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My theory/commentary on colorblindness, and its effects on sign displays. Basically "everyone is different". Bold colorations, and even gaudy colorations draw the attention of more people. In many cases it just plain fits the bill while in other cases this is just plain poor display of ones design abilities, or a plague of more than average colorblindness.
Myself, coming from a fine art and color study background, find many signs more attractive simply using good color coordination. It is my belief that, everyone has a varied degree of colorblindness, as our eyes have varied amounts of rod/cones (the nerve synapses that pick up intensity and color value in our eyes).... I also believe that no one on this bulletin board views color or combinations of color exactly the same. What conservatively may seem attractive to some, may look very bland to someone who views with less stimulated synapses. These people, by my theory, are the ones that design, dress and live the higher color values on a consistent basis. I tend to design with much less intense color values on the average. This may be attractive to those viewing in the same "color range" as myself, but be totally boring to those with differing colorblindnesses. I find myself spending as much time working at colorations than I do working compositions, maybe because I have very color sensitive eyes. I often feel that this is not the norm, and perhaps at least at times that my designs appear bland to the average. I therefore work towards strong contrasts in my designs to overcome this. I am the guy that will drive a thousand miles to find the color of car that I want to drive. A good percentage of people, don't really care at all...... I'm sure this is not my original theory, though it was designed in my bean. I write this as I sit here mixing my pallate of JD Green, Chocolate, Passion Pink and Schoolbus Yell. Cheers, Bronzeo
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Hi Jack. Yes and at times women will use a more feminine touch if we are in a 'foofie' mood. Also it is important to realize monitors have various hues. My monitor is pretty screwy right now, and the color hues are totally messed up. So what I see as looking good....might look real bad to others.
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i was watchin a documentary program the other night which talked about the fact that sum animals... mostly birds of prey have more rods? well either rods or cones, but anyway, the more of one that you have the less colour you actualy see, but the better you see things in general
as in the birds of prey that have none of the colour ones and so see everything in black n white... shades of grey, but their perception is crystal clear. much, much better than human eyes
men's eyes have less of the colour ones than woman's eyes do and therefore they see less shades of colour.... men say pink, woman say which pink? that sort of thing
the number of rods (im pretty sure it was those ones) directly relates to how 'well' you see and the higher the number the less colour you percieve oh, and the more of those 'black n white' ones the better your perifial vision is too
its a fasinating subject
cheers gail
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Also it is important to realize monitors have various hues. My monitor is pretty screwy right now, and the color hues are totally messed up. So what I see as looking good....might look real bad to others.
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