# Mind blowing facts, from the Atlantic

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**Created:** [December 28, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mind-blowing-facts-from-the-atlantic/1026111 "2025-12-28T03:37:28Z")\
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Which also means that you can’t see it on any computer screen, so any image you find on Wikipedia or anywhere else is an approximation.

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> [@Dr\_Paprika](#):
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> Scientists discovered—or created, depending on your perspective—[a new color](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/04/olo-color-berkeley-teal/682557/) named “olo” this year. (Those who have seen it describe it as a sort of teal or a mix of blue and green.)

Is it possible/likely that someone with dichromacy and inoperable L cones would have already observed this color? Or would they need to have tricolor vision to learn to perceive it?

I read that people with monochromacy only perceive grayscale which implies that the brain needs the three types of cones to map out the colorspace.

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