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Has the world become less colourful?
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#132I'm a man and I like colors. I have a red car, red shoes and colorful jackets. None of them are especially remarkable, they just have colors on them. I get remarks from colleagues about my shoes, I get remarks from random people on the street about my jacket. These people don't tend to be very positive about it, yet they feel the need to say something about my appearance, because I wear colorful stuff. I feel like pa…
> I'm glad I don't care too much about the opinions of other people
I think there is a small minority of people that either want attention, or don't mind it.
The rest of the world wants to avoid drawing attention to themselves. This is true for both positive and negative attention. I don't think it's so much about what others think, I think it's just that attention is uncomfortable for most people, and they do what they can to blend in as to avoid drawing attention and feeling uncomfortable.
If the world were more colorful, this may mean not wearing neutral colors, as this would now stand out and likely draw attention.
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#133“Therefore in 1909 I announced one morning, without any previous warning, that in the future we were going to build only one model, that the model was going to “Model T,” and that the chassis would be exactly the same for all cars, and I remarked: ‘Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.’ I cannot say that any one agreed with me. The selling people could not of course see…
> Beside, color is all in your mind. Out of it, it's just electromagnetic waves.
It's like saying that food is just nutrients, or sound/music just vibrations. Color is an experience.
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#134The arrival of widely available colour film photography and subsequent pervasiveness of bland JPEG renders changed how humans perceive colour (and likely how they design with colour). Until colour photography, humans didn’t really have a fixed shared anchor as to what the world looks like in general—including colours. All we had was words and paintings. With consumer colour photography, suddenly it seems as if we hav…
> All we had was words and paintings.
If by "painting" you also mean things like lithographs[1] and magic lantern[2] shows and glazed ceramics and dyes used in textiles and rugs, then sure, all we had were words and paintings. I don't think most people would think of those when they thinking "paintings," though. And those are only the human-produced color anchors.
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#135I'm a man and I like colors. I have a red car, red shoes and colorful jackets. None of them are especially remarkable, they just have colors on them. I get remarks from colleagues about my shoes, I get remarks from random people on the street about my jacket. These people don't tend to be very positive about it, yet they feel the need to say something about my appearance, because I wear colorful stuff. I feel like pa…
Jeff: "Is it me or are more people wearing gray? I feel like I'm in a commercial and someone's about to hand me a Starbust."
Abed: "3's and 2's tend to wear neutral colors. Looking like you want to move up can get you moved down..." [Abed waves to people in the distance] "Those are other 3's. We talk about how we're glad we're not 2's." [Abed stands to leave] "Small talk guys... I make small talk now."
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
The reason for that seems obvious to me. Grey, steel, white and black will work in basically every kitchen. If you want a more colorful pallet in any room in your house, then you need to put a lot more thought into planning it. I think most people aren’t highly motivated to do that.
>Grey, steel, white and black will work in basically every kitchen. I don't understand that argument. My toaster only needs to work in my kitchen, not every kitchen. From a manufacture's point of view I get it. It is cheaper to produce 3 colors than 54.
They're talking about a design perspective. People like the lime green toaster because it by itself looks nice, but if they placed it in _their_ kitchen, it would probably look absolutely ridiculous unless they're designers and know how to perfectly balance such a strong color in the room.
In contrast, neutral colors will look good in any color palette and require zero design talent from your side.
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#137I would argue the graph looking at pixels in photographs is probably more affected by smartphones than any societal trend. Because so many more pictures are taken with smartphones now, the colors produced by smartphones have an impact here. But probably a greater impact is the number of throw-away pictures that are taken and published now as opposed to before. (Not to say that smartphones pictures are bad pictures, b…
The graph describes the colours in pictures taken of objects that are part a museum’s collection, not pictures taken with a variety of cameras over time. The behaviour of smartphone cameras would have no effect.
Thanks for that clarification. That does mean my comment was off the mark.
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#138I'm a man and I like colors. I have a red car, red shoes and colorful jackets. None of them are especially remarkable, they just have colors on them. I get remarks from colleagues about my shoes, I get remarks from random people on the street about my jacket. These people don't tend to be very positive about it, yet they feel the need to say something about my appearance, because I wear colorful stuff. I feel like pa…
I almost always wear hi-vis orange shirts, and my preferred hoodie is hi-vis yellow (pity it’s not orange, but that’s the one I’ve got and I don’t need another). Good quality, readily available, comfortable, cheap, and I stand out and am memorable in most contexts, which can be useful. Probably blinds people a little in direct sunlight, though no one’s ever mentioned such a thing. Occasionally throws people for a loo…
> I almost always wear hi-vis orange shirts, and my preferred hoodie is hi-vis yellow
I have some orange t-shirts that I love, but if I'm going out on a trip to the country to look for wildlife there is no way I'd wear them - I choose muted natural greens and khaki instead (although I don't actually wear camo gear). Also, when I photographing anywhere where I might be partially visible in a window reflection I wear clothes that don't have stripes, because these stand out like a sore thumb.
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#139I think one possible reason is colours have become more plentiful, so it's harder to match now. If there's 4 blues to pick from, you're likely to be able to deck out your entire kitchen in matching hues. If there's 50 blues... good luck.
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#140I’ve spent quite a lot of time in India (mainly Hyderabad and Kolkata), and can report that India is much more colourful than Australia. Very garishly so, to my eyes. In clothing, building paint, night-time building lighting (… I found myself sometimes wishing coloured LEDs hadn’t been invented), just about everything imaginable. Weddings can be almost painful in the saturation of colour. But Indian cities are also e…
I went a little ways into Mexico (Tijuana and Ensenada) and bright colors were so ubiquitous and distracting it was hard for me to find necessary stuff like street signs and business signs. I was looking for a certain business which I was assured I couldn't miss. I drove past it several times, but just couldn't see it because of all the other stuff visually shouting at me.