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Re-Approaching Color (2018)

62 points by firloop 7y ago

Causality1 7y ago
I'm surprised they're thinking this hard about color and yet still slathering that repulsive hot pink everywhere.
- IMTDb 7y ago
  The designers/engineers probably have the constraint of having to make everything work with the "repulsive hot pink", which requires a lot of work.
sp332 7y ago
This is an interesting color wheel. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*F2Pd2Mix6PiSEF2xFbdu8w.png https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*F2Pd2Mix6PiSEF2xF... The space between red and blue has been expanded (four colors between) and between yellow and green has been shrunk (only two colors between). So the opposite of Red is now Mint instead of Green.
- tobr 7y ago
  Depends on what color wheel you compare it to. I see it as a pretty reasonable compromise between the traditional 4 primary colors (red-yellow-green-blue) and the 6 primary colors of RGB (red-yellow-green-cyan-blue-magenta). Their “mint” lies between green and cyan, the two complementary colors of red depending on which primaries you use.
- tux1968 7y ago
  I'm just on a low-end laptop here without color correction, but that "Yellow" looks very orange to me. Just curious if it's the same for you? Maybe it's time to invest in a better laptop screen here.
  - saagarjha 7y ago
    It's significantly more red than green, so I don't think it's your laptop screen.
  - snailmailman 7y ago
    Looks like a mustard-y yellow on my screen. Definitely a darker shade of yellow but not very orange to me.
  - jacobolus 7y ago
    That yellow is close to neutral yellow, but the “red” is quite orangish, the green is quite yellowish (this picture’s “mint” is still slightly yellowish), and the blue is probably a tad on the purple side. They also have a really weird definition of “pink”.
ken 7y ago
> Blue & yellow hues using the same method. The blue set provides us quite a few usable shades where as the yellow set becomes unusable early on. What do they mean when they say a color is "usable" or "unusable"? All the colors in this image look fine to me.
- brianpgordon 7y ago
  I assume they mean that the darker shades of yellow look like puke.
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62 points by firloop 7y ago

Causality1 7y ago

I'm surprised they're thinking this hard about color and yet still slathering that repulsive hot pink everywhere.

IMTDb 7y ago
The designers/engineers probably have the constraint of having to make everything work with the "repulsive hot pink", which requires a lot of work.

sp332 7y ago

This is an interesting color wheel. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*F2Pd2Mix6PiSEF2xFbdu8w.png https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*F2Pd2Mix6PiSEF2xF... The space between red and blue has been expanded (four colors between) and between yellow and green has been shrunk (only two colors between). So the opposite of Red is now Mint instead of Green.

tobr 7y ago
Depends on what color wheel you compare it to. I see it as a pretty reasonable compromise between the traditional 4 primary colors (red-yellow-green-blue) and the 6 primary colors of RGB (red-yellow-green-cyan-blue-magenta). Their “mint” lies between green and cyan, the two complementary colors of red depending on which primaries you use.
tux1968 7y ago
I'm just on a low-end laptop here without color correction, but that "Yellow" looks very orange to me. Just curious if it's the same for you? Maybe it's time to invest in a better laptop screen here.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  It's significantly more red than green, so I don't think it's your laptop screen.
- snailmailman 7y ago
  Looks like a mustard-y yellow on my screen. Definitely a darker shade of yellow but not very orange to me.
- jacobolus 7y ago
  That yellow is close to neutral yellow, but the “red” is quite orangish, the green is quite yellowish (this picture’s “mint” is still slightly yellowish), and the blue is probably a tad on the purple side. They also have a really weird definition of “pink”.

ken 7y ago

> Blue & yellow hues using the same method. The blue set provides us quite a few usable shades where as the yellow set becomes unusable early on. What do they mean when they say a color is "usable" or "unusable"? All the colors in this image look fine to me.

brianpgordon 7y ago
I assume they mean that the darker shades of yellow look like puke.
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