On: Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language

[e12e]

Actually related xkcd: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

[stewartbutler → e12e]

It is amusing that 'salmon' shows up on the male side of the gender comparison chart. The only time I've ever seen that used for a color is in Halo. Wonder how much that biased the results.

[cmiller1 → stewartbutler]

I assumed it was from the heavy use of that color for referring to men's shirt colors because some men have a fear of wearing "pink"

[antillean → stewartbutler]

Haha, same with teal. I only know it because of StarCraft and WarCraft 3 (and now DoTA etc).

[TazeTSchnitzel → antillean]

I know teal from Windows 95's default desktop background colour :)

Although it must be pointed out that Windows 16-colour VGA teal is a different colour to Windows 256-colour VGA teal.

[afterburner → e12e]

I love the mental breakdown at all the shades of green at the end of the article.