Brown; color is weird

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This video discusses the color brown. Seriously.

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[TechnologyConnections]

IMPORTANT NOTE:
If your display has a dynamic backlight, the color of the square may in fact be changing along with the average image brightness. I underestimated how common this is so I didn't mention it. So, if you're seeing it change - that wasn't me! Those colors in the video file are identical.
And, just so's ya know, there are indeed many browns and not all of them are necessarily derived from orange. As you saw, the Pantone 448C is much more like a very dark yellow. But, to me, the classic *_brown_* is definitely a descendant of orange.
And don't get me started on beige!

[door-chan]

"Hey, what's your eye color?"


" Uhh... *_c o n t e x t u a l o r a n g e_* "

[Jus_Joj]

as a colorblind guy who's got brown hair, the Revelation that brown is just orange, but darker, has actually rocked my world.

[liamrwilkins]

Your demonstration with the colour wheel at 14:00 is by far the best explanation of how language impacts our perception of colour I've ever seen.

[cokebottles]

I was lighting a white wall with RGB lights for a client and they wanted it to be brown (their brand color). It was very difficult to explain to them why it wasn't possible...

[silentsong]

And then there’s the digital artists watching this that knew brown was dark orange all along

[skylernova]

"This works best when in a pitch black room"

Me watching this at 3am:
"It's like I was made for this"

[talibjordan]

The aging wheels cameo caught me extremely off guard but I love both of your channels!

[alecelliott]

I wrote a editorial about the color pink and how I was annoyed by it's unclear categorization for English class once. I mentioned that the only majorly recognized colors that are values of pure colors are pink and brown(which you mentioned in the video.) It's really surprising how much there can be to talk about a single color.

[lordfeish]

The fact that brown is dark orange is actually quite useful if you’re using a paint program or something with that kind of color selector

[whodis]

"I'm black"
no, you are very dark orange

[dreariestcoma]

I've been a color technician using dyes and pigments for a decade and am very familiar with subtractive color.
It was fun to learn more about additive color! Fun fact, with subtractive color, we can achieve a brown out of any two colors that are opposite on the color wheel, like green and red, or orange and purple.
Depending on the strength of the pigment, there is some perfect ratio of the two colors that will achieve some variation of brown.
Cpnsidering orange as we did in the video, I would probably have added just a touch of green to neutralize the redness of the orange. If that shifts me into too much of a yellow space, you could add a very small amount of red (or more orange) to shift it back into a true brown.

[veebeelights]

I love that you talked about real paint mixing compared to light displays, because paint mixing works better with yellow cyan and magenta as primaries, and I always thought it was interesting how digital displays use red green and blue. Its the opposite to what I was taught as an artist.

[gutzbin]

“It’s not actually brown. It’s orange... but darker”

that just sounds like brown with extra steps

[dimitri_tsm]

"Maybe red-yellow.... Rellow?..."

My brain: *YED*

[zyrohnmng]

This video helps so much. I've definitely gotten weird confused looks whenever there was a shade of brown that I couldn't quite tell if it was orange or brown, but others clearly saw it as brown.

I no longer feel crazy

[maxx_]

Having watched Aging Wheels, the joke at the 1:35 mark is all the funnier. These guys have much the same sense of humour XD

[eriklindberg]

The thing that really helped this concept 'click' for me: there's no such thing as gray light. You can dim a white light source but it's always white.

[fear]

Can't wait to see my doctors face when i tell her my stool is dark orange.

[angelaarmstrong]

When painting, if you combine any complimentary colors (blue w/ orange, red w/ green or yellow w/ purple) you’ll get great variations of brown ❤️