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!
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.
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.
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?
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
@@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*
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.
“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!
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.
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!
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"
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)
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" :)
@@samplesample7178 And in Russian, the colors that we just call "light blue" and "dark blue" are considered two distinct colors: "goluboy" and "siniy" respectively.
When I was a kid, I didn't understand how pink was just light red, and I couldn't tell the difference between pink and magenta. Learning color theory shifted my entire understanding of the world.
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
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."
because the three combined are black. all you need to do to make brown is ensure that the ratios of the three main colors give predominantly red with a bit of green and you have 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
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
"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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
@@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.
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.)
@@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
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?
This type of analysis isn’t really right - something doesn’t stop existing just because you define it. Pink is light red, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. A table is just a flat thing on legs, but that doesn’t mean there are no tables.
This represents exactly the shortfall of digital photography in respect to film. If you look at color film photos, you will see rich beautiful browns, whereas digital photos have orangeish hues.
13:15 Similarly, to this day "cyan" has never felt like a distinct color to me because I never learned it as a kid. To me Cyans are blues, or blue-greens
Omg same! I always called it turquoise or teal or light blue. I only found out it existed from playing Minecraft and among us lol but It still feels weird to say
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
Imagine how I feel having watched about 45 minutes of previous videos first to put it into context... Actually, this is timely because I'm going to be doing some graphics in RGB today.
Imagine how I feel having watched about 45 minutes of previous videos first to put it in context... Actually, this is timely because I will be working on some RGB graphics today.
I first thought, "Aw man, is Technology Connections already running out of ideas?!" I never knew that this man could interest me with such a simple topic and make it super detailed. Brown M&Ms, yes...
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.
@@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 entire episode made my heart glow. From the absolute perfection that is your quirky humor to the cross-pollination with another creator to ending the credits with Justin Brown... just one hit after another. Great work and thank you SO MUCH for delving deeply into a subject that has literally been part of my mental processes for years. I, too, have thought longer and harder about the color brown than I felt anyone else around me did. Thank you for being you and for making our blue eyes brown with this one. (That's a good thing)
Just saw my favorite car channel show up in a video on my favorite tech channel, scrolled down to make a stupid comment, and Deviant's here too?? This is some Twilight Zone stuff.
Right! This channel is one of my favourite discoveries of last year, the quirky exploration of all the things this man finds interesting is just fascinating.
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.
You succeeded sir. My wife sitting nearby, said at your opening line "oooh that sounds riveting" or some such. By the end of it we were both hooked. Well done and very informative thank you.
Brown is also the colors of tons of people’s skin, so having it be known as a gross color is actually really mean. I also think we as society should give it some love since it is also coffee, chocolate, trees, and entire countries of people.
in Indonesian language, we called "brown" as "coklat" which comes from the word " chocolate". The weird thing is, chocolate was introduced by Spanish colonialists around the 16th century from South America. So before that, we didn't even recognize the color brown and didn't have a specific word for it. What makes me curious is, we do have a native word for orange (unlike European) which is "jingga", I wonder if we just considered brown as one of the shades of orange before we invented the word "coklat". Another interesting thing, as Asian our eye color is dark brown, but we never recognize it as brown but as black
@@fetterkeks2796 Orange is the name we came up with, we didn’t get the name from anywhere. I mean we did get it from somewhere, but it doesn’t even vaguely resemble the original name. And when I say « we » I mean we French, English and apparently Germans took it from the name we gave it, we gave a name to it that’s…. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to have been similar to an Italian word, or with the same structure as the Italian word for it (aka a literal translation that used all French words). Either way it’s not like non Europeans had a word « orange » for the orange fruit and we took that and also called the color with the same name, there was a non European word from orange that either inspired or was completely transformed into orange
"It's a color that doesn't really exist. Okay, it does, but also kind of doesn't. It literally depends on how you see things" See also: The concept of sight
something that opened my eyes to this was as a game developer when i tried to create dirt sprites and i kept thinking "this isn't brown damn it this is orange" spent hours trying different "browns" not realising it was all technically orange.
@@jamesowen6100, maybe technically, but not by custom. English has "light blue," not "bright blue." Interestingly, we don't really have "light red," we have "pink." Other languages have a version of "pink" for "light blue."
@@ahwhite2022 maybe that is because in nature we have a lot more red than blue. Like in flowers, you have red, pink, purple and many more, but blue is not really a color that occurs in nature outside the sky, which is not a solid object, so it's different again
@Sepanta Jan what I mean to say is that orange is increased light value brown, not increased saturation brown, because brown can already be fully saturated. But that brings up the confusion, is bright and light talking about saturation or value? To me, light brown means desaturated brown, but now that I think about, light brown should be increased value brown, or orange
I tried so hard one time to make my mechanical keyboard brown and I couldn’t comprehend why I got brown on my rgb monitor and not on my rgb keyboard. Thank you for this video
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!
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.
@@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.
my favorite color is brown and i do a bunch of art and brown really does show up via context. sometimes i have used "brown" but it is actually a dark desaturated red, orange, yellow, and sometimes purple (when surrounded by a bunch of blue). It's the reason why in art, "neutral" colors are black, gray, white, and brown because you can make brown with almost any color depending on the color that surrounds it. this video really is a scientific version of color theory from art.
This is what I came to the comments for! I paint and I’m finding that it is so fun to read about the moment everyone learned that brown is actually not a real color 😂
Brown is the color of shit, dirt, decay, mundanity, and commonality. I applaud you having it as your favorite color. The world doesn't exactly need curiosities but it's funnier for it.
"Brown is just Muted-Orange with brighter things around it" is an excellent cheat, holy shit. As an artist I always struggled to get the brownness of something across but that's 100% the formula now that you lay it out. I also like guitars and it always struck me how orange guitars look when in a dim display room under spotlights.
@@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.
@@skyletoft Fun fact: Noah Webster (of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language fame) worked to "rationalize" the spelling of the language he tried to rename "American." That's why we dropped the superfluous "u" in words like color, and also why we tend to represent the "z" sound with a z instead of an s in words like rationalize. Not every spelling of his was adopted though, like his suggestion of "aker" instead of "acre", nor did we stop calling the language "English." As the title of his dictionary suggests, he eventually admitted defeat on the naming front.
The fun thing is, if you have something brown/orange in your hands and if you think about dark orange or bright brown, your head percepts the object differently. Im having way too much fun with this.
@@Channel-xy2wj It’s probably because those around you don’t think of color that way, so while you know and use the other labels, culture has deeply influenced your perception of brown. I agree about the puke yellow thing too tho most people I know call it green or puke color in any ordinary context and only call it puke yellow when specifically talking about the color.
We’ve just been taught to think of brown as a singular colour rather than dark Orange, while indigo and the others mentioned in the examples we know have associations with one or more colours such as purple etc. Cause in the end, even those pukey colours have names, we just haven’t been taught them
No it doesn't. We describe a subset of something and we now call it that. But it remains what is is or how it looks. In the colour wheel its the same colour no matter if you call it brown or dark orange
That's actually an interesting question, because if you look at the names for bear in some languages (think of "bruin") in English, they literally mean "brown one." The ancient root for bear is seen in the Greek "arctos". The reason for this is that bears were considered powerful and sacred; you didn't call it an "arctos" because that might invite one to be in your presence, so they were referred to obliquely as "the brown one" or other euphemisms. So while our word for the color orange is named after the fruit, our words for a bear come from the color, which itself comes from an old word for "dusky". A good book on bear mythology is The Sacred Paw by Paul Shepard, Barry Sanders, and Gary Snyder.
@@five-toedslothbear4051 Language (and etymology) is fun. Speaking of "orange" that word actually comes from the *tree* not the fruit. The fruit was called "the fruit of the orange tree" before we called it "an orange" (the color was then later derived from the color of said fruit). Might I recommend the channel Xidnaf?
If you saw a dim green parrot you'd just call it a dark green bear or forest green bear, but "dark orange bear" doesn't have the same feel as "brown bear"
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! 🤓
@@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.
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.
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
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?
Well it's a blue one of course.
"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
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
@@ЯнПоздняков-у9в what is it
@@christianseibold3369 yeah ik it's heavily debated i was joking
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?
“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
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@@idkidk9522 Fortnite? more like, Fartnite. hehe... fartnite... he....
Get it? cause I hate fortnite? huh? no? ok...
@@imnotvladimirputin fortnite is trash
"Maybe red-yellow.... Rellow?..."
My brain: *YED*
YED.
My brain: Scooby Doo?
СБК ummm orange? Or should I say LIGHT BROWN
RELLOW
YELLED
The aging wheels cameo caught me extremely off guard but I love both of your channels!
What's his other channel
@@nomusicrcAging Wheels
“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
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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
"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
“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!
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.
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"
"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?????
😭🤣🤣🤣
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)
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" :)
@@samplesample7178 And in Russian, the colors that we just call "light blue" and "dark blue" are considered two distinct colors: "goluboy" and "siniy" respectively.
When I was a kid, I didn't understand how pink was just light red, and I couldn't tell the difference between pink and magenta. Learning color theory shifted my entire understanding of the world.
Whats the color theory
When i was a kid i didnt even know that there was a color called magenta
I always saw pink and orange as two sides of the same coin for that reason.
Pink is my least favourite colour because it’s just a worse version of red to my brain
MAGENTA ISNT REAL
"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.
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!
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
interestingly, if you mix ideal complementary colors, you _should_ get grey, not brown, but pigments in the real world are rarely perfect colors.
because the three combined are black. all you need to do to make brown is ensure that the ratios of the three main colors give predominantly red with a bit of green and you have brown.
I tend to get a grayish color but I do like to play with softer colors
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
Bright brown doesn't look like orange though, it's just beige.
@@Thukuna.my_thpecial rember*
"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*
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
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
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
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.
“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
This channel is reminiscent of educational videos my elementary school teachers would put in class. It's kind of comforting in a way.
"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
"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.
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.
"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
@@MitsyWuzHere in spanish that's also the case: darker blues are just "azul" and lighter blues (almost heading toward cyan sometimes) are "celeste".
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
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
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
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
Me, 22 minutes ago: "How can you talk about brown for 21 minutes?"
Me, now: Hmmm, yes...fascinating
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?
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.
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...
“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.
"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
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?
This type of analysis isn’t really right - something doesn’t stop existing just because you define it. Pink is light red, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. A table is just a flat thing on legs, but that doesn’t mean there are no tables.
This is one of those things that once you find out, it seems obvious.
Ikr
It is obvious if you tried to get brown in any graphics program
@@mittron2556 yeah, I didn’t even use graphic software when I found out about this (I used geometry dash)
This represents exactly the shortfall of digital photography in respect to film.
If you look at color film photos, you will see rich beautiful browns, whereas digital photos have orangeish hues.
spend five seconds trying to design a Waja and you'll get there
The chinese caught me off guard, but then again, nothing surprises me about Alec anymore.
I believe he has mentioned that before in a video. Can’t say which though.
And there I was, thinking I was special, just cause I learned Russian in high school
I learned pig Latin.
@@usaverageguy You mean, "Igpay Atinlay"? 😝
One of his days Alec will make a video just to reveal in the end that his dick was on fire the whole time.
13:15 Similarly, to this day "cyan" has never felt like a distinct color to me because I never learned it as a kid. To me Cyans are blues, or blue-greens
Omg same! I always called it turquoise or teal or light blue. I only found out it existed from playing Minecraft and among us lol but It still feels weird to say
@@1er1s light blue is cyan man... its means the same thing
@@KopieOG Omg yay
@@KopieOG actully cyan and light blue are very diffrent
@@ellenjones1569 man.... cyan is fucking light blue color its litterally another name for it
As a colorblind, I feel slightly vindicated for the times people have laughed at me for confusing a dark/faded orange with brown
"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
"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
Wow I've never appreciated my last name so much. Thank you sir!
Well said brother
Now there are 2 of them, this is getting out of hand!
Ryan DarkOrange
@@jeremiahevans4175 Thanks for the laugh!
Your last name doesn't really exist
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
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
Damn, I really just watched a 20 minute video about a color.
And it was fantastic.
Sure it is
*about a not color
Didn't even notice until now
Imagine how I feel having watched about 45 minutes of previous videos first to put it into context...
Actually, this is timely because I'm going to be doing some graphics in RGB today.
Imagine how I feel having watched about 45 minutes of previous videos first to put it in context...
Actually, this is timely because I will be working on some RGB graphics today.
I first thought, "Aw man, is Technology Connections already running out of ideas?!"
I never knew that this man could interest me with such a simple topic and make it super detailed. Brown M&Ms, yes...
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.
*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
“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
“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*
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 entire episode made my heart glow. From the absolute perfection that is your quirky humor to the cross-pollination with another creator to ending the credits with Justin Brown... just one hit after another. Great work and thank you SO MUCH for delving deeply into a subject that has literally been part of my mental processes for years. I, too, have thought longer and harder about the color brown than I felt anyone else around me did.
Thank you for being you and for making our blue eyes brown with this one. (That's a good thing)
fancy seeing you here
Two of my favorite thing explainers in one place! Collab idea: Offensive Technology Connections
Just saw my favorite car channel show up in a video on my favorite tech channel, scrolled down to make a stupid comment, and Deviant's here too??
This is some Twilight Zone stuff.
Right! This channel is one of my favourite discoveries of last year, the quirky exploration of all the things this man finds interesting is just fascinating.
I keep stumbling across you in the most wonderful corners of the internet deviant ollam ❤️ I can't wait to see where our paths cross next!
This video is the definition of: 'Well yes, but actually no.'
stop please
@Mario get out of here nerd
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.
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.
You succeeded sir. My wife sitting nearby, said at your opening line "oooh that sounds riveting" or some such. By the end of it we were both hooked. Well done and very informative thank you.
10% interest because I’m an artist
90% interest because Brown is my last name
You only think that Brown is your last name.
Nah your last name is Orange, brown doesn't exist.
100% why I’m here....cousin
Look at your last name on a dark background and you'll be surprised
Holy shit same I’m an artist and my last name is fkn brown
"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!!!
Brown is also the colors of tons of people’s skin, so having it be known as a gross color is actually really mean. I also think we as society should give it some love since it is also coffee, chocolate, trees, and entire countries of people.
in Indonesian language, we called "brown" as "coklat" which comes from the word " chocolate". The weird thing is, chocolate was introduced by Spanish colonialists around the 16th century from South America. So before that, we didn't even recognize the color brown and didn't have a specific word for it. What makes me curious is, we do have a native word for orange (unlike European) which is "jingga", I wonder if we just considered brown as one of the shades of orange before we invented the word "coklat".
Another interesting thing, as Asian our eye color is dark brown, but we never recognize it as brown but as black
The idea of calling brown eyes straight up "black" is so freaky to me!
What do you mean « unlike Europeans » ?
@@nathanjora7627 Do you have one where you're from? In Germany we only got orange and that's it.
@@fetterkeks2796 Orange is the name we came up with, we didn’t get the name from anywhere. I mean we did get it from somewhere, but it doesn’t even vaguely resemble the original name. And when I say « we » I mean we French, English and apparently Germans took it from the name we gave it, we gave a name to it that’s…. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to have been similar to an Italian word, or with the same structure as the Italian word for it (aka a literal translation that used all French words).
Either way it’s not like non Europeans had a word « orange » for the orange fruit and we took that and also called the color with the same name, there was a non European word from orange that either inspired or was completely transformed into orange
@@nathanjora7627 interesting, thanks!
my online friends : “what skin color do you have?”
me : “dark orange.”
🧩
Same
Donald Trump: *Visible happiness*
@@booyah344 he would say light brown 😂
Lmao
“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.
@@RF-Ataraxia PAY THE COURT A FINE OR SERVE YOUR SENTENCE.
@@wrentheelf2656 YOUR STOLEN GOODS ARE *NOW* FOREFIT.
Great video! Reminds me of the color pink. We could just call it "light red" but we don't.
"It's a color that doesn't really exist. Okay, it does, but also kind of doesn't. It literally depends on how you see things"
See also: The concept of sight
That entire sentence would be something from Vsauce
something that opened my eyes to this was as a game developer when i tried to create dirt sprites and i kept thinking "this isn't brown damn it this is orange" spent hours trying different "browns" not realising it was all technically 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.
8:55 I only see orange as a flash during the transition. Very cool thanks
The word "orange" is much newer than "brown", so it would make more sense to call orange "light brown".
Technically wouldn't bit be bright brown rather than light brown?
@@jamesowen6100, maybe technically, but not by custom. English has "light blue," not "bright blue." Interestingly, we don't really have "light red," we have "pink." Other languages have a version of "pink" for "light blue."
@@ahwhite2022 maybe that is because in nature we have a lot more red than blue. Like in flowers, you have red, pink, purple and many more, but blue is not really a color that occurs in nature outside the sky, which is not a solid object, so it's different again
@Sepanta Jan what I mean to say is that orange is increased light value brown, not increased saturation brown, because brown can already be fully saturated. But that brings up the confusion, is bright and light talking about saturation or value? To me, light brown means desaturated brown, but now that I think about, light brown should be increased value brown, or orange
@Sepanta Jan Thats odd. I thought you were replying to me because I got a notification from TH-cam
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 tried so hard one time to make my mechanical keyboard brown and I couldn’t comprehend why I got brown on my rgb monitor and not on my rgb keyboard. Thank you for this video
No offense, but why brown for your rgb keyboard
skeylinktenking brown works well with pretty much every color
why 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!
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.
So, I don’t have brown eyes; my eyes color is “contextual orange”
From now on this will be part of my vocabulary!
Never mind all that crap, he should do the Brown Noise. I know it's only myth but he should play with it.
@@MrDustpile I sure would love that to be truth right now
@@MrDustpile Brown noise exists.
same lol
my favorite color is brown and i do a bunch of art and brown really does show up via context. sometimes i have used "brown" but it is actually a dark desaturated red, orange, yellow, and sometimes purple (when surrounded by a bunch of blue).
It's the reason why in art, "neutral" colors are black, gray, white, and brown because you can make brown with almost any color depending on the color that surrounds it.
this video really is a scientific version of color theory from art.
Imagine brown being your favourite colour. Wtf
Yes, and mixing complementary colors make mud, otherwise known as a brown.
This is what I came to the comments for! I paint and I’m finding that it is so fun to read about the moment everyone learned that brown is actually not a real color 😂
I thought I was defective when I was young. My mom had a brown outfit that had the ghost of purple shining out when under fluorescent lighf
Brown is the color of shit, dirt, decay, mundanity, and commonality. I applaud you having it as your favorite color. The world doesn't exactly need curiosities but it's funnier for it.
"Brown is just Muted-Orange with brighter things around it" is an excellent cheat, holy shit. As an artist I always struggled to get the brownness of something across but that's 100% the formula now that you lay it out.
I also like guitars and it always struck me how orange guitars look when in a dim display room under spotlights.
"Are you in your dark place?"
Every day, my friend. Every day...
dont get browned off, it'll be all white
hello darkness, my old friend
My exact words were something like "Are you in your dark place?" "Always, bro."
Samesies
All humans are brown. There are no black or white people.
"Taste the brown" is an underrated line. It got me good.
CrimsonQuandary Made me stop the video and go to the comment section to look for fans
When my son was six, he asked what colour is brown? Several years later, I see this was a far deeper question than it first seemed.
Brown. So incredibly on-brand for this channel
"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.
The Chinese “coffee colour” quip alone was enough to earn you the schoolboy nickname “Smart Alec”.
i wonder if mister baldwin or mister guinness dislike being called a Smart Alec?:)
isnt it spelled color. Which country are you from because they have different spelling.
@@primekrunkergamer188 Literally every other country in the anglosphere spells it that way
@@primekrunkergamer188 it's spelled "colour" in countries that have adopted British English and not American English.
@@skyletoft Fun fact: Noah Webster (of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language fame) worked to "rationalize" the spelling of the language he tried to rename "American." That's why we dropped the superfluous "u" in words like color, and also why we tend to represent the "z" sound with a z instead of an s in words like rationalize.
Not every spelling of his was adopted though, like his suggestion of "aker" instead of "acre", nor did we stop calling the language "English." As the title of his dictionary suggests, he eventually admitted defeat on the naming front.
"Are you in your dark place?"
Always.
Physically and Mentally
I prefer Garth Marenghi's Dark Place.
"Orange wasn't a colour until we stole the word from the fruit" ... true.
Red deer, red squirrels, red hair ... they're all orange.
That example at 13:50 is so important. We create a concept for something, it literally changes how the world looks.
The fun thing is, if you have something brown/orange in your hands and if you think about dark orange or bright brown, your head percepts the object differently.
Im having way too much fun with this.
@@Channel-xy2wj It’s probably because those around you don’t think of color that way, so while you know and use the other labels, culture has deeply influenced your perception of brown. I agree about the puke yellow thing too tho most people I know call it green or puke color in any ordinary context and only call it puke yellow when specifically talking about the color.
We’ve just been taught to think of brown as a singular colour rather than dark Orange, while indigo and the others mentioned in the examples we know have associations with one or more colours such as purple etc. Cause in the end, even those pukey colours have names, we just haven’t been taught them
I wonder what other things that concept relates too..
No it doesn't. We describe a subset of something and we now call it that. But it remains what is is or how it looks. In the colour wheel its the same colour no matter if you call it brown or dark orange
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
emo time
Teacher: What color is a bear?
Random kid: Dark orange
Me, being a smartass: "Black, sometimes white."
Panda anyone?
That's actually an interesting question, because if you look at the names for bear in some languages (think of "bruin") in English, they literally mean "brown one." The ancient root for bear is seen in the Greek "arctos". The reason for this is that bears were considered powerful and sacred; you didn't call it an "arctos" because that might invite one to be in your presence, so they were referred to obliquely as "the brown one" or other euphemisms. So while our word for the color orange is named after the fruit, our words for a bear come from the color, which itself comes from an old word for "dusky". A good book on bear mythology is The Sacred Paw by Paul Shepard, Barry Sanders, and Gary Snyder.
@@five-toedslothbear4051 Language (and etymology) is fun. Speaking of "orange" that word actually comes from the *tree* not the fruit. The fruit was called "the fruit of the orange tree" before we called it "an orange" (the color was then later derived from the color of said fruit).
Might I recommend the channel Xidnaf?
@@five-toedslothbear4051 huh, so that's why the Boston Bruins' name is what it is and mascot or whatever is a bear, the more you know.
In Turkish, brown is “kahverengi” which is like Chinese, means “Coffee color”
"There are some... Less appealing substances made of brown"
A certain jacket comes to mind.
He meant brown people
Erick bulyed me
Got dayum!
@@nrico6666 doodoo poopie people
@@njez7563 He meant feces
I never thought I'd say it, but brown is completely fantastic. This was honestly an incredibly interesting video.
lol
My favorite color, so varied
Me as a Mexican🤔do go on
DAMN GIRL
"oh look a very dim orange bear"
A brown bear is just an orange bear in context
He's not dim! He's smarter than your average bear!
If you saw a dim green parrot you'd just call it a dark green bear or forest green bear, but "dark orange bear" doesn't have the same feel as "brown bear"
@Saulius Adomaitis Winnie the Pooh is a dim (stupid) orange (literally) bear.
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.