As I mentioned in other comment, I just literally grabbed the Cuban flag colour with the colour picker tool and used it, I think it’s the same blue tone as in the North Korean flag. I am not a professional and have 0 idea of visual design or whatever it’s called, so there’s no particular meaning to everything, I just went with whatever because that’s how my brain thought it could produce something. Nevertheless, though, if anyone has any idea that could have a meaning, I’m open to ideas. I guess blue represents the sky and that represents freedom? At least the Argentinian and Uruguayan flag seem to be like that, and blue is kind of used in Latin America so there’s that, and tricolour is most of the Latin American flags which are the ones I’ve seen the most.
Regarding that last part I’m open to change it, but I think most people like the design like that so I don’t know.
So, we probably associate blue, red and gold with Latin America, as they’re used by Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, all were part of Gran Colombia and the tricolour was proposed by a revolutionary Francisco de Miranda.
According to wiki he was inspired by a conversation with Goethe of all people to “create in your land a place where primary colors are not distorted.” Of course, Goethe didn’t understand science too well as he thought that we see light in red, blue and yellow (instead of RGB) but yeah, that seems to be the original meaning of this colour combo.
atm I like the middling blue you show below in the thread, but I’d also make the gold a bit wider, like Munrock said - at distance they’d be impossible to see. Oh and I think the mirrored hamsics look a bit weird, I like having a hamsic there, but I feel like the left one is just ‘wrong’ somehow for being flipped.
Of course, Goethe didn’t understand science too well as he thought that we see light in red, blue and yellow (instead of RGB)…
Does the human eye see color in varying intensities of red, green, and blue? I always thought that was just a technical limitation of TV/computer screens and LEDs. For instance, I recall a developer coworker of mine telling me that any brown you see on a computer screen isn’t true brown, only an approximation.
So, it’s not identical for every person (even discounting people with various forms of colour blindness or tetrachromats who have a 4th type of cone cell) but most humans have trichromatic vision, 3 types of cone cells, which have a peak sensitivity to 3 different wavelengths of light - roughly what we perceive as red, green and blue (they actually are like a bell curve over a range of frequencies/wavelengths, but the peaks are rgb)
I don’t know the exact explanation for the brown thing, but yeah I believe I saw a Technology Connections vid about that a few years ago. The other colour monitors have a hard time with is magenta, can’t do that one I believe. I never really looked into the history of why they chose rgb for colour displays, but I would guess maybe it’s because that’s how our vision works?
I never really looked into the history of why they chose rgb for colour displays, but I would guess maybe it’s because that’s how our vision works?
From what I understand, RGB are the primary colors for mixing different wavelengths of light to produce other colors, so it makes sense that it would more directly map with what the eye’s cones detect.
The RYB that Goethe was talking about are primary colors for mixing different pigments, so paint or ink instead of directly emitting different wavelengths of light. I’m pretty sure the technology to emit specific wavelengths of light didn’t exist at Goethe’s time, but the pigment mixing way of getting different hues had been around for a long time, so it’s not surprising that he would think that’s how eyes work as well. People’s ideas are going to be shaped by the dominant ideas of the time and all that.
Certainly true, no one had figured out electronic lights yet, I guess Newton had already shown the component spectrum of light centuries before this.
As for rgb being just how light works, I don’t think that’s true - other animals have cones different peak sensitivities to us, bees for instance have one type of cone that lets them see in the near-UV. I don’t think there’s anything preferred about rgb, they’re just the colours suited to (most) human vision
Okay, so I think the one you like and who everyone seems to like at least in its basic idea is the one to go, I think I’m going to create another one with a canton or something like that as another option and I’ll create another thread where people can vote better since this one is getting a little cluttered.
As I mentioned in other comment, I just literally grabbed the Cuban flag colour with the colour picker tool and used it, I think it’s the same blue tone as in the North Korean flag. I am not a professional and have 0 idea of visual design or whatever it’s called, so there’s no particular meaning to everything, I just went with whatever because that’s how my brain thought it could produce something. Nevertheless, though, if anyone has any idea that could have a meaning, I’m open to ideas. I guess blue represents the sky and that represents freedom? At least the Argentinian and Uruguayan flag seem to be like that, and blue is kind of used in Latin America so there’s that, and tricolour is most of the Latin American flags which are the ones I’ve seen the most.
Regarding that last part I’m open to change it, but I think most people like the design like that so I don’t know.
So, we probably associate blue, red and gold with Latin America, as they’re used by Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, all were part of Gran Colombia and the tricolour was proposed by a revolutionary Francisco de Miranda.
According to wiki he was inspired by a conversation with Goethe of all people to “create in your land a place where primary colors are not distorted.” Of course, Goethe didn’t understand science too well as he thought that we see light in red, blue and yellow (instead of RGB) but yeah, that seems to be the original meaning of this colour combo.
atm I like the middling blue you show below in the thread, but I’d also make the gold a bit wider, like Munrock said - at distance they’d be impossible to see. Oh and I think the mirrored hamsics look a bit weird, I like having a hamsic there, but I feel like the left one is just ‘wrong’ somehow for being flipped.
Does the human eye see color in varying intensities of red, green, and blue? I always thought that was just a technical limitation of TV/computer screens and LEDs. For instance, I recall a developer coworker of mine telling me that any brown you see on a computer screen isn’t true brown, only an approximation.
So, it’s not identical for every person (even discounting people with various forms of colour blindness or tetrachromats who have a 4th type of cone cell) but most humans have trichromatic vision, 3 types of cone cells, which have a peak sensitivity to 3 different wavelengths of light - roughly what we perceive as red, green and blue (they actually are like a bell curve over a range of frequencies/wavelengths, but the peaks are rgb)
I don’t know the exact explanation for the brown thing, but yeah I believe I saw a Technology Connections vid about that a few years ago. The other colour monitors have a hard time with is magenta, can’t do that one I believe. I never really looked into the history of why they chose rgb for colour displays, but I would guess maybe it’s because that’s how our vision works?
From what I understand, RGB are the primary colors for mixing different wavelengths of light to produce other colors, so it makes sense that it would more directly map with what the eye’s cones detect.
The RYB that Goethe was talking about are primary colors for mixing different pigments, so paint or ink instead of directly emitting different wavelengths of light. I’m pretty sure the technology to emit specific wavelengths of light didn’t exist at Goethe’s time, but the pigment mixing way of getting different hues had been around for a long time, so it’s not surprising that he would think that’s how eyes work as well. People’s ideas are going to be shaped by the dominant ideas of the time and all that.
Certainly true, no one had figured out electronic lights yet, I guess Newton had already shown the component spectrum of light centuries before this.
As for rgb being just how light works, I don’t think that’s true - other animals have cones different peak sensitivities to us, bees for instance have one type of cone that lets them see in the near-UV. I don’t think there’s anything preferred about rgb, they’re just the colours suited to (most) human vision
Okay, so I think the one you like and who everyone seems to like at least in its basic idea is the one to go, I think I’m going to create another one with a canton or something like that as another option and I’ll create another thread where people can vote better since this one is getting a little cluttered.