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Category: Color

  • Did Van Gogh have protanomal color deficiency?

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    About 8 percent of male human beings, and a much smaller 0.5 percent of females, have some form of color vision deficiency, commonly called “color blindness”, in which the perception of colors is limited or altered in some way compared to the general population. It has been suggested at times that Vincent van Gogh’s unusual…

  • James Gurney on Gamut Masking

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    A gamut is a range of colors. More specifically it is a range of colors that can be created or reproduced on a particular device or with a certain set of beginning colors. Those working with print reproduction are very familiar with the concept of the CMYK gamut, or the range of colors that can…

  • Cartoon Color Wheel

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    Here’s a fun notion; the Slate Magazine blog, Culturebox, has put together an interactive color wheel of cartoon characters arranged by their hue (and, correctly enough, by intensity, as indicated by our grayish friends at the center of the wheel). In the original, you can mouse over the characters for identification. [Via Cartoon Brew]

  • Wikipedia Color Resources

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    There are lots of color resources on the web, for artists, designers and others, but an often overlooked one is Wikipedia, the venerable user-edited online encyclopedia. Whatever you may say about the reliability of the information on Wikipedia (or from Britannica, or any other single resource, for that matter), I rarely consider a source like…

  • Confident Color

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    This is one of those books for which the binding is key. Nita Leland’s Confident Color: An Artist’s Guide to Harmony, Contrast and Unity is published by venerable art instruction book publisher North Light Books. Like Leland’s previous book, The New Creative Artist (which I reviewed here) and Bert Dodson’s Keys to Drawing with Imagination…

  • Color Vision & Art

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    Color Vision & Art is an online feature on WebExhibits, which describes itself as an “interactive museum of science, humanities and culture”. The feature is a series of related articles, accompanied by images and simple Flash interactives, that explore the relationship of human color perception to the uses of color in art. The feature is…