A factoid that’s stuck in my mind about color from Xerox days is that humans are very good null detectors (telling if 2 colors are the same) but bad at quantities, and inconsistent in their preferences (ie if/when they care about differences they detect) http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/Delta_E:_The_Color_Difference …
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This seems true beyond colors. We can tell if 2 political positions are the same or not, but when they *are* different, navigating the difference is a shitshow. Political personalities are like color spaces. Some use L*a*b*, others use HSV, some use Pantone. Most use RGB.
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HSV: Right libertarians. It feels legible and “scientific” so it must be true. L*a*b*: Conservatives. There’s vague theories of “natural” embedded in there. RGB: Techies and children Pantone: Purity-testing extremists of any sort.
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Interestingly I don’t think liberals have a preferred color model. They use whatever is convenient in a given context. Unqualified mediocre liberals that is. Not classical liberals (that’s basically conservatism, so Lab) or progressive (purist, so Pantone)
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Forgot CMYK. That’s reactionary. Tied to an old technology.
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