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is your blue my blue? (jlai.lu)
submitted 1 week ago by inlandempire@jlai.lu to c/artdesign@jlai.lu
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https://ismy.blue/

Two years ago i shared this website where you try and determine when a shade is either blue or green.

Posting it again because lemmy has grown quite a bit since then, maybe we have more people that havent tried it!

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[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

FWIW, I'm not sure that tracks entirely, and that's accounting for my own years training in various analog and digital art media. For most US English-speaking humans (if not universally^1^, minus linguistic^2,^ ^3^ and biological^4^ differences, [per Oklab^5^]), the modern understanding of subtractive color^6^ (ie. [reflected] vs additive [light]) holds that :

  • "Primary" blue == "proper" blue— it's in the name, heh. ☺️
  • Navy & Royal are near neighbors, differing in both shade and saturation;
  • Robins egg, sky, and electric mostly differ by shade and slightly in hue (+luminance/vibrance for electric), and
  • Turquoise, ironically^7^, is nearly centered between primary blue & secondary green, while the stone is historically renowned for its incredible vibrance in its chromatic variance. (blue to yellow^8^)

It's crazy out there in color land! 🤣