But teal isn't a single point, it's a range. You can have teals that are more blue or more green than each other; they can't all be zero. Whichever one you choose to be the true transition point between blue and green, there will be teals that are more blue or green than that one.
No, I'm saying that the sliver of a chasm between the colour in isolate, and what I subconsciously imagine the midpoint to be, is so damned thin that were I to look at the colours side by side, I could not distinguish one from t'other.
And (even if I could) a bluish teal would no more be a blue than a reddish orange a red.
It's not about how an RGB monitor produces the color, it's about how it's perceived. #00ffff ("Cyan" or "Aqua" [1]) looks bluer to me than green, while #008080 ("Teal") looks significantly greener, despite both colors using equal amounts of blue and green in RGB.
Is zero more positive or negative? You should be able to answer that.
But teal isn't a single point, it's a range. You can have teals that are more blue or more green than each other; they can't all be zero. Whichever one you choose to be the true transition point between blue and green, there will be teals that are more blue or green than that one.
Sure, but there's also a subrange at the (subjective) centre of that range that will not be perceived as either more blue or more green.
And the teal that I referenced in my earlier comment was (for me) such a colour.
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More positive. -0 is more negative.
It's neutral (-1 * 0 ≡ +1 * 0); don't confuse it for an infinitesimal (which can be positive or negative).
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True zero is very rare. So you are saying that teal just happens to be the true zero?
No, I'm saying that the sliver of a chasm between the colour in isolate, and what I subconsciously imagine the midpoint to be, is so damned thin that were I to look at the colours side by side, I could not distinguish one from t'other.
And (even if I could) a bluish teal would no more be a blue than a reddish orange a red.
It's more teal.
Nope. On RGB, they are equal parts blue/green.
Since most people are viewing this on a monitor, the question is pointless.
It's not about how an RGB monitor produces the color, it's about how it's perceived. #00ffff ("Cyan" or "Aqua" [1]) looks bluer to me than green, while #008080 ("Teal") looks significantly greener, despite both colors using equal amounts of blue and green in RGB.
1. https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-names/