[thelist] Colour survey
Steve Maxey
smaxey at bcr.com
Wed May 10 22:39:06 2000
At 12:11 PM 5/11/00 +1200, you wrote:
>Hey, here's something weird. I recently constructed a CF site (I think I had
>it critiqued on this list) called
>
>http://akaroa.com/
It depends on monitor settings and what it shares the screen with.
I use the same color frequently. Surrounded by real greens, it looks brown.
Next to the gray of a browser, and with the blue accents on your page, it
looks green. Also, it looks greener on Windows and browner on Mac.
You forget. Color and hue are not determined in a vacuum. Our perception of
a color depend heavily on what surround it