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Good afternoon, all,
I have been thinking about colours and the different shades of colours, when I was
a child there didn’t seem to be as many different shades of colours.
When it comes to primary
colours even, they vary like with traditional art/painting they are red, yellow,
blue, these are the primary colours taught in many schools.
When it comes to digital
screens the colours are red, green, blue. These match the three types of cone
cells in your eyes, which is why screens use them.
Then we have the colours
used in printing they are cyan, magenta, yellow, black. Printers add black (K)
to make CMYK for deeper shadows.
However, compared to
when I was a child there now seems to be an unknown number of shades of
different colours. Once there seemed to be only about 6 different shades of
each colour.
When we think of shades,
we think of different shades of the primary colours.
Am I the only person
who feels this was how it was.
I have enough trouble telling the difference between normal colour names like violet, purple, lilac and plum, let alone exotic names like aubergine , mauve and iris.
ReplyDeleteYeah me too
DeleteSo many different colours these days with many of them having 2 names, now that's confusing.
ReplyDeleteI agree with that
DeleteI remember loving the colors in the crayon boxes, Jo-Anne. Nothing fancy about them!
ReplyDeleteMe too
DeleteIt's so hard picking out paint colors - too many choices
ReplyDeleteYeah there are so many choices and so many that look the same with different names
DeleteI grew upwith the 64-color Crayola box. I never thought they would change , but grok tells me at least 8 and maybe 12 (depending on your definition) have changed since then
ReplyDeleteYeah why do things like that have to change nothing wrong with the colours they had
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