Spectra

A colour, to a computer, is nothing more than a collection of numbers – without soul, subjectivity or emotion.  Humans on the other hand perceive colour in so many ways you would need to be a chemist, biologist, neurologist, psychologist and philosopher all rolled into one to appreciate the impact it has on our daily lives. We most generally encounter man made colour in two fundamentally differing ways:  On electronic display screens (computers, phones, TVs, etc) where the colour is the result of projected or emitted light In printed forms, where the colour is a result of pigments, dyes or whatever else is placed on the printing surface (substrate) RGB colour RGB colour is what you are most likely looking at right now (unless you have printed this page on paper!). RGB colour is made up of Red, Blue, and Green light. Where colours mix, their waveforms merge to create secondary colours. Computers generally display colour onscreen using a pallette o...

C o l o u r Is of course, simply the way we describe light of different wavelengths. To put it in scientific terms, however, The range of visible light that humans can see with approximately 130 million light sensitive cells. Different colors, such as red and orange, and other invisible spectrum's such as infrared light, move around in waves of electromagnetic energy. The human eye is capable of seeing only light with wavelengths between 380 and 750 nano-meters. For example, the visible spectrum begins with the wavelengths that we call violet, between 380 and 450 nm, then moves on to blue, green, yellow, and orange, and ends with what we call red, between 590 and 750 nm. When you look at someone’s red shirt, for instance, that shirt will be absorbing or scattering wavelengths of light lower than 590 nm, so those waves will not reach your eyes. But a red shirt will be reflecting some wavelength between 590 and 750 nm, which your eyes process as red. The trou...

It’s “lilac”, not light purple. Just like it’s “magenta”, not dark pink.     Share this post with an art-lover.

“Comic sans” Love or Hate ? In 1995 Microsoft released the font   Comic Sans   originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built. While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a   few specific instances , our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans.  Comic Sans was designed because when I was working at Microsoft I received a beta version of Microsoft Bob. It was a comic software package that had a dog called Rover at the beginning and he had a balloon with messages using Times New Roman.   Comic Sans was NOT designed as a typeface   but as a solution to a proble...