Comments by "EebstertheGreat" (@EebstertheGreat) on "Brown; color is weird" video.

  1. Also, different people have different meanings for the word "brown." Although the quintessential dirt color is a dark, unsaturated orange, many lighter colors like beige and khaki are usually considered browns as well. Browns are mostly distinguished from other colors by being unsaturated (reflecting or emitting many frequencies in the visible range) and having reddish hues (reflecting or emitting low frequencies in the visible range particularly strongly), so you could even think of "brown" as really being "reddish gray." Note that in the RGB color space, there are greenish browns and bluish browns, but there are no browns without a substantial amount of red. And in the HSL or HSV space, there are light browns and dark browns, but all browns have low saturation and a reddish hue.
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  2.  @XetXetable  Cyan is blue-green, not light blue.
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  3. I hear this a lot. Unless you have a wide gamut screen, you are not able to see "almost any color imaginable." In fact, the sRGB color space most of us use only covers about 36% of the visible color space. Even the best possible gamut of three real primaries only covers about 78% of the visible color space (approximately the Adobe Wide Gamut RGB). To do better, you either need to use more primaries or you need to use imaginary colors. To cover 100% of the visible color space using real primary colors, every frequency in the visible range needs its own primary color. So again, while monitors do produce an impressive display of colors, for most of us, that's still not even two fifths of the colors we can see. Forget brown, your screen can't even show you violet or cyan.
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