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A follow-up to yesterday’s posting “Queens Pride”, about this digital composition:

(#1)  Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, in the 7 ROY G. BIV, or Newtonian rainbow, colors, rather than the 6 Pride Flag colors — so the composition was probably not intended to celebrate the wonderful LGBTQ+ness of June; but let’s just disregard that

Well, QEII #7 is in purple, not violet. Then there’s #6, which should be indigo (a famously elusive color) but strays far from Newton’s rainbow band of that name, so provoking a Facebook exchange between Joel B. Levin (JBL) and me (AZ):

— JBL: That’s not a color I would have associated with the term indigo.

— AZ: Nor I. It looks like the composition was made from QEII in actual garments, and this color was as close to indigo as she got.

— JBL:  I guessed as much. Too much red, though.

— AZ: Yes, it’s a lovely color, but not something in between blue and violet

What it is is maroon, roughly this color:

(#2)

Indigo, in contrast, is a vivid purplish blue, roughly this color (indigo blue):

(#3)

But, as I said, whoever composed #1 was apparently constrained by the Queen’s actual wardrobe choices.

And people say that British monarchs have no real function. I mean, just look at the daring in that lime green coat, setting a standard for the world’s women, especially older women, to aspire to.

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