Why don't they call pink "light red?" there is light green and light blue..but no light red!?

Answer 1

Actually there is lime green, chartruse, pastel blue, periwinkle, sky blue, cobalt and Many MANY other names for many many other colors.... I THINK the reason for so many descriptive names is that there are so many potential colors and people naturally want to give them all distinctive names.

Common lexicon aside... the truth is that light red in printing looks different from what you might consider to be pink....and pink is MUCH prettier.

A light red is actually more of a light orange (since red is made up of magenta and yellow pigments)... and pink is more of a light magenta (without any yellow).

For more information on color pigments and how they are reproduced in CMYK (cyan magenta yellow and black) and how they are reproduced in RGB (red, green, blue)... go to http://www.inkjetcolorsystems.com/Info%20Color%20Modes.htm

Hope this helps,

Adam Fiveson
www.5webdesign.com

Answer 2

Of course there is light red. Check out the chips in the paint section of any Wal-Mart. Pink is a light red, they just gave it it's own name!

Answer 3

I've always wondered why they bothered to give light red it's own name, and figured it must've been used more often than the other light colors, so they just brooke down and gave it it's own name.

Answer 4

No but there is a red light...

Answer 5

its becuase there is a there is dark pink see http://www.wai.org/store/graphics/00000001/30063b.jpg even though its a dark pink you can tell its different from red http://www.psychoastronomy.org/pinsandneedles/red%20shirt%20400.jpg