Insight: Color Perception

As part of an ongoing series, I'm highlighting a series of insights I discovered in
Information Visualization, Second Edition: Perception for Design

To paraphrase page 98–99:

10% of men are color blind, 1% of women. It might be the need to find colored berries amongst the green leaves that meant color was more important, evolutionarily, to women.





 

• Chickens have 12 color receptors as opposed to humans' three


• Pure yellow is the one pure color all humans consistently agree on


• Peripheral vision is color blind. (Page 361)


• There are actually two types of red-green color receptors. And perhaps this is why we can't agree on turquoise being, in essence green, or blue

Comments

[Vincent Gable]

Possibly of interest:
http://wearecolorblind.com/" rel="nofollow">wearecolorblind.com : Patterns for the Color Blind

[Keith Lang]

Handy link. Good find, thanks Vincent!