Do you see different colours to others?

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Sometimes when I see certain colours everyone else sees it as a different colour!

For example when I see blue everyone else sees green!

Can anyone else relate?

Sounds more like blue/green colour blindness? Have you checked this out?

Hmm... I always thought it was some sort of sight sense weird thing...

I'll check it out sometime.

Possible reasons:

1.You can see more colors than everyone else.
2.You are color blind and can see less colors than everyone else.
3.You have trouble remembering the correct names of colors.
4.You always wear a special kind of sunglasses.
5.You are absolutely unaware of differences in lamp hues and lighting conditions.

Do you agree with the names of these colors?

I am red green colorblind too.

it's an odd burden to carry.

I HIGHLY recommend you get an eye doctor to check you, just to be sure.

And research it out too.

The orange and orange/red look the same to me.

I read an interesting article recently that some people, mainly women, have an extra "cone" in their retina. The standard cones are red, green and blue and I forget what colour the fourth cone detected. Apparently this was why women can be more discerning about colours than men.

How does this differ from color blindness?

ruveyn

There is no way the blue-green has any green in it. It is just blue.

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I can see how you can have that impression as I almost would agree, but I got a magnifying glass to look at the monitor with, and the green pixels are definitely lighting up a lot brighter than the blue ones are there!

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@MADDUCK: I can read it and it's not very nice!

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It looks blue to me, too, but I know my laptop monitor is skewed to blue-purple because in black-and-white pictures all the greys look indigo.

Nope, for one I say navy blue instead of blue green. Red-orange looks like red to me too. Orange-yellow looks like orange.
Either I see less colours or I just assign them different names. I went to art school when I was younger and got used to referring to most colours as cool and warm.

Many people disagree as to where blue ends and green begins. I think it's mainly a labelling thing. Different cultures have different boundaries between colours; I see no reason why these boundaries can't shift between individuals as well.

well.....
The way I like to explain color blindness is like this:

Picture that you were born with blue cello film (saran wrap) over your eyes. And you learned colors based on that palette. You cannot remove it and have no frame of reference (other than black) to use to explain how a color looks. I se colors differently than you do.

People would ask me, "What does this look like to you?" There is NO way to answer that question.

Once people understand that, it makes it easier.

I also tend to give directions based on numbers or descriptions, not by color.

For example, I will never say, "Turn right at the teal house, and then left at the purple one, and I'm in the third red one on the left."

i'm a painter and the chart above is correct in terms of the mixes. it all depends on tints and colour-mixes. when you work with colour like i do, it becomes second nature to break down specific colours in terms of what their constituent colour parts are.
one also must remember that the "look" of a colour is very contextual. the way we see a colour is highly dependent upon what colours are next to it. one colour alters dramatically depending on what colours lie next to it.

colour theory operates as an essential component of art and visual communication. unfortunately most art schools don;t really teach it much these days and so most artists have a fairly limited visual/chromatic language to work from.


it is a very complex science actually and there are multiple colour harmony theories and approaches to colour. the basic colour chart above is such a basic and tiny segment of the potentials of chromacy and tone and tint.

you start witha basic colour wheel above with the primaries and secondaries and tertiaries, and then you start investigating colour harmonics systems to evoke mood or lack thereof and then stepping it up a notch with the inclusion of discordants. i could go on and on.....

you may have the slight impression i am about to start a special interest monolgue...so i shall stop now before i have you all walking backwards and away from me.....

I print, and to me it is the yellow that has differances.

How much yellow seen is blue or green,

I have a hard time reading yellow text.

In printing it is Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black.

Standard colors are defined as a percentage of each.