More sensible than the color wheel
Jan. 23rd, 2025 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nancylebovhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXDCQjeM8Hk&ab_channel=ColorNerd
The color wheel misses a good bit of the point about colors because some hues seem a lot brighter than others.
The video points out that a lot of the effect of color is related to apparent lightness/darkness and intensity of hue rather than anything like spacing around an evenly divided wheel.
Some of the work on real perception of colors goes back to the 80s. I've seen those asymmetric three dimensional charts, but not thought about them. What were you taught about color? When?
Is there color theory which starts with what people like (either over the lang haul or popular at a time) rather than with a theory about colors?
I really appreciate it when a new and strongly plausible theory comes along.
The color wheel misses a good bit of the point about colors because some hues seem a lot brighter than others.
The video points out that a lot of the effect of color is related to apparent lightness/darkness and intensity of hue rather than anything like spacing around an evenly divided wheel.
Some of the work on real perception of colors goes back to the 80s. I've seen those asymmetric three dimensional charts, but not thought about them. What were you taught about color? When?
Is there color theory which starts with what people like (either over the lang haul or popular at a time) rather than with a theory about colors?
I really appreciate it when a new and strongly plausible theory comes along.
