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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Color Wheels

I got a web mailer today from ebay telling of all the great new features they are adding for stores. I decided to check out an article about using color in store design, and felt quite disgusted/amused (I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused?) by this color wheel (Scroll down to the very bottom of the page).
Now maybe most people won't notice anything wrong, but if they're trying to enlighten people about design and color, then at least have someone write the article who is knowledgeable about it!
Look at that colorwheel! It's dreadful! There's no difference between green and yellow-green, nor is there a difference between purple and reddish-purple. The violet-blue is way too dark, but there's hardly any hue-shift between it and the blue, just a more deeper tone. It's like someone mixed this up using those horrible tempera paints from grammar school. Remember those? I remember in 7th grade art we were given tempera paints and there was no green. I had to make green with a hansa yellow and an ultramarine blue, and any artist knows that you cannot make green with ultramarine, you need to use pthalo blue, and even then the green isn't the best. My green was a pukey olive and it bugged me to death, but no one gave a damn except me, not even the apathetic teacher.
So I just had to make my own wheel (to the left). Notice how my colors flow into eachother more as they cycle around the wheel. I whipped it out in minutes, and had ebay put a little more thought into this, they could've whipped one out in minutes too if they would've had the foresight to actually have an artist design the page or at least consult one for this tutorial. Geesh.

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Blogger Stan said...

That was one bad color wheel, and I fail to understand what is so hard about seeing color transitions - unless a person is color blind.

12:31 PM  
Blogger Ann said...

It all goes back to what I was discussing in my previous posts...don't have people do jobs when they suck at it! Don't have people with incomprehensible voices do phone support, don't have people with no eye for color create a site about design!

I always hated having to do things for jobs that I knew I sucked at, yet when I knew I could do good at something, it was so hard to get someone to notice my abilities.

Employers suck. This is why I have no desire to go work for someone else again, even if it means working harder for myself in the process.

12:41 PM  

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