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Bryce "BonzoESC" Kerley
March 05, 2013
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Color and Computers
How computers talk about color and what it means for designers.
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March 05, 2013
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Transcript
Color and Computers Bryce Kerley Design Miami March 4, 2013
Monday, March 4, 13
Color and Computers •Describing Colors •What the heck is gamut?
•Colors and Image Formats •Colors and HTML Monday, March 4, 13
Who am I? Consulting Engineer Burrito Enthusiast Basho Technologies
[email protected]
@bonzoesc Monday, March 4, 13
Preemptive Pedantry Colors are a human concept ascribing sense and
emotions to physics Monday, March 4, 13 This means that primary colors aren’t the same primary colors as grade school, for example.
Describing Colors Numbers Monday, March 4, 13
Additive vs. Subtractive •Light sources make color by adding multiple
wavelengths •Red, Green, Blue (RGB) Monday, March 4, 13
Additive vs. Subtractive •Light reflectors (paper, ink, cars, leaves) make
color by subtracting wavelengths •Cyan, Magenta Yellow Monday, March 4, 13
Addition vs. Subtraction White = Red + Green + Blue
Light Green = Some Red + All Green + Some Blue Monday, March 4, 13 We’ll leave how color LCDs work to after-presentation chat.
Addition vs. Subtraction Green Leaves = White Sunlight - Everything
But Green Black Railing = White Sunlight - Everything Monday, March 4, 13 It’s in the plant’s benefit to absorb as much light as possible. They skimp on the green part of the spectrum for some evolutionary reasons
RGB vs. CMY Diagrams from Wikipedia Monday, March 4, 13
CMY vs. CMYK Color printers have blacK ink because you
mostly print black Usually looks nicer than C+M+Y because of precision and gamut Monday, March 4, 13
RGB vs. CMY vs. HSL RGB: Mixing light CMY: Subtracting
light HSL: Perception Monday, March 4, 13
HSL Diagram from Wikipedia Monday, March 4, 13
HSL 0°, 100%, 25% - saturated dark red “I want
green” 105°, 100%, 25% - saturated dark green “I like that green but I want less green” 105°, 50%, 25% - greyish dark green Monday, March 4, 13
HSL vs. HSB vs. HSV Slightly Different Make a computer
convert http://colorizer.org/ Monday, March 4, 13
Color Spaces RGB CMY CMYK HSL HSV LAB CIE YUV
YCbCr YPbPr Y’UV xvYCC Monday, March 4, 13 Most of these you won’t ever care about
What The Heck Is Gamut? Not every display method can
reproduce every color Monday, March 4, 13
Gamut iPhone 1, 3G, 3GS: 18-bit color iPhone 4, 4S,
5: 24-bit color iMac (27” Late 2009): 24-bit color Brother HL-2170W: 1-bit color Monday, March 4, 13 I have a black-and-white laser printer
Gamut and Bits More bits = better than Conversions can
lose gamut Monday, March 4, 13 Some 24-bit HSV colors not representable in 24-bit RGB Some 24-bit RGB colors not representable in 24-bit HSV
Gamut and Conversion Monday, March 4, 13 Don’t do it
by hand.
Gamut and Calibration Depends on ambient light Depends on time
of day Depends on season Monday, March 4, 13
Calibration and the Web Old smartphones 14” CRTs The cheapest
15” LCD An iPhone in direct sunlight Monday, March 4, 13
Calibration and the Web Don’t Bother Monday, March 4, 13
Image Formats GIF: Limited Colors Monday, March 4, 13
Image Formats JPEG: Artifacts Monday, March 4, 13
Image Formats PNG: File Size Monday, March 4, 13
Colors and HTML Don’t Monday, March 4, 13
Colors and CSS #F0F - 12-bit RGB, four bits/character #FF00FF
- 24-bit RGB, four bits/character rgb(255, 0, 255) - 24-bit RGB, decimals hsl(300, 100%, 50%) - degrees and percents Monday, March 4, 13
Alpha 0% transparent 100% opaque Monday, March 4, 13
Alpha vs. Opacity Alpha modifies the color Opacity modifies the
element Monday, March 4, 13
Colors and CSS rgba(255, 0, 255, 0.82) RGBA, decimals hsla(0,
0%, 100%, 0.82) HSL, degrees and percents Monday, March 4, 13
Color and Computers •Describing Colors •What the heck is gamut?
•Colors and Image Formats •Colors and CSS Monday, March 4, 13
Links Why are leaves green? http://bit.ly/green- leaves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_color_spaces_and_their_uses http://colorizer.org/
Playing around http://jsfiddle.net/st8jP/ Monday, March 4, 13