I can see shades of colour that most people don't seem able to distinguish between, I drove everybody mad when chosing the paint for the living room and hall. Colour has dimensions it's rarely flat, that's what many people don't seem able to see. When I was hairdressing I was really good at highlights and lowlights, picking exactly the right mix of colours to weave into the hair to bring out the best in the clients skin tones.
One thing that I have always found fascinating is that 'colour' is just a construct of the brain. Humans have 3 types of 'cones' in the eye, and they detect red, green or blue. This means that 'primary colours' are only applicable to humans and would be different to other animals.
Colour blindness is usually due to only having two type of cones. (Warning: I'm not a scientist, and this if all from memory!)
But what really blows my mind is that a small proportion of the population, usually women, have FOUR types of cones! This means to them that there are four primary colours!! The concept is called 'tetracromacy'. Humans are usually 'tricromats'. I would love to have this. I love colours and lights. It is something that we can't imagine.
Unfortunately, this extra colour wavelength lies between the other three. But some animals have their cones detecting within the infra-red or ultra-violet regions. That would be so amazing to have.
Blue has always been my favourite colour, the vivid blues make my brain tingle. There’s a car colour called Kingfisher blue, I would love to use on one of my projects.
Honestly I don’t like blue-grey as much, I feel like it either needs to be more blue or more grey. I don’t like the “grey area” about it (haha do you like my pun?!)
I love blue too, but I also love grey!!! Something about grey is calming to me and I love all the different shades and how it fits with everything. I don’t like when the sky and clouds are grey though lol
When I was a child, I used to say red very strongly.
But as I got older it became purple. Not just any purple, so I will have to try and find an example.
When I was a child I had mild synesthesia (common in autistics) and the days of the week had a very strong colour association to me - almost to the point of saturating my vision with the colour. (I read recently that Daniel Tammet (autistic author) has a similar thing. I still remember the colours and the feeling vividly but don't actually feel it anymore.
