how many colors are there in the whole world?

Question

Please...i NEED to know..!!

oh yeah and if you only know like 10 or 20 thats fine too...Im just trying to find a purfect color for something..ok..please any color will do

LOOK PPL...I WANT TO KNOW ANY COLORS....OK...I DON'T CARE HOW MANY...JUST TELL ME SOME COLORS,...OK

Answer 1

Infinite number of colors based upon the 3 basics

now, if you use light like in a cathode ray tube, you use red, blue and green to make all the other colors. In light the presence of all colors result in white, the absence of color (and technically, of light) is black

If you use pigments, like in paint, you use red, blue, and yellow. The absence of pigment would be white, the presence of all pigments is black. Think about it, if you dump some red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, brown, etc. paint, it all kind of turns black after awhile!

added 12/5/06
Why are you getting upset at people who answered the question as you wrote it. If you are looking for decorating tips to find the "perfect" color, maybe you should have put the question under a different category. Having people randomly rattle off color names is kind of pointless as how do we know what color you are looking for. If you really need to find the "perfect" color, why don't you go to Lowes, Home Depot, Sherwin Willams, or the like and look at their vast array of color chips. Then you might find the perfection you seek.

Answer 2

It depends what you are talking about, and how you define colour.

If you're talking about named colours, there are easily millions of them. Some names are so obscure (like 'cosmic latte') that it's unlikely anyone will ever have a complete accounting of them all.

On the other hand, many tend to identify seven colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet), with white being just a mix of them and black being an abscence. This used to be the view advanced by scientists, but I suspect the water has become muddy enough on this issue by now that they want to stay out of it.

An artist will tell you that there are three primary colours (defined as red, yellow, and blue), three secondary colours (orange, green, and purple - made by mixing the primaries), and two shades (black and white).

From a psychological point of view, people tend to identify colours by what they are familiar with. So most colours as their used tend to be named things like 'reddish-green', unless the person themselves is familiar with a more precise name. So the amount of colours would vary from person to person, but usually be around the seven or nine above.

Arguably since colour is a product of the wavelength of light, there are an infinite variety of wavelengths, so perhaps there is an infinite amount of colours (this might be the 'physics' answer).

Biologically speaking, the human eye has three kinds of colour receptors that are each most sensitive to a specific frequency and sensitive to a lesser degree to those nearby. So it is quite possible to have two bunches of light that had completely different wavelengths LOOK like the same colour to a human. When combining patches of light it can be found that there are, in fact, any number of groups of three 'primary' colours which can be mixed to LOOK like any of the other colours.

There have also been measurements conducted to determine how many different colours a person can discriminate between. The amount varies from person to person, but it seems to average around 10 million different colours (whether or not the person has names for them all). Some can see reportedly as many as 100 million.

So how many colours are there? I'd say there are as many as you want there to be!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

An infinite number that can be made from the only TRUE colors (blending, darkening, lightening, etc.) of blue, red, yellow. White is the collection of ALL colors, and black isn't really a color at all - it is the ABSENCE of colors.

Answer 5

Bubble, your question ask SPECIFICALLY how "many" colors are in the whole world. My guess is an infinite number of colors, as we can not see the whole spectrum with our human eyes.

Now, if you want to know what color to pick. I say purple with a hint of teal.

Answer 6

Infinity... that's ur answer. But it all starts from three:

Red
Blue
Yellow

They mix into secondary colors, then those colors mix, and those colors mix, and then again and again and again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color
Black & White are the oddballs. They are also opposites. White is PRESENCE of all colors, while black is ABSENCE of all color.

Answer 7

Sorry but you will NEVER get a definite answer on that.. Th ere are so very very many and variations.... it is like asking how deep is space

Answer 8

I don't know the exact number, but if you start counting now, you might get them all before you die. Probably not, though.

Answer 9

the rainbow has exploded my mind , have not n clue what it is, sorry bruh its nothin personal.

Answer 10

an indefinite amount