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Re:#FF4A00 by ars on Thursday April 11, 2013 @09:25PM (#5535982)
I wonder if there are people who can visualize what a color will look like just by reading the hex value of it.
Re:#FF4A00 by usea on Thursday April 11, 2013 @09:33PM (#5536018)
Plenty. I can do it, to a certain degree of accuracy. At least enough of a degree that there won't be a more accurate english word for the color in my vocabulary.
Re:#FF4A00 by brebory on Friday April 12, 2013 @01:51AM (#5536879)
It helps to remember that: 1. #RRGGBB 2. B + G = Cyan 3. R + B = Magenta 4. R + G = Yellow 5. Equal amounts of all three channels = Gray 6. #000000 = Black 7. #FFFFFF = White

Think of the rgb color space as a cube, with each of Black, White, Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow on the vertices. Then you define any hex color as point somewhere in this cube and it's pretty easy to imagine what it'll look like.

Re:#FF4A00 by ccozan on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:37AM (#5537673)
In my 20's I've done a lot of web design for about 5 years. After 2, maybe 3, years I could "see" the colors and their nuances in the hex codes. More interesting was the reverse lookup, seeing a color and visualizing the hex for it. Fun times. Not sure I still can do it...besides the most obvious ones. But then I was not bad, about 90-95% accuracy ( measured on the deviation of the light/color wavelength ).
Re:#FF4A00 by nathos on Thursday April 11, 2013 @09:35PM (#5536022)
Maybe not perfectly, but it's not all that hard to guess: 00 through FF, with each pair representing red, green, and blue channels respectively.
Re:#FF4A00 by jere on Thursday April 11, 2013 @09:34PM (#5536021)
Am I misunderstanding? It's not that hard for a lot of colors. Grays, reds, blues, and greens are obviously the easiest.