Imagine my surprise when I learned I was seeing the Leaping Salmon colors "wrong."

I am specifically "protanomalous." That means I don't have enough red receptors. Red doesn't "pop" for me and it tends to fade out into blends, which is why it gets confused with green.

I was under the impression that Leaping Salmon was in fact blue and green rather than blue and muted red/brown. So I went and pulled every image I could find of the tartan and put them into the Paint program on my laptop. And used the color picker tool to isolate the hues so the computer could tell me what was what. Mind blown. I think this happened because many similar tartans (basically anything derived from Black Watch) have a green background with central blue squares. So subconsciously, I made the assumption that Leaping Salmon was similar. Knowing what the computer tells me, I actually do start to perceive the "redness." Even in color perception, which intuitively feels completely objective, the power of suggestion can be intense.

This is the tartan version of the "Is the dress blue or white?" from a few years ago. Colorblind people go through their entire lives like this.

I'm still going to get this tartan, but will just be a little more careful in assembling outfits!