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Were the colors off as well? I have bought clothes from online retailers and the colors looked different in person.
by atomical 10y ago
Were the colors off as well? I have bought clothes from online retailers and the colors looked different in person.
- solatic 10y agoRetailers don't have much of an incentive to accurately portray color in online catalogs. It's one thing to shill out lots of money for high-color-accuracy monitors, automatic color/light calibrators, and high-color-accuracy printers - for print materials, since the color printed is what the customer will actually see (excepting people with color blindness...). But for online catalogs, the retailer doesn't control the color accuracy of the customer's computer or phone screen, so most of the time, the customer won't see the accurate colors anyway. So why bother?
- PaulHoule 10y agoModern plastic clothes often don't have much variation in color. Go to the Salvation Army sometime, where they often sort clothes by color, and you will particularly notice that almost everything red is made with the exact same dye.
- Nomentatus 10y agoIt's also true that colors in between the three frequencies that our eye's cones can easily detect cannot be accurately reproduced by a computer monitor. Yet these colors are great attention-getters for just that reason - you never see them on TV (which abstracts and exaggerates the limits of human cones); so fashion tends to gravitate toward those "in between" colors. Modern flower breeds also bend toward these colors, for the same reason, and artists for the last century have adored them as well - making it awfully hard to buy an accurate reproduction of many or most paintings.