for the colour challenged

[brid]

Cool website for the colour challenged .......yeah well for me anyway lol. It also has settings so normal sighted people can see how colours vary for people with varying degrees of colour blindness.

Or just play with the colour schemes

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

[Spaceman]

wow that's neat. that will come in handy.

[Shade]

Originally Posted by Spaceman

wow that's neat. that will come in handy.

like Spaceman said.. :))

[Helm]

that IS cool

[winnierose]

I haven't been this excited for a while Brid, thankyou so much for sharing. X

[Ron Francis]

That visual simulation of colour blindness is interesting.

I have a problem with the basic idea of their complementary colour schemes though, which is everything after the first mono one.
Their colour wheel is for pigment, not light. For example, they have red and green as opposite, but in light, red and cyan are opposite.
If you look at something red, the after image will be cyan, not green, and if you add cyan and red light, you will get white.

I thought that the whole idea was to have a complete scheme in that your eye is not wanting for any colour. That is, all the colours add up to white (or neutral).

So what is the basis for presuming that these schemes are harmonic?

[inkgal8290]

yhanks birdy gal....most enlightening

[brid]

Can't really answer your question Ron.

My grasp of colour theory sucks.

All I can think is that they are using the RGB colour pallet (web safe/related I guess) and not a CYMK and I'm a painter so I use pigment but I need the numbers of the colours (Art spectrum D526, P540 etc or for web purposes #FFFF etc) as what I see as a colour is different to the norm. (So I guess I paint by numbers. lol)

I suppose to have a true representation of what a colour wheel is, would be nigh impossible to reproduce as it would depend on how the physical colours where mixed, printed or emitted and true colour is not a tangible/physical thing as you say, it is light.