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Rather offtopic, but isn't RGB a very unsuitable color space for communicating with people? HSV seems like a much better colorspace for talking about color.
by StavrosK 6y ago
Rather offtopic, but isn't RGB a very unsuitable color space for communicating with people? HSV seems like a much better colorspace for talking about color.
- klodolph 6y agoHSV isn't really its own colorspace, it's just an RGB colorspace that’s been twisted around. If you want to communicate colors with people, I think your main choice is to either use color names (e.g. light teal, dark red) or Pantone.
- yoz-y 6y agoWhile saturation and brightness (value is probably a weird term for most) are explainable and straightforward, even if you explain what hue means, I doubt most people would be able to intuitively reason about it. I use HSV all the time but I have absolutely no idea how a HSV colour would look like, over time I have an intuition about RGB though. Where I was growing up though, most kids would have an intuition if you were talking about red, blue, yellow, which were the colours we used to paint all the time.
- StavrosK 6y agoHuh, really? I find it much harder to reason about what 30% blue, 20% green, 90% red makes than about what 30% saturated, 20% bright green makes.