Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You – Ryan Moulton's Articles
There are colors that I want to show you, but I can’t. They exist in the real world. You probably saw some of them today, but I can’t show them to you on a screen. A digital photograph can’t capture them, and your screen can’t display them. No game you’ve ever played has contained them. Unless you have specialized equipment, they are entirely absent from the digital world.
Most of them are cyans. On screens we live a life starved of cyans. It is shocking when you see one in person. They seem…
I’ve read articles on color spaces before and was aware of limitations with digital screens but this was the clearest explanation I’ve read. I love that it focuses on the unique colors of the natural world, both that we can see and some we can’t. If you haven’t heard of the structural ways some bird feathers get their color, there’s a section on that too. It will definitely get me to pay more attention to the greens and blues in the forest, birds, water, and even traffic lights.
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