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Say So Long to Roy G. Biv

Red. Orange. Yellow. Green. Blue. Indigo. Violet. From left-to-right, top-to-bottom, outer-to-inner, this is the color spectrum of the rainbow. Roy G. Biv is the acronym art teachers use to help children remember the sequence of hues that make up the rainbow. Mnemonic devices aside, Roy G. Biv and primary colors have given way to a new era of color-naming beyond …