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> The reason most sites are blue is because the human eye is better able to distinguish shades of blue.

Huh? It's shades of yellow/green that we are best able to distinguish. We're not good at blue.



Yup. Mind, color is _really_ complicated. The math to calculate color spaces is completely non-obvious, the eye's reactions to colors is subtle, and the brain seems to interpret colors in interesting ways. (I remember at work, we needed to figure out why a thing was getting _more_ red as we shifted it into the blue spectrum... turns out that's why they call it ultraviolet.)

I'll refer to a cool demonstration of this in action: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891753

It's not scientific, but it's certainly telling.

TL;DR: Green is the color we see well.




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