Take something you like: Embrace & Extend

I'm trying to stretch out the colours that are in my life. Things I enjoy, little things from jubjubs and gummy bears to being lost in the trees all represent my comfortable colours. Hmm, perhaps the next colours for my room?

A world without Colour.

Oh to be colour blind.

Like I've mentioned before (or maybe I haven't), peoples vision comes from different colour sensing cones. When someone is colour blind they are missing or have one or more cones a bit less responsive than other, well, normal people.

And that brings up a problem of how to communicate with those that are colour blind about color, or for those blind that might want to find an associated hue to something. There is this:
http://www.colblindor.com/color-name-hue/

Mostly, I'll be matching names to things and having fun.

Colour Language; Like Signlangauge.. sort of..

The names of colours are much more universal than I made out to be.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061019094031.htm

At some point, everyone will speak english, and I dread to see that day. The english language, although diverse or.. huge, misses on some real fundamental values of the true meaning of things. I happen to think the same thing is with colours. We have 11 different names for the basic colours, but really there only needs to be a few, maybe a maximum of 6 colours.

Safari, Here we come

I often like to boast my hind off about Firefox and it's amazing qualities in rendering Standards with a gecko based backend. But I was working in Illustrator and exporting images when I noticed that the colour was off, way off in my lovely browser. When I save an image to the web Illustrator asks me if I would like to embed my colour profile settings into a jpeg. If I do then other programs can read this and use the same colour profile. But it turns out the colour profile settings weren't being adhered to in Firefox, and thinking it was just a browser issue I continued on my way trying to oversaturate the image in illustrator to match the desaturation that would happen when exporting. A lenghty process I assure you.

I then accidently viewed it in Safari.. and. The colours were fabulous. I investigated, and, it appears this was a nice goody that was added back in 2007.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2007-06-19-safari-colors_N.htm

It's interesting that in the article it mentions Firefox 3 will have these nice features. Yet, I'm using Firefox 3 beta 4 and.. it doesn't.. .. but not according to bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16769