Color Names and Pure Water
I had an argument with a web
designer about a color scheme. The color scheme used by the web
designer in a web site could be summarised like this:
I offered an opinion that
shades of dirty blue grey were not ideal, especially when used in
other components of the web design. It looks like a sky from the end
of the world as envisioned by a teenage heavy metal fan, aspiring
satanist. The web designer retorted that the colors were not
dirty blue grey but were mixes of, wait for it,...
- Queen Blue
- Dark Skate Grey
- Japanese Indigo
- Moonstone Blue
- Space Cadet
Now look at the image again,
knowing the names:
Does it look a bit nicer
now? Maybe. But that does not solve the problem (of the dirty grey
blue) because a viewer of the web site would not know the
names of the colors used, and so would not be affected by
them.
Like homeopathy, the magic
doesn't work unless you label it.
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