


Try this online color challenge from XRite. This test asks you to arrange several tiers of color swatches in chromatic order.
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Some of these are online apps, others work on Android or iOS. I’ve compiled a list of six apps to help improve your color vision. A single set of colors can be sorted according to brightness, lightness, hue family, and temperature (warm or cool).

Looking at a leaf, for example, try to determine if the green has more yellow, more blue, more red, or no blue at all (many “greens” are mixtures of yellow and black) and how vivid or dull the color is. This exercise is quite useful for strengthening your ability to see color accurately, if you do it regularly.Ĭolor sorting exercises increase your perceptual abilities. Pulling colors from digital images and arranging them into different palettes is also useful. One method is to find natural forms and match their colors using both paint and Photoshop. The practice of mixing colors, either digitally or with pigments, is a good way to train the eye. If the numeral is visible to the viewer, color perception is normal. The Ishihara test uses circles made of colored dots revealing a letter or numeral. There are ways to test your color perception. Due to lack of function of some of the retina’s photoreceptor cells, color perception may be limited. The exception is, of course, those who have some degree of color blindness or reduced vision. While our experience of color may vary, our perception is mostly the same. We might use different names for these colors, but color perception works the same way for everyone. If our eyes are operating as designed, we all see the same red, green, or periwinkle or close to it. Have you wondered about your ability to see color well, and if everyone perceives color in the same way? Generally speaking, we do.Ĭolor vision is a physiological function. We can generally differentiate between 24–32 levels of light and dark. A trained eye can discern even more levels. We can perceive billions of colors, which we have sorted into 12 hue families ( based on Johannes Itten’s 12-hue color system), plus tints, shades, tones and neutrals made from the hues. The more you work with color, the more aware you become of subtle differences. Much of color perception is simply understanding what you are seeing. By the end of our conversation we had covered topics such as color vision, color psychology, color harmonies and color trends. I gathered my color knowledge and guided him through a discussion of color and design. The role of the designer is often that of teacher. One of my clients asked this question while we were discussing color options for a branded direct mail campaign I was designing.
