Colours

[guppiecat]

Most of you know that I am colourblind. Because of this, there are often times when I am not quite sure what colour something is. One of the nice things about computers is that I can use colour pickers to get the hex codes so there is no ambiguity (barring calibration issues, of course). Oddly, the first half of my life consisted of people annoying me with "what colour is this? what colour is this?", and the second half consisted of me annoying them with "That's #aa883d". Hex codes are great.

As an example, here is a snippit of the official Color Name Table.

PaleGoldenRod	#EEE8AA		Shades	Mix
PaleGreen	#98FB98		Shades	Mix
PaleTurquoise	#AFEEEE		Shades	Mix
PaleVioletRed	#D87093		Shades	Mix

These are the only colours labeled with the "pale" signifier. Thus, it's a simple matter of doing an average to get the <R,G,B> vector: <C3.4, F0, B0.C>.

Rounding this, we get the code #C3F0B1... or:

Pale

#C3F0B1

Shades

Mix

Since the "Mix" options does colour blending between that which you picked and another colour, #FFFFFF, by default, this link gives you these Whiter Shades of Pale.

	#FFFFFF
	#FCFEFB
	#F9FEF7
	#F6FDF3
	#F3FCEF
	#F0FBEC
	#EDFAE8
	#EAFAE4
	#E7F9E0
	#E4F8DC
	#E1F8D8
	#DEF7D4
	#DBF6D0
	#D8F5CC
	#D5F4C8
	#D2F4C4
	#CFF3C1
	#CCF2BD
	#C9F2B9
	#C6F1B5
	#C3F0B1

Now you know.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If "her" face turns any of those, even if it was at first just ghostly, seek medical care.

[guppiecat]

What if she's a Vulcan?

[mle292.livejournal.com]

That's really neat!

Just so you know, you would be barred from being an electrician, so good thing you didn't pick that career path. Telling the difference between red and green is important, though sometimes dye lots screw things up anyway. I had a box once that had brownish grey wire, and greyish brown wire. Pissed me right off.

[guppiecat]

Oh yes, I know.

I got bit in Electronics class by that one more than once.

It also prevents me from being an astronaut. :(

[mle292.livejournal.com]

If you can read very, very small print, sometimes the wire color is in the printed information on the wire.

It also prevents me from being an astronaut.

I was unaware of that. That's terrible!

[guppiecat]

Technically, I think it may prevent me from being a fighter pilot. But, since when I was kid, that was the major way to become an astronaut, it's effectively the same thing.

Since then, I've been zapped in the eyes with a laser, so I'm double disqualified.