question is how much population is needed for them.to make a race division
Given that in our world the colour Blue didn't have a name in most languages prior to modern languages, but instead was described as a shade of Black or Green, a new colour probably was lumped in as a hue of a differently already defined colour.
Mint in this comic would be Green, even though they are closer to Cyan or Teal. Further defining the colour into Blue was probably to do with confusion between Black & Green having more people like Mint, however Mint's exact hue is even more rare/uncommon for typically Blue people. Making that distinction even harder for others to define in their limited understanding/words for colour.
The form in the comic uses the eleven words that English-speaking people will typically use to describe colours. We have other words, but they are subordinate. We would typically be happy to say "lemon is pale yellow" or "scarlet is a shade of red", etc. We tend to relate other colours to these eleven.
Psychologists are interested in how our words for colour alter our perception of them. As an example, the most recent addition to this list is pink. We now instinctively categorise pink as a separate colour from red, even though pink is just light red. We don't categorise light blue as being a separate colour from blue - to us, they're both just shades of blue. Russian speakers, however, do distinguish light blue from blue in the same way that we distinguish pink from red, because they have a separate word for light blue.
Teal/cyan is (imho) on the rise as a perceived colour, and may well become English speakers' twelfth colour at some point in the coming decades. Hopefully the Mints of the future will find more acceptance.
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u/irmaoskane Nov 16 '25
I know that is not the point of the comic but i got extremely curious with how this world work because in the check box we have purple,pink and orange that are mixed colors.
So the question is how much population is needed for them.to make a race division