Might f around and make this a thread where I rate rainbows overall:
This one is 6.5/10
-purple is the big one, which is nonstandard but I don’t mind!
-prob bc “red goes on top” matters more than comparative size; fine
-buuut the blues are ordered wrong according to me and 3yo
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8.5/10
-I basically like it
-I think the slight pastel thing is done well and consistently
-I never love when the purple fully fills in the bottom like that, but 🤷🏽♀️ I see why it happens and don’t necessarily have a better idea for this toy
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Backing up and rating the previous ones
1.2/10
-I hate it
-I really hate it!
-somehow the blue center part that’s not the same as the blue knob makes it even worse
-no purple
-the two yellow and two oranges make me so mad
-I did voluntarily purchase it I guess…
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A recent offender! I like this toy, but whyyyy not switch out one of those oranges?
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5/10
-no purple
-given no purple I think I appreciate the pink bc it tones down the orange
-embraces the chaos by switching orange and yellow is a slight positive for me
-the green and blue both seem too dark?
-gray cloud on white shirt seems a little odd IMO—kinda stormy?
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I bought this shirt for my kid, and I think it’s cute and I like it, but it’s a rainbow with no purple! (Bonus pink though) why??
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Unmodified: 5/10
-no purple
-but it’s not really trying to be a rainbow, so it’s a little less offensive than usual
-fairly pleasantly consistent saturation with the red a different material and more saturated, so it works for me
With my links: 8/10
-I like what I did!
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I added the purple links to this toy that isn’t exactly a rainbow, but has red, orange, yellow, green, and blue
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Made by a child in the park (I was assuming, but I suppose it could have been a parent actually…), one of each color, v wholesome, good shape 10/10
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I get it that orange and purple are the “controversial” colors and I like purple and kinda don’t like orange, but leaving out orange is in some ways objectively worse bc of the gap between red and yellow.
6/10 I guess? The other colors are nice and well (and evenly) saturated
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So this one is weird it has the “every color once but two blues” thing like the stacking toy, and there’s also a pink and also what is even up with the order of the colors. I can’t tell if it’s better or worse than a random 🎲 arrangement would be 🤷🏽♀️ 7.5/10 I guess?
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is it a xylophone? in that case it would make sense since the 8th key would be the next octave up from the first
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why are you looking for purple in rainbows? VIBGYOR doesn't really have a purple in it does it? Indigo is more blue register. Purple is a reddish blue you don't see in real rainbows
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That is also fair. But the canonical rainbows that lack blue don’t have indigo + violet—they typically just stop at blue. If they had IV that would be great, but I think purple is a fine approximation that works well with our language for colors
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