re: [TAN] Is saturated blue inherently dark?
re: [TAN] Is saturated blue inherently dark?
- Subject: re: [TAN] Is saturated blue inherently dark?
- From: Igor Asselbergs <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 00:36:54 +0200
Yes, saturated blue is inherently dark. No question about it. The
darkest colors are found in the blue-violet range. The lightest in the
yellowish range. As for why? I'm not exactly sure. Don't know enough
about the build of the eye to comment on the layers issue. But if you
look at the distribution of the color wavelengths, you might notice that
blue and violet are located at the extremes of our perception. While
yellow is about smack in the middle of it. So I expect an explanation to
be connected with the distribution of wavelengths.
The inherent lightness of colors makes for some interesting perceptional
occurences. Aemelius Müller, in his days professor at the academy of
Winterthur in Switzerland, described in 1943 a formula that could
predict the appreciation of a color-combination. In other words: Müller
was able to predict which combination of colors most people would most
probably like. His system was actually based on the inherent lightness
of color hues.
see: http://www.colorjinn.com/en/6oncolour/taste/1/1.html
Igor Asselbergs, Amsterdam
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