Stop the Foolishness: Of Course Pink Is a Color
This Color Is Real janoma.cl via Flickr There's an interesting volley online right now between two science journalists I admire, Michael Moyer and Robert Krulwich, over the color pink. In a blog post for NPR last week, Krulwich was shocked to learn from a video that pink does not exist, and Monday Moyer responded with his own ontological take. Pink is not found in the ROYGBIV electromagnetic spectrum. But that does not mean it isn't a color! There's a key distinction between colors of light and of pigment, between additive color and subtractive color, that everyone seems to be glossing over. As Newton figured out, white light is a compendium of all the parts of the visible spectrum. This is the additive model of color. Take away the blue hues, and a white light will appear yellowish; and so on and so forth. Yet when you combine paints of...