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This is very cool, thank you! Interestingly the difference between some of these colours is (to my eyes / monitor) ... very little? E.g. chartreuse and lawngr
by signal11 6y ago
This is very cool, thank you!
Interestingly the difference between some of these colours is (to my eyes / monitor) ... very little?
E.g. chartreuse and lawngreen, palegreen and lightgreen, mediumturquoise and darkturquoise, etc.
- jedberg 6y agoOut of curiosity are you male? There are physical differences between men's and women's eyes where men's eyes are better at edge and motion detection and women's eyes are better at detecting the difference between blue and green. Or at least adults are, possibly because of the environment they grew up in (the science is still murky on that one).
- leephillips 6y agoSome women are even tetrachromats, with four different color receptors (it’s pretty rare).
- jedberg 6y agoThat's orthogonal though. Both men and women can be tetrachromats, it's just more common in women (but exceedingly rare in both populations).
- signal11 6y agoYes; thanks for pointing that out, that's an important factor too, I guess.
- munificent 6y agoColor perceptiveness varies surprising widely across people. I took a test a while back and discovered that I'm apparently the color equivalent of a super-taster. I have extremely fine color perception. In the examples you list, lawngreen looks darker, bluer and a little more saturated than chartreuse. Palegreen is much lighter than lightgreen and somewhat more saturated. Mediumturquoise is bluer, darker, and duller than darkturquoise's greenish tint. Note, of course, that your monitor and viewing environment will affect your perception too.