Re: Color Help

by Lori Eldridge <lorield(at)uswest.net>

 Date:  Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:13:23 -0800
 To:  hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
 References:  texas
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Hi Tom

I decided to check this out cause I'm not color blind, my computer 
produces good color and it's a Mac.

All the colors appear to be orange or yellow orange to me--no red at 
all. Maybe it's a PC to Mac problem.

Lori



>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
>
>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
>#FF9900
>#FF9933
>#FF9966
>#FF8C00
>#FF7F00
>
>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.
>
>
>
>--
>
>
>Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
>	''You might as well fall flat on your face as
>	  lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
>    "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
>           elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
>  		- G'Kar  "Survivors"

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