Brown; color is weird
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This video discusses the color brown. Seriously.
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
If your display has a dynamic backlight, the color of the square may in fact be changing along with the average image brightness. I underestimated how common this is so I didn't mention it. So, if you're seeing it change - that wasn't me! Those colors in the video file are identical.
And, just so's ya know, there are indeed many browns and not all of them are necessarily derived from orange. As you saw, the Pantone 448C is much more like a very dark yellow. But, to me, the classic *_brown_* is definitely a descendant of orange.
And don't get me started on beige!
I hate to say it, but your jacket isn't a million miles from 448C :/
Diversion: Salmon is the beige of fish. Can't pick a paint colour? Use beige. Can't decide what fish to order? Get salmon. Now salmon as a colour... that's a bold choice.
You know, you talk and showed a many examples of those magnetic tapes, video tapes, cassette tapes, reel to reel tapes. I think you are suffering from Tape worm disease with this fascination for brown.
Duh... beige is just light brown. So beige = orange. ;^)
Just wanna say, at 8:15 all I can see is brown. Sure its an orangey brown, but so much darker than any color id describe as orange. Also when the background switches back and forth it doesnt really change in color at all. This video is really interesting to me, hopefully im not color blind lol especially since im a painter. I think if you spend enough time paying attention to colors, you can see how much red, green, or even blue is in them. Its kinda like looking at color temperature or color balance.
"Hey, what's your eye color?"
" Uhh... *_c o n t e x t u a l o r a n g e_* "
Me too :3
Well, that's not half-wrong.
My mother's eyes are so bright brown, that they look orange when they're in the light.
Likewise, my eyes come off almost a cyan colour in the light, when they're in-fact green.
And, my father has boring blue. Nothing interesting there
Trump is our second black president.
He's a bright skinned black man.
@@DanteYewToob this means he is the second president able to say the n-word *Donald rubbing hands together* "This was my plan all along." *maniacal laughing and stuff*
Hello jojo fan
"Maybe red-yellow.... Rellow?..."
My brain: *YED*
YED.
My brain: Scooby Doo?
СБК ummm orange? Or should I say LIGHT BROWN
RELLOW
YELLED
I was lighting a white wall with RGB lights for a client and they wanted it to be brown (their brand color). It was very difficult to explain to them why it wasn't possible...
UPS?
@@DjornNorthfield
Wow. Did you watch the video? Try watching around 7:20. Listen this time.
@@Abmotsadunited parcel service
M&M's?
@@Abmotsad ??? What did he miss?
Your demonstration with the colour wheel at 14:00 is by far the best explanation of how language impacts our perception of colour I've ever seen.
This is 100% accurate for russian language too
oooooo the sapir whorf hypothesis is real oooooo language shapes our mind oooooo
But we have common name for light blue color
@@user-iy8eg3yr1n what is it
No it isn't. People can still see and perceive brown even if they didn't have a word for it, they would just be calling it "the color of coffee" or dark-orange or some other word. Language doesn't change how your eyes see things, it only changes how you think about the thing, but not to the extent that it's impossible to change the way you think about things. Hence why you can learn new languages and new ways to think. This is why linguistic determinism is complete bogus, but linguistic relativism (not the same thing, btw) is sorta correct-ish in a milder sense.
People are still able to perceive the colors even if there are not separate terms for them. But I would go farther and say that *we can recognize that two different colors are different even if they are called the same thing* and that *individuals can decide when a color is distinct at any moment in time.* This is what allows us to determine that two different brightnesses of light orange are in fact different, even if they are both light orange!
Showing that colors have different categorizations or names across different languages does not prove people perceive these colors differently or that they cannot think up their own categorizations for colors. This is the biggest flaw with those who try to use color as an example of linguistic relativity. Linguistic relativity can be demonstrated in other ways, just not this one.
"I'm black"
no, you are very dark orange
@Duribethin Soooo everyone gon' look like tha tango man tony!?
xDD haha wow i didnt Think i had more than 3 likes
So does that mean Trump is just a really bright skinned "black" man?
Actualy black people with hella dark skin are more on a red hue, as a digital artist it was hell for me to figure out the proper hue so it looks normal and not borderline racist caricature
Skin colour must be a mix of orange and pink with different brightness.
"brown doesn't exist"
Me: looks at my skin, looks at the screen, looks back at my skin.
_i am orange_
so, basically you could call "brown" "midnight-Orange", "Forest Orange", "Dark Orange", or "Wood Orange".
Are you maybe related to Mr. Trump? :D
@@MegaMewHyperLucario 👁️👄👁️
We are all shades of orange...
Eh, I just call it black
The aging wheels cameo caught me extremely off guard but I love both of your channels!
this whole "color not actually changing along with background" situation is a crisis that all of us artist struggle with at least once in our lives, the wonders of color theory
Some people: wait brown is just darker Orange?
Artist's : *always has been*
Omg 😂😂 I relized this just now
Wait normal ppl dont know dis?
you mean non-digital artists don’t know this already????
As a digital artist on the color picker you have to go to orange and then darken it to get brown so I suppose its more common knowledge then someone who doesn't do that.
I mean, I'm not a digital artist, but I kinda figured it out myself when I was mixing paint as a kid. I just thought "What can make brown? I'm pretty sure it's orange and black", not to mention that I have a slightly more than average sense of colour (I guess)
Person: “Brown”
Me an intellectual: “Dark orange”
Person: Light Blue
Me: Sky.
Person: Light green
Me: Lime.
Person: Reddish-Orange
Me: VERMILLION. FULL. STOP.
Actually, dark beige.
yo todo un ctm: naranja oscuro
The Cleveland Dark Oranges defeated the Cincinnati Bengals yesterday.
Ha yes a fellow intellectual
As a Chinese person (who was born and raised in Australia) I am thoroughly impressed by your Chinese pronunciation! It's much clearer than most of those in Hollywood
I've been also learning Chinese for quite a long time, but never heard 咖啡色used as brown. Only 棕色. Do they really use it?
@@rpgenious
I'm not actually fluent in Chinese nor very steeped in the culture, hence my disclosure of being born and raised in Australia. I imagine that this could be a generational gap, similar to German; in the past, they used the word hochschule (literally "high school") for university. Now, possibly due to the English influence, people are transitioning to use the word Universität which sounds much more similar to the English counterpart
Of course he's clearer than many actors cause many of those actors are just acting and don't learn the language unlike him. So you can't really compare the two. People made lots of videos on how entertainment is inaccurate in many things. Like how some of the historical or cultural costume they wore were inaccurate.
Metatron made a video complaining how English speaking actors were bad at pronouncing other languages, and he asked that entertainment hire actors who actually knew those languages. Even some people complained that some English speaking actors were bad at doing other English accents.
@@rpgenious hi there! As a Mandarin speaker born in Taiwan, we used 咖啡色 a lot in daily conversations instead of 棕色. I feel like 棕色 is slightly lighter than 咖啡色. they’re just different shades of brown😁🤎
@@outofsomewhereoutofnowhere3751 Oh, thanks.
Honestly never heard it, although unfortunately I don't use chinese that often.
I love that you talked about real paint mixing compared to light displays, because paint mixing works better with yellow cyan and magenta as primaries, and I always thought it was interesting how digital displays use red green and blue. Its the opposite to what I was taught as an artist.
Yeah, magenta and blue make a way better purple than red and blue
"brown doesn't really exist"
Me, a person with brown skin, "so long my friends" *fades away *
😂 Lol.
Change de world
My final message
Goodbye
😆
Trump is orange, african americans are dark orange.. therefore trump is a light skinned african american?????
😭🤣🤣🤣
"Brown doesn't exist. But it kind of does."
* vsauce music plays
“Brown is a color, or is it?”
Michael suddenly pops up
It kind of. Or does it?
@@UnclePengy "Hey VSauce,Michael here.Look at your pants,they are Brown,right?"
*Vsauce Theme Plays*
I've been a color technician using dyes and pigments for a decade and am very familiar with subtractive color.
It was fun to learn more about additive color! Fun fact, with subtractive color, we can achieve a brown out of any two colors that are opposite on the color wheel, like green and red, or orange and purple.
Depending on the strength of the pigment, there is some perfect ratio of the two colors that will achieve some variation of brown.
Cpnsidering orange as we did in the video, I would probably have added just a touch of green to neutralize the redness of the orange. If that shifts me into too much of a yellow space, you could add a very small amount of red (or more orange) to shift it back into a true brown.
I wrote a editorial about the color pink and how I was annoyed by it's unclear categorization for English class once. I mentioned that the only majorly recognized colors that are values of pure colors are pink and brown(which you mentioned in the video.) It's really surprising how much there can be to talk about a single color.
Isn't that just because brown and pink are both very common in nature? Pink skin on humans and brown tree trunks / grass. We create words in order to describe natural phenomenon, so our words reflect what we see. Even our eyes do not detect pure color, so every color is based on our perception of reality.
What's interesting is that in other languages that's not the case necessarily. In Italian there's a distinction between "blu" and "azzurro", which is really difficult to grasp for a student of Italian like me. My German speaker brain just cannot comprehend that. I cannot show you the difference without a picture, but if you want to you can just google "azzurro blu difference" :)
as a colorblind guy who's got brown hair, the Revelation that brown is just orange, but darker, has actually rocked my world.
same man, same.
Can you describe that at all? Does it help you visualize what orange might look like?
@@noahandrews628 no
I’m also color blind so next time I confused orange and brown... technically I’m not though 😂
Who told you you had brown hair?
Joke: calling brown "dark orange"
Bespoke: calling orange "bright brown"
Wait this isn’t SiIvagunner
who tf came up with your name, boy be sufferin
@@czyh 💀I forgor
@@ow_su i remembr 😃
Bright brown doesn't look like orange though, it's just beige.
Having watched Aging Wheels, the joke at the 1:35 mark is all the funnier. These guys have much the same sense of humour XD
They really need to do another calab lol
@@seymoarsalvage couldn't agree more!
I actually laughed out loud!
Reaching the point in life where I watch a documentary on brown. Wow.
“It’s not actually brown. It’s orange... but darker”
that just sounds like brown with extra steps
Adi Septiana no its brown with extra steps
Rick and Morty Roll...Successful Execution!
Jeez someone’s getting laid in college
Mazen Fisher bless your soul
Oh no, just as I read this comment my phone stopped charging in my car.. NOT AGAIN
“Are you in your dark place?” Me through tears, Always
Did you not get the epic victory Royale
Are you OK bud? You can always reach out if u need someone to talk to
haha
@@idkidk9522 Fortnite? more like, Fartnite. hehe... fartnite... he....
Get it? cause I hate fortnite? huh? no? ok...
@@imnotvladimirputin fortnite is trash
When painting, if you combine any complimentary colors (blue w/ orange, red w/ green or yellow w/ purple) you’ll get great variations of brown ❤️
because you are mixing the primary colours (of the real world, not RGB): red, blue and yellow to some decree, brown is basically every colour mixed.
RGB is light @@S7i7mon
I appreciate this video, and you have opened my eyes to some RGB weirdness that I have wondered about. I've spent decades working with print and mixing inks, and wanted to share regarding your paint mixing demo. Orange and black paints make brown not because you are changing the contrast around the orange, but because there is almost no true black pigment available. What we call black paint is extremely dark blue. Orange is the combo of red and yellow, so mixing super dark blue into it will create brown. I have enjoyed watching your videos. Thanks for putting so much informative content out there.
"Brown is just Dark Orange?"
"Always has been."
But he didn’t talk about pink is a brighter red
Haha funni mem
Not orange.
50/50 Red and Green make Yellow. It is Yellow that is Brown, but at lower levels of luminance... the sort of Yellow you get when mixing paint instead of light. Paint contains lots of black pigment, but light has no *darkness* in it. This is why RED and GREEN paint mixed 50/50 makes BROWN.
(For the purposes of explaining browness, "Orange" is a red herring. Sorry.)
@I C Tried that actually since i work with paint. all i really ended up with was a dark dark brownish gray
@@hiderikanzaki7313 depends on what shade of pink. magenta in particular and all it's derivative shades technically doesn't exist as it's a blending of wavelengths on the furthest extremes of the visible spectrum. but most shades of pink are indeed just bright red
*looks at my skin:
Hey look at it. I'm not brown. I'm orange, with context.
Orange man bad? 🤔
@@-ahvilable-6654 nahh I'm just proud that I'm an orange. No emojis might give a wrong context 😅
@@vojacked305 orange man bad leader
I am orange lol
Then you could say Trump is light brown
This video helps so much. I've definitely gotten weird confused looks whenever there was a shade of brown that I couldn't quite tell if it was orange or brown, but others clearly saw it as brown.
I no longer feel crazy
Wow, this may be the longest informative TH-cam video I’ve ever watched and couldn’t bring myself to stop at any point or fast forward at any point. Packed full of information, and entertaining at the same time.
The fact that brown is dark orange is actually quite useful if you’re using a paint program or something with that kind of color selector
This video is why I can digitally paint in Orange now. I was literally finding ways to get around the color brown until now.
I figured out a while ago you can achieve a nice skin color by desaturating a dark orange
Man it's annoying to find brown
I read your name as Lord fetish
@@Kionum -_- you aint the first
my online friends : “what skin color do you have?”
me : “dark orange.”
🧩
Same
Donald Trump: *Visible happiness*
@@booyah344 he would say light brown 😂
Lmao
Love this video. Another thing that doesn't exist is a flame. It's just a stream of gas that has attained a luminous temperature; a temperature that falls within the visible spectrum. Perhaps a video examining flames?
Just came across your channel, this is the first video I’ve seen from you and it’s very well done! Never thought I’d watch 20min of a dude explaining to me the nuance of language and the color brown, but here we are and it was great!
"This works best when in a pitch black room"
Me watching this at 3am:
"It's like I was made for this"
@Eissari4 I want that on a shirt, preferably a comfy t-shirt to wear whilst watching youtube, at 4am.
Me too!!
That used to be me but now I work day shift and have to up at 5 in the morning. I also didn't turn off my bright LED light in my room but I still saw the effect by focusing in on my screen.
My moment has come!
Same
“Brown doesn’t really exist”
Me a with brown skin: “Mr. Stark I don’t feel so good” *fades away*
your skin is the color it is regardless of what we call it
also I think all orange is secretly brown, brown isn't secretly orange
Brown is just orange with context
You wouldn't fade away you would change pigment
I would like but it's at 69
Alec Ryan G-Get it? Because 69?
@@laurenpinschannels I wouldn't say one is actually the other, just that they're the same, in the same way that dark green isn't actually green or vice versa, just that they're the same
amazing video! you certainly did well on making a video on something so 'mundane' as a color, i was interested the whole video and learned some new things!
This is the first time ive watched your videos with closed captioning, and I was delighted with the little meya humor. Once again I find myself impressed with the level of attention to detail you put into these videos, even just to deliver a joke.
"Doctor my poo is orange!"
"WHAT?"
"Yes a very dark orange!"
you never ate a whole box of cheez its?
doctor: "Dim the light in your toilet."
C O N T E X T U A L O R A N G E
That pfp, its scares me
To your profile pic: JUST DO IT ALREADY!!!
And then there’s the digital artists watching this that knew brown was dark orange all along
yeah
Normies: Wait... it's all orange?
Artists: Always has been.
yep
yeah, getting brown color is always weird
@Mk. 5 TIL thanks
This channel is reminiscent of educational videos my elementary school teachers would put in class. It's kind of comforting in a way.
That truly was fascinating information! Thank you so much for sharing both of the RGB videos. Entertaining and absolutely fascinating.
The thing that really helped this concept 'click' for me: there's no such thing as gray light. You can dim a white light source but it's always white.
imagine that would happen.
As someone who deals with projectors a lot, it is kind of hard to convey the simple truth about projectors that they, by the laws of physics, cannot project darkness. It can only make other pixels brighter by comparison. So a projected pixel cannot be darker than the white screens surrounding illumination lets it.
When I was little I had a life crisis over actual black light. I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that a black light wasn’t a black light. What is a black light of a black light isn’t a black light? WtfffffFfFf?
"we named this color until we realized its not actually a color but now we can't unname it and it's weird"
We named the color that we perceive
Dark orange
Midnight / TPB but orange used to be called red
We can fix that by naming all dark colors
@@UsefullPig in spanish that's also the case: darker blues are just "azul" and lighter blues (almost heading toward cyan sometimes) are "celeste".
8:55 I only see orange as a flash during the transition. Very cool thanks
Understanding how to trick the eye like that is the key in painting. I didn't really learn much from this, but it was nice to see that art can be applied more broadly :)
Thanks hope you're doing well!
"I speak Mandarin."
"...and if you take away the brightness in my voice, you will hear that I actually am speaking Brown."
Well done!
Excellent.
Good one! xD
我讲华文，如果你把我的声音暗掉，你会听到我会讲“褐色”
oh yea，in madarin we call brown 褐色
Does this mean my brown hair is actually "Dark Ginger"?
I wasn't ready for the implications of this comment.
If you think it is. It is. Definitions change over time. Congrats on your thought process. When I see a police car w/ its lights on. "I think the purple got him/her another one." purple = police. You will now think Brown hair = dark ginger hair. But in a sentence. Look at that dark ginger-haired person over there. Sounds funny, or possibly racist whatever mindset the other people around you are in. You could get into some hot water. It's fun to make your brain think differently than others.
My 2 cents. We as a society have been calling black people "black" but, really we should be calling them orange? It puts a new meaning to "orange is the new black."
Pretty much lol. Humans make such a big deal about being different, but we're all just a mix of the same basic stuff.
Technically every hair natural colour(apart from white which is the absence of brown pigment) is a shade of brown... So yes?
@korbencabby O-M-G!
Enjoyed this a lot!! As an artist who loves all color including brown, this was “enlightening”
Brown. So incredibly on-brand for this channel
so, basically you could call "brown" "midnight-Orange", "Forest Orange", "Dark Orange", or "Wood Orange".
Wood is brown, brown isn't real, wood isn't real. This is proof we're all in a simulation.
I will adhere to wood orange
Navy orange
Poop Orange
i like midnight-orange
"Does brown exist?"
"Yesn't."
so much underappreciated comment. :D
Well yes but, actually no.
Jein.
th-cam.com/video/Vh4Ta2DH1pM/w-d-xo.html
Brown is orange where the sun doesn't shine.
Great video. I learned a bit, but besides that, I was engaged and entertained throughout. I've seen a couple of your other videos, and I'm going to seek out more. 🙂
I was never a fan of brown, especially when I was a kid. When I painted in preschool I was a fan of all colors but always got frustrated whenever I try to come up with a new color combination, but always got brown whenever I mixed three colors. Great video btw
"Brown is a weird color."
The 1970s: And I took that personally.
huh? (Like my comment when you respond so I can get a nofitaction)
@HenriK Hald oh ok , thanks👑
@@alexandria_aesthetic also, people back then was racist
@@Useless_Rift an they still are 😔
@@sexfuk2119 he meant deeply racist. Stores black people couldn't go in, foods we couldn't eat and we could barely travel. Weren't equal under the law what so ever.
“We can’t take away light”
*unscrews and steals lightbulb*
I bet you feel so stupid right now
Blank stare...
😶
So you are brown after all
STOP. YOU VIOLATED THE LAW.
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@@wrentheelf2656 YOUR STOLEN GOODS ARE *NOW* FOREFIT.
I think this is the first time a youtuber got me to do anything, and it was worth it. Very good explanation/demonstration! (As I now sit in the dark)
One of my favourite gemstones is smokey quartz, a brown variety of quartz. It's absolutely gorgeous in gold jewellery and very much an underrated gemstone, in my opinion
Basicaly the whole point of this video:
-No?
-Yes
-Yes?
-No
Мамка Твоя Oh my god 😂😂
No, well actually yes..... but no
Мамка Твоя yesn’t
exactly
binary 0110
"Rainbows aren't physical objects. They're just the result of weird things that happen when electromagnetic radiation gets diffracted and reflected through water droplets and observed from one location in space."
Leprechauns are having to get really technical protecting their pot of gold these days huh.
They may not be physical, but they represent the only objects you can see that are single wavelength color (i.e., "spectral" color). Everything else in the world is mixes of colors that the brain interprets to be pure, but are not.
WOW, I never would have expected so much of a positive understanding of colors, color wheel, light, and of course Brown, from the title of this video. BRILLIANT video, huge thank you!
Probably one of your most interesting videos. I miss you braking down simple devices as well. I'd show them off to students. Like the touch lamp, rice cooker, tape deck aux cord. Keep up the good work.
Can't wait to see my doctors face when i tell her my stool is dark orange.
LMAO
_Good idea!_
My diagnosis is, you have bowel cancer
Here I am, sitting on the toilet and this video appears on my recommended videos list. Smart phones are getting just a little too smart if you ask me.
Do you have a wooden stool?
So you’re telling me that brown is a social construct.
All words are social constructs. Words allow us to make certain things distinct. Without specific words to make things distinct, we don't recognize said things as their own separate thing. Brown is as much of a social construct as Red. The difference is, most colours were named after differences in hue or differences on the light spectrum where as Brown is a colour that is different not in hue but in brightness. What this means is that it really isn't exactly real. Well, it's a real colour but there is no such thing as brown light. Just as there is no such thing as grey light or pink light. Colour doesn't really exist. Light exists but colour is a human perception of that light. Technically, light only 'exists' on the colour spectrum on the axis of hue. Saturation and brightness of colour is a construct of a brain over any social construct. So brown, like pink and grey, are three colours that are different because they only exist because our brain told us they exist. They have no real existence outside our brains.
Pagatryx 😳
@@pagatryx5451 thank you for this. i guess you just summed out the whole video
If brown is a social construct than the universe is a physical manifestation for all our random thoughts
@@pagatryx5451 there's also the fact that there's a whole spectrum outside of the little "visible light" part. Imagine what kind of colors would be produced from a mind and eyes capable of detecting and processing everything from radiowaves UV microwaves gamma etc.
The premise got my attention, Hew-y, Duey, Louie reference got my like. Great video lol
You did a good job at making a mundane topic into a good video. Also, i love brown too! I relate to you even more now : )
“Human skins are different shades of orange” - Neil Harbisson, who can hear color
LIke Trump?
he can't actually hear color tho, his brain just mixes stuff up^^
@@johnuferbach9166 untrue, colors have wavelengths just like sounds do. Synesthesia means you have INCREASED communication between sensory regions not that the sensory regions are misfiring or in a sense of disorder.
@@jessicat3762 that both have wavelength does not matter here, unless you are trying to tell me, that somehow the eye can see sound waves all of a sudden^^ (or the ear somehow vibrates at a couple hundred gigahertz^^)
But yeah, I meant the brain is doing unnormal stuff that connects things that are normally not connected, but the output of the sensors isn't changed
@@johnuferbach9166 you can kind of see sound waves in the right conditions. Explosions, for example, create overpressure which you can see. If you pour sand or salt or anything granular over a plate and place that over a speaker you can actually see the sound waves. And yeah, I know that you need something else to see them. Atmosphere for overpressure and sand for my second example, meaning that you dont actually see the sound but to be fair you cant actually see an object's color either. What you see is the light it reflects off of it and you perceive that as it's color. I dont actually have too much of a problem with what you're saying btw, I just kinda wanted to be fair to both sides of this discussion. I believe that you are correct in that he can't actually hear colors, he's just developed another way of percieving them.
This video is just “yes but actually no”
no it isn’t
Hey! Vsauce, Michael here. Brown is a color like any other.
OR IS IT?
“Life liek meem”
Fyi, this is the first of your videos that I have watched, and the one that got me to subscribe to your channels.😊
Hey Alec,
I love your main channels and listen to them as I fall asleep. I watch your secret 3rd channel sometimes.
“It’s just orange with context” sounds like a punchline to a joke that I don’t know the set up to
Jesus Phish I know of at least one; it’s here in the comments section
Trump is Orange without context
“It’s just orange with context” sounds like a bullshit zen koan =D
Brown is apparently not the only colour like this. Purple is also magenta/pink with the same sort of context. Maroon is also red with that same context.
There is a difference between the way we perceive objects that reflect light and objects that emit light.
@@Myrtone Actually purple is a shade of violet, which IS one of the legit colors on the spectrum. Why are there 7 colors in the rainbow? There are seven colors in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet
Yeah, as a digital artist it always trips me up when I want to use a darker shade of orange and I end up choosing between a bunch of browns. It’s like, no! I don’t want brown I want a darker shade of orange!
Turn the brightness up but keep the saturation!
Yep it's me in the school trying to select "not so bright yellow" in Paint with no success
You want tremendously saturated orange.
Haha idk why but this was really funny 😆
Maybe there is just no such thing as a darker orange, what he calls an "orange" in this video I wouldn't call orange, ok, it's a borderline case, you could call it dark orange, but when thinking about orange I would never think about "dark orange"
This was really interesting. By the way I really dig the Orange blazer you are wearing in this video.
I liked that you described how colors are human constructs. I have always thought it was interesting to see how different people experience color so differently. Personally I experience color with what I think is extreme granularity, such that I see everything as distinct colors, rather than just variations of hues in lightness, darkness, saturation. Might have been partly a result of growing up using color tools like large Prismacolor pencil sets that had distinct names for every color variant, and using that and the natural world’s complexity as my color indices, rather than a color wheel or generic simplifications of color. Really interesting video, looking forward to checking out more of your channel! 🤓
That's impossible, no amount of words could describe the true diversity of color.
@@pandemicphilly60 You don't seem to have understood what I said. I see different browns, blues, greens, reds, yellows, etc that are all distinct and not just lighter, darker, more/less saturated versions of those colors. So I see mossy green, ash gray, lime green, bubble gum pink, strawberry red, etc. I did not say that I perfectly see every possible color. I'm not a mantis shrimp, and even they cannot see every possible wavelength of light despite having 12 kinds of color sensing cones compared to a human's mere three. I'm only talking about how I relate to colors, not you.
Me, 22 minutes ago: "How can you talk about brown for 21 minutes?"
Me, now: Hmmm, yes...fascinating
I knew a builder in the 90’s and his favourite color was always “mission brown”
Brown is also my favorite color.
True story, when I was in school I took band, and back then if you took band you didn't get to go to art classes.
Fast forward,
Sophomore high school i took electronics and I learned about RGB primary colors. Since I hadn't had art classes I didn't know about paints primary colors. That year i got a job at a live theater to do lighting. I had a very hard time with it because I didn't know paint had different primary colors.
I love this channel!
“Yes, this sure is dark. Not a lot to see here that’s for sure.” 8:00
My ugly ass reflection staring at me: 👁👄👁
You best be watching that bit in the dark buddy!
I agree, _I can see your reflection right now_
After I read your comment the reflection in it looked like: 😄
mood
*My phone showing a grey screen*
I feel like brown has an underrated capacity to look classy while also being warmer and more inviting than other “classy” colors, like blue, black, or grey.
It feels like home. The color is the same as land or nourishing soil. Or a comforting tree. I think green and brown would be a color a human on a foreign planet would start to miss.
The first Zune had a brown option. It... decidedly did not look classy. I think the idea that brown is contextual applies to how it's used as well.
@@ArtForSwans Oh, definitely! I completely agree that brown is not always classy. I would argue any color has the capacity to look un-classy or inappropriate in a given context. That's part of the reason for having design, so that things are right for their situation.
Think about leather
@@sas3dx like this? th-cam.com/video/E_HMIN0nGl0/w-d-xo.html
"Orange wasn't a colour until we stole the word from the fruit" ... true.
Red deer, red squirrels, red hair ... they're all orange.
17:41 The copper wiring with less light appears brown and more light makes it orange. The energy for the LED light travels through this brown material.
Day 167 in quarantine : I now know everything about the "color" brown
*colour.
@@dubbled5287 this is America
@@jokey8461°○°
@@dubbled5287 Actually, both ways of writing "color" are correct. It depends on the country.
British:Colour
America:Color
Colors are odd
I was wearing a brown shirt and asked my 4 year old what color is the shirt he replied dark orange. He was correct after all.
Damn r/imverysmart
Probably because his view on colors isn't influenced by language yet. If you taught him to call dark orange brown and, let's say, dark green xyz, you could probably show him a dark orange and dark green shirt in a few years and he would swear on both of his parents that brown and xyz are definitly not forms of orange and green.
This doesnt work because we can say white is just super light red
@@Monk-E white is all (visible) wavelengths equally. it is not bright anything.
@@okovermekeamglight4563 Well it is light everything...
I wasn't ready for that last line at the end. Perfection.
This video delivered way more content than advertised -- well done!
0:32
This guys examples for brown were: Wood, Wood, Beans, Beans.
Did you want him to say niggas?
@@realerdealers1924 ha ha, funny. ---__---
Coffee beans aren't actually beans, they're seeds. Also almonds and I think hazelnuts were shown.
@@smapa1185 beans
@@rndmbs Nuts and beans are different... beans are legumes, nuts can be legumes (like peanuts) but are not necessarily legumes.
so that means that every kid who colored people orange was technically right
yeah man i never had those sweet sweet s k i n pencils
@@Daniel-qn3wr the crayola color "peach" was originally known as "flesh", but it was changed for... obvious reasons
so you're not wrong
Cameron T what the hell
@@subparlario4916 yeah, i could remember borrowing peach from my classmates lmao. Although my parents refer to it as flesh lol
@@subparlario4916 is this actually true
I love my brown skin. I enjoy wearing brown suits and specially brown shoes! Great video!
I love your shirt. We had those VHS tapes when I was a kid, and I recognized it immediately.
"Brown is just orange, but darker..." - what does this mean for Trump when he dims the lights?
😆
Nighttime self-xenophobia?
So, perhaps not a scandanavian then!
But he would have to make the lights around him brighter so that the orange appears darke in relation. :)
"NO NO! Shut those lights off!" Now we know why
My mom came into my room and wondered why I was listening to a guy rant about the colour brown whilst locked in my darkened closet.
Why are you in a cl-
*sees name*
Ah. I see
@@randallmokjialung3592 the joke was there was an illusion that works best in the dark in this video
That rings a bell!! From a color theory student! My big thanks!! 🙏🙏🙏
Clear, entertaining and fascinating. Thanks!
"Are you in your dark place?"
Too real man
Alec it's 1am, of course I am
That's my secret. I'm always in my dark place.
Too soon
We don't have windows at toilet so yes
8:13 I can’t believe I actually went and locked myself in my dark bathroom because a TH-cam video told me to.
Same
Same xD
Yeah me too
Same! It actually works even with lights on 🤦🏻♂️
I can't believe I just watched a 21 minute video on the color brown.
Since this video came out, Robert's "taste the brown" has lived in my head.
This was wonderful. Thank you ☀️
“What did you do on Valentine’s Day?”
“Watched a man explaining the color brown.”
I’m not kidding when I say that I am fascinated by this. I had this question for multiple times when editing something in photoshop for example. I just asked myself “what the hell even is the color brown?”
The part where you showed us the “context” of the color surrounding that brown (or dark orange) really opened my eyes.
Fascinating stuff man!
This video is the definition of: 'Well yes, but actually no.'
stop please
@Mario get out of here nerd
"I'm surprised he's not going into subtractive color since he used paints as an example" I was thinking, and then soon after the tangent began :)
This is an excellent video, and very interesting topic