Re: Color Help

Jim:

Due to differences in monitors, etc. I suspect you will get a lot of
different answers. I could brag about how--with all the graphics I do--my
monitor is calibrated to show the "true" stuff. However--Such pompous
silliness should probably be left to the religious of this world.

All that having been said, using my downloaded "Color Picker" from the old
Netscape site, the color #ff5200 looks pretty doggone "red" on my monitor.
In fact it is pushing into the red from "International Orange". Sometimes
called "Coast Guard Orange" in the United States.

I tried shutting off the room lights to get a more objective view and it
still looks really red. (My room florescent lights are supposed to be 4800
Kelvin.)

What can I say--the client is always right ????

Best wishes
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
www.temercraft.com/
www.newsredding.com/


> 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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