[thelist] Colour survey

well, this is interesting. my ISP is down so I cannot go to the site
to see the color "in action" i.e. in its interaction with other colors
on the page. but speaking in "abstract mode" I would say its
nor brown no green but rather light, "mild" olive. not real olive -
#808000,
not it's nearest match from websafe - #666633, not lighest olive
from this group - #cccc99. something in the middle.
(note - all 4 colors have H-60 - yellow, if S and B in max).
so, what is olive - washed brown, light green, or
"dirty shade of yellow"?

about #003333. its solid parent color is cyan, H-180.
from RGB point of view, this color consist of equal small
parts of green and blue. so being between this two
primary colors, and darkend enough not to see it's parent cyan,
under different conditions it can be seen more green or more blue.

but hey, all this colors (exept "true" olive) are web safe. they
supposed
to look the same on different platforms, monitors, etc.
so maybe it is the question of difference in color perception?

two things urged me to jump in.
first - am learning design, and colors, color theory, color perception
and all this of primary interest for me.
second. recently I had similar problem. on my site bgcolor is #333333.
call it light black, or very dark gray - doesn't matter - it's web safe.
and on my monitor - ViewSonic, 24 bit, 4Mb video -
it looks as it should look ( I hope ;} )
the wierd thing - on my friend's monitor with his 32Mb TNT2 video,
it looks different - in NN it's kinda greenish, in IE it's darker, but
in both browsers color picker shows #303430. and it's dither...
Whathe...?

sorry for such a long post. back to lurk mode.

george.

aardvark wrote:

> > From: "Walker, Matthew" <Matthew.Walker@cdc.org.nz>
> >
> > http://akaroa.com/
> >
> > So tell me, green or brown? You may want to respond offlist and I can
> > post the results back.
>
> i have two answers...
>
>  1. to me, it's brown, but i had a *clearly* brown shirt that both my
> parents always referred to as green... we'd actually fight about it
> because it was obviously brown to me, but to them it was green...
> it was a similar color as your site, only darker...
>
> 2. go to roselli.org, is that green or blue?  it's #003333, so it's equal
> parts both, but at home it's a steel blue, at work it's a steel green
> (?)... monitor settings and lighting conditions are the factor there...

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