Anyone else notice that orange and red get mixed up a lot?
I can't really find any information on this that doesn't have to do with color blindness, but I notice that many people (who are not color blind) often mix up red and orange in casual speech. I noticed this a lot when watching playthroughs of Portal and Portal 2, but there's also other cases too. In each case when confronted the person says they don't know why they said the wrong color.
Here's a recent example:
https://plus.google.com/103506123383442689189/posts/W6n9PxBnPAm
The guy in the video is not colorblind, but he said red instead of orange, and isn't sure why.
Has anyone else noticed this? It's been bugging me for years. I've never noticed other colors get mixed up anywhere near as often as red and orange.
Here's a recent example:
https://plus.google.com/103506123383442689189/posts/W6n9PxBnPAm
The guy in the video is not colorblind, but he said red instead of orange, and isn't sure why.
Has anyone else noticed this? It's been bugging me for years. I've never noticed other colors get mixed up anywhere near as often as red and orange.
Lighting and contrast have a huge impact on how colors are perceived. Look at the whole Blue&Black vs. White&Gold dress thing.
I don't notice this happening particularly more often with red/orange specifically... but maybe it does. Red and Orange are kind of similar -- but I could easily see the same thing happening with certain shades of blue and purple. Or even dark blue and black.
I don't notice this happening particularly more often with red/orange specifically... but maybe it does. Red and Orange are kind of similar -- but I could easily see the same thing happening with certain shades of blue and purple. Or even dark blue and black.
As far as Portal goes... I wonder if it is because Red and Blue are primary colors. Given a blue portal, red seems more "opposite" (colloquially speaking), thus more readily used in contrast to blue.
I've never noticed such a trend of mixups, though.
I've never noticed such a trend of mixups, though.
With Portal, I've heard people call the orange portal orange and red in the same sentence. They clearly know it is orange, but they have a slip of the tongue and accidentally call it red.
@Disch: I never really considered red and orange as similar colors, but I guess they are.
@Disch: I never really considered red and orange as similar colors, but I guess they are.
I haven't just seen it in videos, it has happened to people I speak to in real life with objects right in front of me.
I guess if I'm the only one who has noticed this, it must not be that significant and I've just been 'lucky'.
I guess if I'm the only one who has noticed this, it must not be that significant and I've just been 'lucky'.
I still think Okrand had it more-or-less right.
When it doesn't really matter, what's the difference?
Ever have an argument with a child about whether something was blue or green?
Ever notice that the argument is never about something that is really blue or really green. It's about something that is somewhere in-between.
Orange is an in-between color (between red and yellow). The canonical 'orange' is that of an orange (fruit), of course, but many of the oranges we live with are more saturated and or closer to red in hue.
If you are standing with two reds, and one is more orange, you call the first red and the second orange.
That same orange, compared to two oranges, might be called red while the other called orange.
When it doesn't really matter, what's the difference?
Ever have an argument with a child about whether something was blue or green?
Ever notice that the argument is never about something that is really blue or really green. It's about something that is somewhere in-between.
Orange is an in-between color (between red and yellow). The canonical 'orange' is that of an orange (fruit), of course, but many of the oranges we live with are more saturated and or closer to red in hue.
If you are standing with two reds, and one is more orange, you call the first red and the second orange.
That same orange, compared to two oranges, might be called red while the other called orange.
I'm starting to feel crazy here - I've never considered orange to be anywhere near red in terms of similarity. I mean, just look at the color palettes on the wikipedia articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour)
They don't even look remotely similar to me. I mean, I know that in terms of wavelengths and RGB representation they are similar, but in terms of how my brain processes them they are unrelated. Is this just me? Do red and orange really look similar to all of you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour)
They don't even look remotely similar to me. I mean, I know that in terms of wavelengths and RGB representation they are similar, but in terms of how my brain processes them they are unrelated. Is this just me? Do red and orange really look similar to all of you?
You've chosen colors very friendly to your point of view. How about:
https://therevelationpaintingvisions.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/orange-color-photography-1.jpg
(All orange! From https://therevelationpaintingvisions.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/69/)
Or the nice list here:
http://designbeep.com/2012/06/24/feeling-the-warmness-of-orange30-fantastic-photographs/
(Compare "Orange Flower" vs "Orange Exit", or "Orange Tulip" vs "Sukhothai Sunrise" -- they're all oranges, but some are much redder than others.)
The fact that they are adjacent means that there will always be some bleeding into where red stops and orange begins.
https://therevelationpaintingvisions.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/orange-color-photography-1.jpg
(All orange! From https://therevelationpaintingvisions.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/69/)
Or the nice list here:
http://designbeep.com/2012/06/24/feeling-the-warmness-of-orange30-fantastic-photographs/
(Compare "Orange Flower" vs "Orange Exit", or "Orange Tulip" vs "Sukhothai Sunrise" -- they're all oranges, but some are much redder than others.)
The fact that they are adjacent means that there will always be some bleeding into where red stops and orange begins.
Semi off topic, but my friend has a cone deficiency that makes him see yellow where this is green, sometimes. It's so slight that for the 10 years he knew about it, it never caused any problems... Until we were playing this RPG where skills come in the form of colored gems that go into like colored sockets on items. For 3 weeks we played and he kept complaining he couldn't find any green gems. Eventually he yelled out "god dammit! Another yellow!"
... there is no yellow.
... there is no yellow.
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http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge
In this
http://blog.nag.com/2010_11_01_archive.html
the orange spots (and the grey squares they are on) are the same. It doesn't matter what the colour is, it is more about what you brain tells you it is.
In this
http://blog.nag.com/2010_11_01_archive.html
the orange spots (and the grey squares they are on) are the same. It doesn't matter what the colour is, it is more about what you brain tells you it is.
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On my mother's uncalibrated monitor: 8 (aged 40-49, male).
I think I had a 6 on my monitor at home when I took this before. (I'll have to take it again to verify.)
I'm a little weak in the blue-purple and in violet-red.
I think I had a 6 on my monitor at home when I took this before. (I'll have to take it again to verify.)
I'm a little weak in the blue-purple and in violet-red.
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I got 16 earlier. I could see I needed to refine a few but I was a little tired of doing it.
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The x-rite colour test... http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge
I scored an 89, I suck with colors considering I have Deuteranopia color blindness and 75% of the colors on those palettes look the same to me.
As far as that video L B linked, it looks red to me if it is orange its a super red orange. If it was closer towards the middle or yellow side maybe I would say it looks orange.
And yes the far left and far right look completely different to me. But the 3-5 shades in each section are all the same color to me and about the 8-10 or so in the very middle.
These all look same to me: http://s24.postimg.org/3v95mx60l/IMG.png
As far as that video L B linked, it looks red to me if it is orange its a super red orange. If it was closer towards the middle or yellow side maybe I would say it looks orange.
And yes the far left and far right look completely different to me. But the 3-5 shades in each section are all the same color to me and about the 8-10 or so in the very middle.
These all look same to me: http://s24.postimg.org/3v95mx60l/IMG.png
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