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Colors are can be subjective and somewhat politicized even when there's a written description. It's kind of like how every culture tends to color Jesus to be mo
by sct202 6y ago
Colors are can be subjective and somewhat politicized even when there's a written description. It's kind of like how every culture tends to color Jesus to be more similar to the local people, even though everyone knows he's from the middle east.
I might call someone blond with blue eyes, but someone else might describe the same person hair with light brown with green eyes. If we had third person choose which colors represented the descriptions, they might pick completely different colors based on what they thought blond or light brown meant.
- brobinson 6y agoWe know what colors some statues originally had: https://art-sheep.com/the-true-colours-of-greek-and-roman-statues-by-archaeologist-vinzenz-brinkmann/ https://art-sheep.com/the-true-colours-of-greek-and-roman-st... Caligula looks to be on point based on the restoration of his original colors in that article. To your second point, that reminded me that Japan's traffic signals use a different color "green" (looks more blueish) than the rest of the world and they have a common, named color that doesn't really map to blue or green in the rest of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ao_(color) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ao_(color)