What are the colours that you see in a rainbow?

The normally accepted rainbow colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. But everyone sees things a little differently.

The colors you see in the rainbow are actually red orange yellow green blue indigo and violet. The difference between indigo and blue is that indigo is a color that looks like a cross between blue and purple. The rainbow is the same as the visible light spectrum because when you see a rainbow it is just refracted white light (which is a combination of all colors in the spectrum) that then appears spread into the different colors. Purple is not part of the rainbow because it is a combination between red and blue while violet is a distinct color of its own just as indigo is. The spectrum is said to be distinct colors but those are just the main colors we use to distinguish and define the spectrum at 7 intervals, it is really composed of those colors with mixed colors in-between as is the rainbow.

Nobody actually answered the question that was asked. Janet at least said that everyone sees things a little differently. But she, like everyone else, refused to say what she actually saw.

For the record the colours I saw in the primary band were Red, Orange, Yellow, Cyan, Blue and Mauve. There was no Green and it was definitely Mauve not Violet. In the tertiary band just inside, there was a hint of Orange followed by Yellow and Green. Presumably the Red of the tertiary band was covered by the Violet of the primary band causing it to appear Mauve.

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Red, Orange, Yellow , Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet are the colors considered to make up a rainbow.

A rainbow is composed of the entire spectrum of colors of visible light, from the longest wavelength, red, to the shortest wavelength, violet.