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Do any of the problems or concerns that painters have with black art apply to using white on a monitor?
by lmkg 16y ago
Do any of the problems or concerns that painters have with black art apply to using white on a monitor?
- city41 16y agoThat's an interesting question. My hunch is to say no, as color on a monitor is so pure and perfect. It's essentially digital while a painting is analog, really analog. How the pigments that form the various colors interact with each other varies so much. Even just take red for example, there's red paint made with cadmium, some with iron oxide, others with plants, pyrrole, etc. All these different types of red act so differently. Red on a monitor is just defined by 8 bits, typically. But with all that said, this was another lifetime ago for me. I've been a programmer for over a decade now and haven't seriously painted in about that much time, so I'm not the expert I wish I was anymore. I should get back into it.
- abp 16y agoHm, but problems exist from a programmers view, because you get blind by starring at shiny white editor windows constantly. Also, in my opinion, to much white can make a good design look too offensive on a monitor. Decent gray, for example, does much better as a background color, i think?