This is wrong
The “combination” is just a lower value, here orange-red.
Colors we can see are a combination of value, chroma (called saturation when it’s in a computer) and hue.
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KmlSlmk64@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThey are combination of colors rather than a specific wavelength. (Similar to white, which is combination of all of them)
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Hey, I’m interested
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What we call “colors” are made up of three different things, and the “color” part of it is the least important:
Value: this is how much light it emits, white is at the top, black at the bottom. Thing a black& white photo, there you see the values only.
Chroma, or Saturation is the strength. Low chroma is a vapid or flat color like worn out jeans, a high croma is a powerful color like yellow sunshine.
Example:
Hue is what we usually call “color” (red, green…)
Then you have the “primary” colors, which can be any colors(hues) actually, mix them and you get other colors. All the colors you can mix with your primary colors is called a “gamut”.
Painters might use yellow, red and blue, or yellow magenta and cyan for example. Paint them in a triagle (yellow up etc), then fill in the mixtures (blue + yellow = green) etc and you get a colorwheel!
A 12 color colorwheel:
Now brown, brown is a difficult color, because it’s just orange/orange-red with a low chroma. So how do you create a low chroma if you don’t use a PC? Easy, you mix in some color from the opposite side of the colorwheel!
So, orange is red+yellow, and then a little bit of blue gives you brown.
Add more red and you get that chocolaty brown, add more yellow and it will bemore greenish (with the help of the blue, yellow + blue = green).
Now you can lighten it up a bit with white, or dull it down with black.
Some random information:
Pink for example is just red/magenta with white, but we call it pink and not light red out of convenience.
And gold isn’t a color, all metals (if not like all rusty) acts like a mirror + a color (or only like a mirror) so gold reflects its surroundigs tinted in yellow and that can be a whole range of colors of course.
Hope you liked it!
Flummoxed@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I did! Thank you for this summary; I’ve never understood this very well until now. Whoever downvoted you without commenting deserves a stern talking to.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 weeks ago
Brown is actually dark orange. It just became its own thing when we gave it a distinct name. So people who know more color names really can see more colors.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
lighted-display (like a monitor or TV) of brown is dark orange, yes.
In the actual, real, no the physical world, the one you wake up in before getting on the lighted rectangles, brown is a real color.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Except it isn’t “real” in the sense that it doesn’t correspond to a specific wavelength of light. It is impossible to produce a brown light; the closest you can get is amber. The color brown is context-dependent and only exists in our perception. To display brown on a screen you have to use orange, desaturate it, and make sure it’s darker than its surroundings.
If you pull up a solid brown image on your phone and hold it against a darker background (you may need to turn off the lights), you will see orange.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Right, but in real-life, not in producing a lighted color, just like looking: things are brown. A coffee stain, say.
ReCursing@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
No it’s not. Orangey-brown is kinda dark orange I guess, but greenish brown is certainly not
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
what’s the hexcode for greenish brown?
rtxn@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It doesn’t exist. Nor does brown. It’s all just orange, but with extra context. Here is a video you should watch that will be exploring the color brown.