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- jcattleThat's pretty cool. In a similar but very different vein: A few years ago I took twenty years of daily satellite imagery and computed the mean color for countries and the world https://www.landshade.com/But in doing that you really do notice how everything concerning colors is just a bit arbitrary. You get raw reflectances from a scientific sensor on a satellite with specific spectral bands and sensitivity within those bands. And then you try and map this scientific sensor to the sensor that is your eyes, to try and emulate what we would actually see if shot up into space.There's some really cool science around that if you're a color nerd: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003442571...
- danielvaughnThe web has its own storied color, albeit a tragic one. Rebecca Purple is a named CSS color, which was added in tribute to Eric Meyer's daughter, who very sadly passed away at a young age. That shade was her favorite color.https://medium.com/@valgaze/the-hidden-purple-memorial-in-yo...
- saltyoutburstFor a word nerd exploration of how colours are defined in dictionaries, check out 'True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color' by Kory Stamper. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237693038-true-color
- jgordTheir VanDyke Brown looks more like a Burnt Sienna to my eyes, but that might just be my screen.You may also enjoy the Chromatopia book : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40554590-chromatopiaThe author produces a very nice range of oil colors under the Langridge brand in Melbourne, downunder... its nice to keep these artisanal practices alive.Would be handy to have the standard pigment codes. Ive been gradually moving away from using heavy metals such as Cadmiums. Haven't found the perfect red, although Napthol Red PR170 and Pyrrole "Ferrari" Red PR254 are pretty close to primary for mixing from a limited palette.Its really surprising how you can get gorgeous brick-red browns and deep purplish blacks from mixing a near primary red and primary blue.
- ur-whaleSearched for teal, couldn't find it ... mmmh.
- plastic041I wanted to check if the information on this page was correct. I started searching and found this site [0], which looks very similar. I thought it was made by the same person, but it's not. It's just another website designed using LLM.One advantage of LLM is that you can quickly and easily generate a "pretty decent" website. However, there is a drawback, that there is a high chance that a page with a very similar design(and similar idea) already exists somewhere.[0]: https://chinesecoloratlas.com/
- nonethewiser
- S3verinThe color display has some texture to it with slightly warying shades. Which one is now the bespoke color? And the AI slop is really offputting.
- lutuspWhy isn't my favorite color on the list: Unforeseeable Fuchsia?
- mmooss> Most of what you can read about historical color on the web has been rewritten three or four times from the same Wikipedia paragraph, with the citations dropped along the way. What you are reading here is an attempt to put the citations back.That implies the entries also are based on the Wikipedia paragraph, though I think the author means they do their own research. The entries I looked at list several high-quality entries in a bibliography at the bottom but don't cite any of the text. Also, I don't know who wrote these - do they have any idea what they are talking about? Is this LLM output?If anonymity ever worked (almost never in scholarship), it may not work anymore due to LLMs.
- gchamonliveDoes the background colour have a history too?
- hiccuphippoThere's no rebeccapurple.
- jmatani do like the concept, though the blatantly claude-tinged "italicized word" visual language undermines the author's credibility w.r.t graphic design history imo
- mm263Terrible AI prose
- anonundefined
- iberatorThis webpage is nonsense.First example I saw was already wrong. COBALT BLUE is not known since 1830 but its ANCIENT.This webpage is some low effort english centric world and wrong and probably just AI slop.