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good reasons to use colour
I just came across this nice article – http://understandinggraphics.com/design/10-reasons-to-use-color/ – entitled 10 reasons to use color. The article lists 10 good reasons to use colour in design....
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eyes change colour?
I didn’t realise how sophisticated reindeers are. It turns out they have two layers of fur to help them keep warm, are able to shrink the pads on their hooves to give then better grip, and can detect...
View Articlenew British flag
Some of you may recall that last year – a big year for the UK with the Olympics in London and Queen’s jubilee – there was a lot of waving of British flags. I posted about how the flag was derived...
View Articlecolour and language
One of the things that #TheDress controversy has highlighted is that colour is not as fixed as the majority of people believe. We tend to think that objects have a single colour and that we all see...
View ArticleWhat colour is the sky on mars?
The cameras never lies. Or does it? Recently I had to take a photo for a medical case and before submitting it I had to sign to say that the photo had not been modified. I did this – but it was...
View ArticleI like pink
Pink is one of my favourite colours. Generally, however, if you ask people what their favourite colour is, the most frequent response is blue irrespective of gender, age or culture. Adults, that is....
View Articlecolour helps you sleep
Light in our natural environment tends to be bluer first thing in the morning and redder at dusk. Researchers from the University of Manchester looked at the change in light around dawn and dusk to...
View Articlewhat colour is your passport?
Whenever I am travelling to a conference and standing in a line at an airport it seems to me that everyone has either a burgundy passport like me or a red one if the are from USA. It turns out that...
View ArticleWhy yellow and blue don’t make green
[and why we should stop teaching it in schools] You will find images like the one above, that show that red, yellow and blue are the primaries and that yellow and blue make green. Sometimes this is...
View ArticleColour Mixing
I really like this page by John Lovett about colour mixing. We all know that you can’t mix all colours by starting from three primaries. You can’t do this in theory and you can’t do it in practice. You...
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