Color Perception

[Thruth]

Minkey lol

 

[fxh]

Colour perception is about education and skills as much as anything else.

Due to Ms. fxh and the offspring being visual artistes I have been educated in how to view tones (especially) lines, colours, hues, shades etc. It takes time but there are some simple exercises you can do yourself. If you get out a simple art book on how to paint tonally or a book on drawing, particularly on shading/hatching etc you'll find them. I assume they are floating around the net too.

 

[Russell Street]

BTW, I'll add that the old joke is that males have 16 or 24 color resolution. Luckily, I was exposed to those old J. Crew and Lands' End catalogs growing up and looking at their labeled colors (why are there three kinds of orange? what's the difference?) did force one to notice minor variations.
I know that I've screwed up when you treat a color as a name in pairing, and if it fits some accepted "rule" or notion, it is done in spite of the eyes knowing it is off. I somewhere heard about burgundy shoes great with everything, and for many years wore them with charcoal gray. This looked wrong, but I went with it.
Today, I'm wearing loden colored trousers with a shirt with a minor line of emerald in the pattern. My instinct is that these colors are bad, bad together. But I held them against each other and it was fine so I trusted my eyes.

 

[Robert]

I am a little pissed off now. I completed that test yesterday and achieved 62, a score I put down more to my intake of whiskey and subsequent wobbly eyes, rather than retinal cone malfunctioning. So, I did what any other rational thinking human might, I re-sat the test, stone cold sober,..........big fucking mistake......new score.....77. My colour recognition, it appears, is better when I'm pissed. Fuck that temple of apollo 'know thyself' shit.....ignorance is bliss, and in my case, a mismatched shirt, jacket and tie.

 

[Grand Potentate]

I am a little pissed off now. I completed that test yesterday and achieved 62, a score I put down more to my intake of whiskey and subsequent wobbly eyes, rather than retinal cone malfunctioning. So, I did what any other rational thinking human might, I re-sat the test, stone cold sober,..........big fucking mistake......new score.....77. My colour recognition, it appears, is better when I'm pissed. Fuck that temple of apollo 'know thyself' shit.....ignorance is bliss, and in my case, a mismatched shirt, jacket and tie.

Clearly, you're going to have to take up a 'mimosa at breakfast a day' habit.

 

[Tweedy]

Blue / black to me...