Re: Color Help

>I need some help to figure out what is wrong.
>
>Basically I need to know if I am color blind.
>
>I am told by someone that this is the color orange.
>
>#FF5200
>
Yep, definitely orange.

>To me the above  looks like red with perhaps the faintest hint of
>orange.
>
>I offered the colors below and they were all rejected as being not
>orange.
>
>#FFA500
Egg yolk yellow (free range egg!)

>#FF9900
Orange, but not strongly so.

>#FF9933
Yellow with a touch of orange

>#FF9966
Pale-ish peach with a touch of yellow
>
>#FF8C00
Golden yellow

#FF7F00
Orange with a touch of yellow.

>I see them as orange, dark orange and orange red.
>
>Your opinions, either way, would be welcome as a project I'm working on
>now has come to an almost complete halt over this.
>
>I know people can disagree about colors and their names. But this time
>the disparity between what I'm saying are hues of a color and what the
>other person says is the correct hue seem to me to be rather widely
>split.

This appears to be so with you and me, Jim; I have some visual 
difficulties but have been told I'm not colour  blind.  After seeing 
the differences between us, I checked my monitor calibration and 
didn't change the settings. The differences don't seem to be 
accountable by Mac users seeing colours a bit lighter than on PCs. I 
guess you just have to make sure your client understands all the 
reasons why people can see colours differently on the web, and go 
with their choice.

Good luck!

Freda


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