h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It looks brown to me.

Green/brown colour blindness is very common, affecting about 1 in 10 of males and 1 in 100 of females. Many people are amazed when they find out that the reason they've been arguing about colour all these years is the fact that they really are colour blind.

green (browny green)

Red 109
Green 93
Blue 70

But shirts are dyed with pigment, and green is not primary in pigment, yellow is. So with pigments I think we would get something like...

Red 45%
Yellow 20%
Blue 35%

Now blue and yellow make green, and green and red make brown, but there's 10% more green than red which gives greenish brown, and, surprise, surprise, that's what it looks like to me.

Seamus

it's bloody brown, and a reddy brown at that

I don't think what it's called makes a blind bit of difference, I've got a top called 'aubergine', when it's actually almost lilac

Q

I say brown, with a yellow hue rather than blue.

I have done the tests and am not colour blind, but it could all be in the monitor.

I'm an art historian, daahlings , and I'd say brown, but:

My husband once had a shirt exactly this colour:

Under artificial light it was brown, going to chocolate brown under fluorescent light

Unter natural light it was quite definitely green!

And my baby has a pair of butter-yellow shows that go acid yellow under shop lights....

So, maybe the cloth makers looked at the dyelots by natural light (very likely) when they named the shade, but the picture you see, which has been through how many processes? was photographed under heavy artificial light.

Just call me Sherlock

order the shirt, look at it in a variety of lights - then let us know what you think!

Or it could have been named for the colour of thyme stems, which are definitely brown at this time of year.

it looks khaki to me.

Clothes shopping, Nyssa?

Everyones eyes are different; if it looks green to you then, to you, it is. Whatever scientific analysis says!

Looks green to me too but I'm constantly having arguements about what colour is what.

it looks like a cross between poo brown and khaki...
*apologies for being so graphic*
J.J

Sorry, but that "graphic" description isn't really very clear because poo comes in lots of different shades, depending on recent diet and health.

I'm going into the department, so I'll look at the shirt again on a different computer (with rather different colour interpretation) and see what colour I see there.

I make eleven distinct 'brown's and five greens. I think that means I win.

This hasn't settled an argument at all! It's just spread it!

I say definitely green, but on the brownish side of green. I can see how some might see brown in it, but it's definitely got a lot of green to it and, in my opinion, more green than brown.
A problem shared may be a problem halved, but an argument shared is an argument quadrupled!

Bob, get your eyes checked! I think you might be colour-blind!

I suppose I will next time I go to the optician, but I don't think so. A few people here seem to agree with me.

Cloviscat, I have a shirt that's just the opposite. It's green under flourescent light, and brown under natural light.

As for the shirt in question, I would definitely say it's brown.

I say it is green. A sort of khaki green.

What's the score now?

well, I think "khaki"'s got a few votes...

Our family had an argument for years about a vase. We couldn't agree on whether it was green, blue or grey.