In a rainbow, the colors occur in a specific order: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, (indigo), violet. The painted crossing has the red on the wrong side, so it CANNOT be a rainbow.

Benjamin Moore's “Off White Collection” of paint colors has 152 shades of creamy neutrals. Cosmetics firm M.A.C. offers 200 named colors of lipstick, nearly all of them reddish.

It takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. It happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering, named after a British scientist who first ...