Similarly to red and blue, there's just something about red and green that catches most people's attention. Red and green traffic lights, red and green Christmas colors, redheads with green eyes, Mario and Luigi, etc. In much of the world, this is also red and blue, particularly where Green Is Blue.
This contrast is averted in the 1 out of 8 men and 1 out of 200 women who are red-green colorblind
, and neither color is distinguishable from yellow either.
Red (or similar orange) and green are popular colors to contrast on national flags, often alongside neutral colors (such as white or black) or with in-between color yellow.
Yellow is, in fact, the color created when red and green are combined in the light-based RGB color space. But if you try to combine red and green paints, you get brown.
No relation to The Red Green Show or Green vs. Red. For other color pairings, see Color Contrast.
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Tropes
- Colorblind Confusion: When red/green colorblindness comes into play.
- Healthy Green, Harmful Red: Green is used to represent full health, while red is used to represent low health.
- Once-Green Mars: Mars depicted as having life in the past but not in the present.
- Red/Green Contrast: A popular Color Contrast between green and red.
- Redhead In Green: A character with red hair wearing green clothes.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: When an important character has green eyes and red hair that is meant to make them stand out.
