Re: Futurese: Colours
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 4, 2002, 3:49 |
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:01:27 -0400, Javier BF <uaxuctum@...> wrote:
This JPG image has a lot of very visible compression artifacts, which might
affect the intended appearance. But in any case, there's always going to
appear to be less visual difference in the range between green and yellow,
and more difference between blue and the adjacent colors, as long as you
use the CRT primary colors as your basic colors. Just because the hues may
be evenly spaced in the internal computer representation doesn't mean your
eyes will agree.
Other than artists, not many people will be familiar with the primary
colors used in printing, so having cyan and magenta as basic color
categories would only make sense if there are lots of objects in the world
having those colors. They're certainly not as important as yellow, and
probably less than orange (especially if orange is considered to include
shades of brown that fall into that range of hues). I don't agree entirely
with the idea of the 11 basic color categories that just happen to match
the basic color words in English (if you count "pink" as a basic color,
which at least to me is questionable), but it's based on research with
native speakers of diverse languages using standardized color chips, and it
might at least be worth looking into.
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