Shades of Color
 

Found this on the web today, and I must say: we live in a colorful world!

How many of these can you distinguish?

http://www.photodump.com/direct/night/color.jpg

Do you just love colors or are you thinking of redecorating? Most of these are just variations of the main colors of the rainbow. Who spent the time to name all of them?

is that in jpg?
do you have it in another format? :P

I second that. The quality of that pic sucks. Sort of looks like you MSPainted it.
I'm not sure whether the ones that I can't differentiate are because of the quality or not. I'd like to see the "white" ones closer, because where they are now, they're too far apart to compare.

Unfortunately, I found that one online, and that is the only format I have. Of course, all colors are just variations of the main colors of the rainbow, or rather, some combination of red, yellow and blue, nonetheless I find it rather interesting, redecorating or not, that there are so many shades of color and a specific word associated with each. In some languages, there are far fewer words to distinguish colors.

In some languages, there are far fewer words, period. English is one of (if not the) most verbose languages.

Some of those look like duplicates to me and are indistinguishable, such as Cyan/Aqua, Magenta/Fuschia, and Light Blue/Powder Blue. Whether this is a function of the quality of the image or me not having enough cones in my eyes I am not sure.

I was thinking of another way of looking at colours . each person seems to recognize the same colour as the same thing .. for example i see blood as red .. so do you . but the thing is that i may actually see the colour as blue RELATIVE to you , so what you see as red i see as blue , but i CALL it red because i've been taught to call it red .. so actually we may never know if we all really see the same colour.

Yeah, I've thought of that possibility too, but then decided it's highly unlikely because the chemical mechanism for recognizing different colors is the same for everybody.

Lisa Simpson: Okay, I'd like 25 copies in canary, 25 in goldenrod, 25 in saffron, and 25 in paella.
Clerk: OK, 100 yellow.

Why do you mock me so!?!?

oh, and by the way, I'm colour-blind

Pft. Get a hold of a colour sample booklet from your local paint store, that's more than enough to make anyone cry. Or a sample of stage lighting filters. Absurd amounts, and you can double or triple them to get even more colours. At the end of the day, 90% of the lamps will have either the peach coloured or the light blue one.

Don't know about the US, but in the UK, we have legislation that requires all websites to be accessible. That means colour blindness friendly too and it's helping drive a refreshment of most of the uk's websites. Good for business.
If you want to make some money, set up a Web Accessibility consultancy.

Here's a good link about the effects on a site for a colour blind person:
http://www.iwss.ilstu.edu/tips/colorblind.shtml

And the good old Visibone site. Great reference for all things colour.
http://www.visibone.com/
A downloadable pop-up: http://www.visibone.com/popups/
http://www.visibone.com/color/card_800.gif

Compared to a colour blind recognition chart:

http://www.visibone.com/colorblind/deutanfigure.jpg

Sorry for the size. Anyone tell me the code for VBB forums for width, height?

color is culturally distinct. So you could have two colors that seem obviously different in our culture, but in another they have the same name for both colors.. and by that I don't just mean two different shades of yellow. (though I really liked that example)

It just reiterates for me how amazing human sight really is that we can distinguish this sort of shit.

Being color blind is a pain in the ass sometimes. Most people have no clue what it is like, they act like all you can see is black and white.

Is there any way you can explain it? Im quite interested in what this is like.