Brown; color is weird

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  • @TechnologyConnections
    @TechnologyConnections  5 ปีที่แล้ว +11001

    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!

    • @tomgidden
      @tomgidden 5 ปีที่แล้ว +267

      I hate to say it, but your jacket isn't a million miles from 448C :/

    • @KevinT3141
      @KevinT3141 5 ปีที่แล้ว +223

      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.

    • @pricelesshistory
      @pricelesshistory 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      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.

    • @moi01887
      @moi01887 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Duh... beige is just light brown. So beige = orange. ;^)

    • @killsalot78
      @killsalot78 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      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.

  • @door-chan
    @door-chan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21524

    "Hey, what's your eye color?"
    " Uhh... *_c o n t e x t u a l o r a n g e_* "

    • @SYatesie
      @SYatesie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      Me too :3

    • @warwolf715
      @warwolf715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +440

      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
      @DanteYewToob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +409

      Trump is our second black president.
      He's a bright skinned black man.

    • @yusriyahbagheri8843
      @yusriyahbagheri8843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      @@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*

    • @kirayoshikage7122
      @kirayoshikage7122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hello jojo fan

  • @lordfeish1927
    @lordfeish1927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2354

    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

    • @dashiellgillingham4579
      @dashiellgillingham4579 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      This video is why I can digitally paint in Orange now. I was literally finding ways to get around the color brown until now.

    • @koibubbles3302
      @koibubbles3302 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      I figured out a while ago you can achieve a nice skin color by desaturating a dark orange

    • @lady_deaths_head
      @lady_deaths_head 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Man it's annoying to find brown

    • @Kionum
      @Kionum 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I read your name as Lord fetish

    • @lordfeish1927
      @lordfeish1927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Kionum -_- you aint the first

  • @Jus_Joj
    @Jus_Joj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17166

    as a colorblind guy who's got brown hair, the Revelation that brown is just orange, but darker, has actually rocked my world.

    • @gob8883
      @gob8883 4 ปีที่แล้ว +299

      same man, same.

    • @noahandrews628
      @noahandrews628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +457

      Can you describe that at all? Does it help you visualize what orange might look like?

    • @Erin0040
      @Erin0040 4 ปีที่แล้ว +267

      @@noahandrews628 no

    • @bobrowder4776
      @bobrowder4776 4 ปีที่แล้ว +479

      I’m also color blind so next time I confused orange and brown... technically I’m not though 😂

    • @andrewemery8495
      @andrewemery8495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      Who told you you had brown hair?

  • @dreariestcoma9254
    @dreariestcoma9254 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    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.

    • @annenelson5656
      @annenelson5656 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This sounds like part of the color theory class I had way back in art school. Bravo! It’s so nice to see someone who appreciates the art+science of color.

  • @011mph
    @011mph 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23498

    "brown doesn't really exist"
    Me, a person with brown skin, "so long my friends" *fades away *

    • @JohnSapato
      @JohnSapato 4 ปีที่แล้ว +355

      😂 Lol.

    • @troyforce1
      @troyforce1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2103

      Change de world
      My final message
      Goodbye

    • @alexschuster1618
      @alexschuster1618 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      😆

    • @lafleurstudios
      @lafleurstudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1666

      Trump is orange, african americans are dark orange.. therefore trump is a light skinned african american?????

    • @anissodon3714
      @anissodon3714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      😭🤣🤣🤣

  • @dimitri_tsm
    @dimitri_tsm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3730

    "Maybe red-yellow.... Rellow?..."
    My brain: *YED*

  • @skylernova489
    @skylernova489 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1906

    "This works best when in a pitch black room"
    Me watching this at 3am:
    "It's like I was made for this"

    • @kristinewidere1008
      @kristinewidere1008 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @Eissari4 I want that on a shirt, preferably a comfy t-shirt to wear whilst watching youtube, at 4am.

    • @milksoda655
      @milksoda655 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too!!

    • @grn1
      @grn1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

    • @PixelPumpkin
      @PixelPumpkin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My moment has come!

    • @Doctor_Straing_Strange
      @Doctor_Straing_Strange 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

  • @talibjordan9605
    @talibjordan9605 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    The aging wheels cameo caught me extremely off guard but I love both of your channels!

    • @nomusicrc
      @nomusicrc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What's his other channel

    • @unclvinny
      @unclvinny 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@nomusicrcAging Wheels

  • @Erik-p8h2f
    @Erik-p8h2f 5 ปีที่แล้ว +857

    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.

    • @Snickarz1337
      @Snickarz1337 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      imagine that would happen.

    • @jmalmsten
      @jmalmsten 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      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.

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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?

    • @RD-BRAUNSIN
      @RD-BRAUNSIN 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well it's a blue one of course.

  • @Limbolots0
    @Limbolots0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11667

    Some people: wait brown is just darker Orange?
    Artist's : *always has been*

    • @timelordwarrior4394
      @timelordwarrior4394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      Omg 😂😂 I relized this just now

    • @Vsuvi
      @Vsuvi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +561

      Wait normal ppl dont know dis?

    • @mosspetal7835
      @mosspetal7835 4 ปีที่แล้ว +350

      you mean non-digital artists don’t know this already????

    • @timelordwarrior4394
      @timelordwarrior4394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +519

      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.

    • @gamistry2947
      @gamistry2947 4 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      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)

  • @ezekielwilliams9857
    @ezekielwilliams9857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2789

    Joke: calling brown "dark orange"
    Bespoke: calling orange "bright brown"

    • @Lanausse
      @Lanausse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Wait this isn’t SiIvagunner

    • @czyh
      @czyh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      who tf came up with your name, boy be sufferin

    • @ow_su
      @ow_su 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@czyh 💀I forgor

    • @pretendtheresaname9213
      @pretendtheresaname9213 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bright brown doesn't look like orange though, it's just beige.

    • @spookbag24
      @spookbag24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Thukuna.my_thpecial rember*

  • @BubblesCuckoo
    @BubblesCuckoo ปีที่แล้ว +14

    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.

    • @alicemonsell1352
      @alicemonsell1352 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thats true, sometimes when you dilute a black, you get dark magenta tones, or blue tones. Try real black from wood burning stove soot! Really good pigment.

  • @fear416
    @fear416 5 ปีที่แล้ว +915

    Can't wait to see my doctors face when i tell her my stool is dark orange.

    • @matt47110815
      @matt47110815 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      LMAO

    • @lukmly013
      @lukmly013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      _Good idea!_

    • @marlboro1771
      @marlboro1771 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      My diagnosis is, you have bowel cancer

    • @patdthomas
      @patdthomas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      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.

    • @gabejuhasz3743
      @gabejuhasz3743 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Do you have a wooden stool?

  • @florianbertram9451
    @florianbertram9451 4 ปีที่แล้ว +417

    Me, 22 minutes ago: "How can you talk about brown for 21 minutes?"
    Me, now: Hmmm, yes...fascinating

  • @JuliusCaminus
    @JuliusCaminus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3575

    "Brown doesn't exist. But it kind of does."
    * vsauce music plays

    • @makishizi
      @makishizi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      “Brown is a color, or is it?”

    • @UnclePengy
      @UnclePengy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Michael suddenly pops up

    • @hkayakh
      @hkayakh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It kind of. Or does it?

    • @camilleremiano8463
      @camilleremiano8463 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@UnclePengy "Hey VSauce,Michael here.Look at your pants,they are Brown,right?"

    • @Hidration1
      @Hidration1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *Vsauce Theme Plays*

  • @codedinfortran
    @codedinfortran 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Excellent presentation! In the early 80s I worked for a computer slidemaking software company, managing the hotline that supported their users, who were largely graphic artists having their very first experience with any kind of computer. (For historical context the high end computer at the time was a $5000 IBM PCAT with a 286 processor) And having, also their very first experience with additive as opposed to subtractive color.
    Thus, I had many occasions to give some version of your excellent presentation.
    Over the phone. With no visual aids.
    Hard topic. Good job!

  • @nocurvegaming2092
    @nocurvegaming2092 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1900

    “Are you in your dark place?” Me through tears, Always

    • @idkidk9522
      @idkidk9522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Did you not get the epic victory Royale

    • @mightyakkylex
      @mightyakkylex 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Are you OK bud? You can always reach out if u need someone to talk to

    • @chrisB_OG
      @chrisB_OG 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      haha

    • @imnotvladimirputin
      @imnotvladimirputin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@idkidk9522 Fortnite? more like, Fartnite. hehe... fartnite... he....
      Get it? cause I hate fortnite? huh? no? ok...

    • @idkidk9522
      @idkidk9522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@imnotvladimirputin fortnite is trash

  • @whodis5152
    @whodis5152 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3762

    "I'm black"
    no, you are very dark orange

    • @CrashHeadroom
      @CrashHeadroom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @Duribethin Soooo everyone gon' look like tha tango man tony!?

    • @whodis5152
      @whodis5152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      xDD haha wow i didnt Think i had more than 3 likes

    • @lafleurstudios
      @lafleurstudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      So does that mean Trump is just a really bright skinned "black" man?

    • @FM-er6xy
      @FM-er6xy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      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

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@FM-er6xy how drawing a brotha black racist?

  • @TheMilanMovies
    @TheMilanMovies 5 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    “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!

  • @Johnfrooshlover
    @Johnfrooshlover ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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.

  • @vojacked305
    @vojacked305 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4049

    *looks at my skin:
    Hey look at it. I'm not brown. I'm orange, with context.

    • @-ahvilable-6654
      @-ahvilable-6654 5 ปีที่แล้ว +233

      Orange man bad? 🤔

    • @vojacked305
      @vojacked305 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@-ahvilable-6654 nahh I'm just proud that I'm an orange. No emojis might give a wrong context 😅

    • @Glycheer
      @Glycheer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@vojacked305 orange man bad leader

    • @KSPAtlas
      @KSPAtlas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I am orange lol

    • @dante_rf
      @dante_rf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      Then you could say Trump is light brown

  • @gutzbin
    @gutzbin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1835

    “It’s not actually brown. It’s orange... but darker”
    that just sounds like brown with extra steps

    • @thomasvajhoj
      @thomasvajhoj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Adi Septiana no its brown with extra steps

    • @matthewchandler7845
      @matthewchandler7845 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Rick and Morty Roll...Successful Execution!

    • @stalemurfies2031
      @stalemurfies2031 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Jeez someone’s getting laid in college

    • @olivernicholds
      @olivernicholds 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mazen Fisher bless your soul

    • @rogierdancona8462
      @rogierdancona8462 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh no, just as I read this comment my phone stopped charging in my car.. NOT AGAIN

  • @itzolie
    @itzolie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2013

    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!

    • @JJAB91
      @JJAB91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      Turn the brightness up but keep the saturation!

    • @GogiTavadze
      @GogiTavadze 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      Yep it's me in the school trying to select "not so bright yellow" in Paint with no success

    • @graxmccoar8678
      @graxmccoar8678 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      You want tremendously saturated orange.

    • @jakehero95
      @jakehero95 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Haha idk why but this was really funny 😆

    • @werrkowalski2985
      @werrkowalski2985 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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"

  • @misseli1
    @misseli1 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This channel is reminiscent of educational videos my elementary school teachers would put in class. It's kind of comforting in a way.

  • @typryor2227
    @typryor2227 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2599

    Person: “Brown”
    Me an intellectual: “Dark orange”

    • @cerebrummaximus3762
      @cerebrummaximus3762 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Person: Light Blue
      Me: Sky.
      Person: Light green
      Me: Lime.
      Person: Reddish-Orange
      Me: VERMILLION. FULL. STOP.

    • @doughboywhine
      @doughboywhine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Actually, dark beige.

    • @hace1hora599
      @hace1hora599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yo todo un ctm: naranja oscuro

    • @SayAhh
      @SayAhh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Cleveland Dark Oranges defeated the Cincinnati Bengals yesterday.

    • @surprisetroll5700
      @surprisetroll5700 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha yes a fellow intellectual

  • @silentsong5397
    @silentsong5397 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1034

    And then there’s the digital artists watching this that knew brown was dark orange all along

    • @monochromeink.
      @monochromeink. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      yeah

    • @KaityKat117
      @KaityKat117 4 ปีที่แล้ว +191

      Normies: Wait... it's all orange?
      Artists: Always has been.

    • @Zanyzane
      @Zanyzane 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      yep

    • @kirtil5177
      @kirtil5177 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      yeah, getting brown color is always weird

    • @bennyrockfella
      @bennyrockfella 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Mk. 5 TIL thanks

  • @jamalcolmson
    @jamalcolmson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +843

    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.

    • @nahli8619
      @nahli8619 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Whats the color theory

    • @babyxblue
      @babyxblue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      When i was a kid i didnt even know that there was a color called magenta

    • @specialknees6798
      @specialknees6798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I always saw pink and orange as two sides of the same coin for that reason.

    • @castielffboi
      @castielffboi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Pink is my least favourite colour because it’s just a worse version of red to my brain

    • @LukesPrivateChannelig
      @LukesPrivateChannelig 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      MAGENTA ISNT REAL

  • @muontsy
    @muontsy ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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!

  • @ЛевХорошилов
    @ЛевХорошилов 4 ปีที่แล้ว +420

    Basicaly the whole point of this video:
    -No?
    -Yes
    -Yes?
    -No

  • @XShaneX19
    @XShaneX19 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1340

    "Doctor my poo is orange!"
    "WHAT?"
    "Yes a very dark orange!"

    • @coffeecoffee5914
      @coffeecoffee5914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      you never ate a whole box of cheez its?

    • @jubbetje4278
      @jubbetje4278 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      doctor: "Dim the light in your toilet."

    • @God-Emperor_Elizabeth_the_2nd
      @God-Emperor_Elizabeth_the_2nd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      C O N T E X T U A L O R A N G E

    • @weekndfan
      @weekndfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That pfp, its scares me

    • @RLomoterenge
      @RLomoterenge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      To your profile pic: JUST DO IT ALREADY!!!

  • @korbencabby
    @korbencabby 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1865

    Does this mean my brown hair is actually "Dark Ginger"?

    • @Densoro
      @Densoro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +267

      I wasn't ready for the implications of this comment.

    • @Blanddog
      @Blanddog 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      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."

    • @rickkarrer8370
      @rickkarrer8370 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Pretty much lol. Humans make such a big deal about being different, but we're all just a mix of the same basic stuff.

    • @Gattsu_the_struggler
      @Gattsu_the_struggler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Technically every hair natural colour(apart from white which is the absence of brown pigment) is a shade of brown... So yes?

    • @88marome
      @88marome 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @korbencabby O-M-G!

  • @GregOughton
    @GregOughton ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

  • @dahawk8574
    @dahawk8574 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1768

    "I speak Mandarin."
    "...and if you take away the brightness in my voice, you will hear that I actually am speaking Brown."

    •  5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Well done!

    • @samspencer7765
      @samspencer7765 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Excellent.

    • @kabochaVA
      @kabochaVA 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Good one! xD

    • @brandonchan4537
      @brandonchan4537 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      我讲华文,如果你把我的声音暗掉,你会听到我会讲“褐色”

    • @brandonchan4537
      @brandonchan4537 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      oh yea,in madarin we call brown 褐色

  • @Sluppie
    @Sluppie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1567

    "Brown is just Dark Orange?"
    "Always has been."

    • @hiderikanzaki7313
      @hiderikanzaki7313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      But he didn’t talk about pink is a brighter red

    • @moya_2392
      @moya_2392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Haha funni mem

    • @effyleven
      @effyleven 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.)

    • @SallyStangler
      @SallyStangler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @I C Tried that actually since i work with paint. all i really ended up with was a dark dark brownish gray

    • @gusty7153
      @gusty7153 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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

  • @seenukarthi
    @seenukarthi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +245

    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.

    • @Dev-san
      @Dev-san 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Damn r/imverysmart

    • @songbird7450
      @songbird7450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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.

    • @okovermekeamglight4563
      @okovermekeamglight4563 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Filip white is all (visible) wavelengths equally. it is not bright anything.

    • @SimonSalmon
      @SimonSalmon 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@okovermekeamglight4563 Well it is light everything...

    • @JC19021
      @JC19021 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dev that’s not really in the spirit of that sub at all

  • @angelaarmstrong4941
    @angelaarmstrong4941 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    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 ❤️

    • @S7i7mon
      @S7i7mon ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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.

    • @warrenaubry8415
      @warrenaubry8415 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      RGB is light ​@@S7i7mon

    • @eintyp
      @eintyp 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      interestingly, if you mix ideal complementary colors, you _should_ get grey, not brown, but pigments in the real world are rarely perfect colors.

    • @aidenaune7008
      @aidenaune7008 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @pinkroses135
      @pinkroses135 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I tend to get a grayish color but I do like to play with softer colors

  • @SilverCraft15987
    @SilverCraft15987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3534

    "brown doesn't exist"
    Me: looks at my skin, looks at the screen, looks back at my skin.
    _i am orange_

    • @vickiesanders7519
      @vickiesanders7519 4 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      so, basically you could call "brown" "midnight-Orange", "Forest Orange", "Dark Orange", or "Wood Orange".

    • @MegaMewHyperLucario
      @MegaMewHyperLucario 4 ปีที่แล้ว +248

      Are you maybe related to Mr. Trump? :D

    • @Heezbungus
      @Heezbungus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@MegaMewHyperLucario 👁️👄👁️

    • @nazrarain1452
      @nazrarain1452 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      We are all shades of orange...

    • @BaNaiNai105
      @BaNaiNai105 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Eh, I just call it black

  • @mattyjpg
    @mattyjpg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +707

    “It’s just orange with context” sounds like a punchline to a joke that I don’t know the set up to

    • @carlosprieto2231
      @carlosprieto2231 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jesus Phish I know of at least one; it’s here in the comments section

    • @scottbreon9448
      @scottbreon9448 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Trump is Orange without context

    • @JohnnyThousand605
      @JohnnyThousand605 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      “It’s just orange with context” sounds like a bullshit zen koan =D

    • @Myrtone
      @Myrtone 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

    • @scottbreon9448
      @scottbreon9448 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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

  • @garydemonic
    @garydemonic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2268

    so, basically you could call "brown" "midnight-Orange", "Forest Orange", "Dark Orange", or "Wood Orange".

    • @dragonfeets2032
      @dragonfeets2032 4 ปีที่แล้ว +186

      Wood is brown, brown isn't real, wood isn't real. This is proof we're all in a simulation.

    • @jupiterkaos
      @jupiterkaos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I will adhere to wood orange

    • @Darkawk
      @Darkawk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Navy orange

    • @j.qesperas1450
      @j.qesperas1450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Poop Orange

    • @sunrisespartan1765
      @sunrisespartan1765 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      i like midnight-orange

  • @rosielisamoreno
    @rosielisamoreno ปีที่แล้ว +13

    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

  • @Dara-ho9qc
    @Dara-ho9qc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +606

    “Human skins are different shades of orange” - Neil Harbisson, who can hear color

    • @vayasaberlo8
      @vayasaberlo8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      LIke Trump?

    • @johnuferbach9166
      @johnuferbach9166 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      he can't actually hear color tho, his brain just mixes stuff up^^

    • @jessicat3762
      @jessicat3762 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@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.

    • @johnuferbach9166
      @johnuferbach9166 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@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

    • @l1wolf14av
      @l1wolf14av 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@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.

  • @kaleiah2800
    @kaleiah2800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2612

    my online friends : “what skin color do you have?”
    me : “dark orange.”

  • @TempestKrimps
    @TempestKrimps 4 ปีที่แล้ว +723

    "we named this color until we realized its not actually a color but now we can't unname it and it's weird"

    • @justinbrown8214
      @justinbrown8214 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      We named the color that we perceive

    • @midnighttpb
      @midnighttpb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Dark orange

    • @carmadme
      @carmadme 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Midnight / TPB but orange used to be called red

    • @sodiboo
      @sodiboo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We can fix that by naming all dark colors

    • @liamsemicolon
      @liamsemicolon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@MitsyWuzHere in spanish that's also the case: darker blues are just "azul" and lighter blues (almost heading toward cyan sometimes) are "celeste".

  • @donk918
    @donk918 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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.

  • @zacknetic1463
    @zacknetic1463 4 ปีที่แล้ว +354

    "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.

    • @puncheex2
      @puncheex2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

  • @johnchesterfield9726
    @johnchesterfield9726 4 ปีที่แล้ว +530

    “Yes, this sure is dark. Not a lot to see here that’s for sure.” 8:00
    My ugly ass reflection staring at me: 👁👄👁

    • @TemphinFD
      @TemphinFD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You best be watching that bit in the dark buddy!

    • @Rickrollmachine23
      @Rickrollmachine23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I agree, _I can see your reflection right now_

    • @chokedonthedust
      @chokedonthedust 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      After I read your comment the reflection in it looked like: 😄

    • @wyntryx7977
      @wyntryx7977 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      mood

    • @gibbous_silver
      @gibbous_silver 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      *My phone showing a grey screen*

  • @BThings
    @BThings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +452

    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.

    • @chrishale5213
      @chrishale5213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      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
      @ArtForSwans 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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.

    • @BThings
      @BThings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@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.

    • @sas3dx
      @sas3dx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Think about leather

    • @blackoceancreativeuniverse
      @blackoceancreativeuniverse 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sas3dx like this? th-cam.com/video/E_HMIN0nGl0/w-d-xo.html

  • @NathanRyan-v6s
    @NathanRyan-v6s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I wondered why old brown glass bottles were called "Amber!" Amazing!!

  • @mohlomiraswoko4169
    @mohlomiraswoko4169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2113

    “Brown doesn’t really exist”
    Me a with brown skin: “Mr. Stark I don’t feel so good” *fades away*

    • @laurenpinschannels
      @laurenpinschannels 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      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

    • @penisman3315
      @penisman3315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Brown is just orange with context
      You wouldn't fade away you would change pigment

    • @smartaIec
      @smartaIec 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would like but it's at 69

    • @PepASad
      @PepASad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Alec Ryan G-Get it? Because 69?

    • @ttmfndng201
      @ttmfndng201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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

  • @jokey8461
    @jokey8461 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1218

    Day 167 in quarantine : I now know everything about the "color" brown

    • @dubbled5287
      @dubbled5287 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      *colour.

    • @jokey8461
      @jokey8461 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@dubbled5287 this is America

    • @korbinadkins2610
      @korbinadkins2610 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jokey8461°○°

    • @BenjamintYT
      @BenjamintYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@dubbled5287 Actually, both ways of writing "color" are correct. It depends on the country.
      British:Colour
      America:Color

    • @wolfboi7104
      @wolfboi7104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Colors are odd

  • @micke_mango
    @micke_mango หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I lacked info about other ways to create brown using subtractive colouring, i. e. mixing colour pigments.
    Red+green is one way, but it seems like all pairs of complementary colours will yield brown.
    Yellow + purple, blue + orange etc.
    This is even more fascinating to me than what's mentioned in this video, which I liked a lot

  • @de7io407
    @de7io407 4 ปีที่แล้ว +669

    0:32
    This guys examples for brown were: Wood, Wood, Beans, Beans.

    • @realerdealers1924
      @realerdealers1924 4 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Did you want him to say niggas?

    • @baszotek5819
      @baszotek5819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@realerdealers1924 ha ha, funny. ---__---

    • @smapa1185
      @smapa1185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Coffee beans aren't actually beans, they're seeds. Also almonds and I think hazelnuts were shown.

    • @rndmbs
      @rndmbs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@smapa1185 beans

    • @smapa1185
      @smapa1185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@rndmbs Nuts and beans are different... beans are legumes, nuts can be legumes (like peanuts) but are not necessarily legumes.

  • @Jake1702
    @Jake1702 4 ปีที่แล้ว +813

    This is one of those things that once you find out, it seems obvious.

    • @visualaudio22
      @visualaudio22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ikr

    • @mittron2556
      @mittron2556 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It is obvious if you tried to get brown in any graphics program

    • @ireadysucks3026
      @ireadysucks3026 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mittron2556 yeah, I didn’t even use graphic software when I found out about this (I used geometry dash)

    • @victorsitkevicz8312
      @victorsitkevicz8312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @Laeiryn
      @Laeiryn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      spend five seconds trying to design a Waja and you'll get there

  • @fensoxx
    @fensoxx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    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.

  • @cuttinsomehoney
    @cuttinsomehoney 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Potentially a video on:
    How do lights pointed at each other affect each other? While also how do we perceive such and how does the angle of perception play into the mix of wave lengths being observed?
    Definitely don’t have to make a video on such. The visuals within this video were great and helped carve out some new areas of my mind. Very grateful for this one, and thank you for explaining things well while keeping the video’s flow rather organic.
    Going to try to use the knowledge received in this video with some work I do as an artist. So I’ll try some experimenting out on my end as I can. Appreciated 🙏

  • @DeviantOllam
    @DeviantOllam 5 ปีที่แล้ว +308

    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)

    • @hipu
      @hipu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      fancy seeing you here

    • @cmwh1te
      @cmwh1te 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Two of my favorite thing explainers in one place! Collab idea: Offensive Technology Connections

    • @therealergo
      @therealergo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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.

    • @josuelservin2409
      @josuelservin2409 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

    • @UCkU0SrpEeCdPX-2cBVndj7g
      @UCkU0SrpEeCdPX-2cBVndj7g 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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!

  • @GhostSickness
    @GhostSickness 5 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    Damn, I really just watched a 20 minute video about a color.
    And it was fantastic.

    • @zsin128
      @zsin128 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sure it is

    • @TehVulpez
      @TehVulpez 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *about a not color

    • @laurinneff4304
      @laurinneff4304 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Didn't even notice until now

    • @SidecarBob
      @SidecarBob 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @SidecarBob
      @SidecarBob 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @thatrecord5313
    @thatrecord5313 5 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    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...

  • @Zackfish12345
    @Zackfish12345 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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!

  • @raapija
    @raapija 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1448

    "Does brown exist?"
    "Yesn't."

    • @Gucek001
      @Gucek001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      so much underappreciated comment. :D

    • @santiagorain6918
      @santiagorain6918 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Well yes but, actually no.

    • @camelopardalis84
      @camelopardalis84 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Jein.

    • @DarwinskiYT
      @DarwinskiYT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/Vh4Ta2DH1pM/w-d-xo.html

    • @klausstock8020
      @klausstock8020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Brown is orange where the sun doesn't shine.

  • @michaelbrown2294
    @michaelbrown2294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +324

    Wow I've never appreciated my last name so much. Thank you sir!

    • @ryanbrown5499
      @ryanbrown5499 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Well said brother

    • @jeremiahevans4175
      @jeremiahevans4175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Now there are 2 of them, this is getting out of hand!

    • @kacperkukulski152
      @kacperkukulski152 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ryan DarkOrange

    • @screenoholic
      @screenoholic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jeremiahevans4175 Thanks for the laugh!

    • @SHAD0WKNITE
      @SHAD0WKNITE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your last name doesn't really exist

  • @KurosakiYukigo
    @KurosakiYukigo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1606

    The chinese caught me off guard, but then again, nothing surprises me about Alec anymore.

    • @jendorei
      @jendorei 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I believe he has mentioned that before in a video. Can’t say which though.

    • @muchozolf
      @muchozolf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      And there I was, thinking I was special, just cause I learned Russian in high school

    • @usaverageguy
      @usaverageguy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I learned pig Latin.

    • @awo1fman
      @awo1fman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@usaverageguy You mean, "Igpay Atinlay"? 😝

    • @andregon4366
      @andregon4366 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      One of his days Alec will make a video just to reveal in the end that his dick was on fire the whole time.

  • @phillwainewright4221
    @phillwainewright4221 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Orange wasn't a colour until we stole the word from the fruit" ... true.
    Red deer, red squirrels, red hair ... they're all orange.

  • @CristinaAlmarazLopez
    @CristinaAlmarazLopez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +795

    8:13 I can’t believe I actually went and locked myself in my dark bathroom because a TH-cam video told me to.

    • @tahsinkabirnoor2967
      @tahsinkabirnoor2967 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same

    • @BlenderVision
      @BlenderVision 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same xD

    • @ther0ach28
      @ther0ach28 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah me too

    • @dheerusamudrala
      @dheerusamudrala 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Same! It actually works even with lights on 🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @xiphumbra
      @xiphumbra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I can't believe I just watched a 21 minute video on the color brown.

  • @dumdum93
    @dumdum93 5 ปีที่แล้ว +339

    "Are you in your dark place?"
    Too real man

    • @reckarthack3018
      @reckarthack3018 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Alec it's 1am, of course I am

    • @1ucasvb
      @1ucasvb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's my secret. I'm always in my dark place.

    • @pujeetjha8265
      @pujeetjha8265 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Too soon

    • @lukmly013
      @lukmly013 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      We don't have windows at toilet so yes

  • @lolsflint7598
    @lolsflint7598 4 ปีที่แล้ว +512

    This video: "Brown is just dark orange"
    Autoplay next video: "There's no such thing as orange" - Exurb1a

  • @voxsdungeon
    @voxsdungeon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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!

  • @CSDragon
    @CSDragon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +650

    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

    • @1er1s
      @1er1s 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      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

    • @KopieOG
      @KopieOG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@1er1s light blue is cyan man... its means the same thing

    • @1er1s
      @1er1s 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KopieOG Omg yay

    • @ellenjones1569
      @ellenjones1569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@KopieOG actully cyan and light blue are very diffrent

    • @KopieOG
      @KopieOG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ellenjones1569 man.... cyan is fucking light blue color its litterally another name for it

  • @Somethin5041
    @Somethin5041 4 ปีที่แล้ว +651

    "Brown is a weird color."
    The 1970s: And I took that personally.

    • @alexandria_aesthetic
      @alexandria_aesthetic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      huh? (Like my comment when you respond so I can get a nofitaction)

    • @alexandria_aesthetic
      @alexandria_aesthetic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @HenriK Hald oh ok , thanks👑

    • @Useless_Rift
      @Useless_Rift 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@alexandria_aesthetic also, people back then was racist

    • @sexfuk2119
      @sexfuk2119 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Useless_Rift an they still are 😔

    • @bigbag6709
      @bigbag6709 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@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.

  • @SharpieVlog
    @SharpieVlog 4 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    10% interest because I’m an artist
    90% interest because Brown is my last name

    • @andrewgwilliam4831
      @andrewgwilliam4831 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You only think that Brown is your last name.

    • @rainbow_vader
      @rainbow_vader 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nah your last name is Orange, brown doesn't exist.

    • @hab407
      @hab407 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      100% why I’m here....cousin

    • @AbadyonYT
      @AbadyonYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Look at your last name on a dark background and you'll be surprised

    • @midnighttpb
      @midnighttpb 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Holy shit same I’m an artist and my last name is fkn brown

  • @paddor
    @paddor 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yo you turned the forest black with this video. This got me nervous for a moment. But this video blew my mind. Thx man

  • @SkepticalCaveman
    @SkepticalCaveman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1167

    The word "orange" is much newer than "brown", so it would make more sense to call orange "light brown".

    • @jamesowen6100
      @jamesowen6100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Technically wouldn't bit be bright brown rather than light brown?

    • @ahwhite2022
      @ahwhite2022 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      @@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."

    • @InaZeaAnaZazi
      @InaZeaAnaZazi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@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

    • @jamesowen6100
      @jamesowen6100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @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

    • @jamesowen6100
      @jamesowen6100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Sepanta Jan Thats odd. I thought you were replying to me because I got a notification from TH-cam

  • @AlexandruCarjan
    @AlexandruCarjan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +442

    Teacher: What color is a bear?
    Random kid: Dark orange

    • @majorjohnson8001
      @majorjohnson8001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Me, being a smartass: "Black, sometimes white."

    • @steinarlaumann3840
      @steinarlaumann3840 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Panda anyone?

    • @five-toedslothbear4051
      @five-toedslothbear4051 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      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.

    • @majorjohnson8001
      @majorjohnson8001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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?

    • @Xygif
      @Xygif 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

  • @madinator3000
    @madinator3000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +886

    so that means that every kid who colored people orange was technically right

    • @Daniel-qn3wr
      @Daniel-qn3wr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      yeah man i never had those sweet sweet s k i n pencils

    • @subparlario4916
      @subparlario4916 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @@Daniel-qn3wr the crayola color "peach" was originally known as "flesh", but it was changed for... obvious reasons
      so you're not wrong

    • @theman13532
      @theman13532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cameron T what the hell

    • @pierceyu4546
      @pierceyu4546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@subparlario4916 yeah, i could remember borrowing peach from my classmates lmao. Although my parents refer to it as flesh lol

    • @michaelhoffman9573
      @michaelhoffman9573 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@subparlario4916 is this actually true

  • @AlbaMinor
    @AlbaMinor ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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

  • @kailikespenguins
    @kailikespenguins 4 ปีที่แล้ว +531

    This video is the definition of: 'Well yes, but actually no.'

  • @typecasto
    @typecasto 5 ปีที่แล้ว +477

    "There are some... Less appealing substances made of brown"
    A certain jacket comes to mind.

    • @njez7563
      @njez7563 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      He meant brown people

    • @kittsami
      @kittsami 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Erick bulyed me

    • @BlissBatch
      @BlissBatch 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Got dayum!

    • @njez7563
      @njez7563 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@nrico6666 doodoo poopie people

    • @notoriusdrifter40
      @notoriusdrifter40 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@njez7563 He meant feces

  • @davecahyo
    @davecahyo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +732

    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
      @fetterkeks2796 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      The idea of calling brown eyes straight up "black" is so freaky to me!

    • @nathanjora7627
      @nathanjora7627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What do you mean « unlike Europeans » ?

    • @fetterkeks2796
      @fetterkeks2796 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@nathanjora7627 Do you have one where you're from? In Germany we only got orange and that's it.

    • @nathanjora7627
      @nathanjora7627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@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

    • @fetterkeks2796
      @fetterkeks2796 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nathanjora7627 interesting, thanks!

  • @ToddDolce
    @ToddDolce ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was really interesting. By the way I really dig the Orange blazer you are wearing in this video.

  • @CorbiniteVids
    @CorbiniteVids 5 ปีที่แล้ว +509

    "brown, it's everywhere: the bark of a majestic tree" *shows a redwood*

    • @ripthischannel5947
      @ripthischannel5947 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      of all the trees lol

    • @jeffc5974
      @jeffc5974 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Looked brown to me.

    • @CorbiniteVids
      @CorbiniteVids 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jeffc5974 I see more of a maroon, but it's desaturated enough that it almost looks brown

    • @Llorx
      @Llorx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CorbiniteVids You know how is called brown in spanish? "marrón". Kinda curious.

    • @Llorx
      @Llorx 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Boethius ha, is pretty interesting actually.

  • @choog2752
    @choog2752 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1337

    So you’re telling me that brown is a social construct.

    • @pagatryx5451
      @pagatryx5451 4 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      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.

    • @choog2752
      @choog2752 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Pagatryx 😳

    • @elvintiranbalan5882
      @elvintiranbalan5882 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@pagatryx5451 thank you for this. i guess you just summed out the whole video

    • @MaddesG1
      @MaddesG1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If brown is a social construct than the universe is a physical manifestation for all our random thoughts

    • @Robo-xk4jm
      @Robo-xk4jm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@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.

  • @SirLancelotTheBrave
    @SirLancelotTheBrave 5 ปีที่แล้ว +718

    “We can’t take away light”
    *unscrews and steals lightbulb*
    I bet you feel so stupid right now

    • @TheGuardDuck
      @TheGuardDuck 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Blank stare...
      😶

    • @dosnotmatter
      @dosnotmatter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So you are brown after all

    • @RF-Ataraxia
      @RF-Ataraxia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      STOP. YOU VIOLATED THE LAW.

    • @wrentheelf2656
      @wrentheelf2656 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@RF-Ataraxia PAY THE COURT A FINE OR SERVE YOUR SENTENCE.

    • @duuqnd
      @duuqnd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wrentheelf2656 YOUR STOLEN GOODS ARE *NOW* FOREFIT.

  • @jlsgarage872
    @jlsgarage872 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Reaching the point in life where I watch a documentary on brown. Wow.

  • @freedomjunkie7843
    @freedomjunkie7843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1241

    "Brown is just orange, but darker..." - what does this mean for Trump when he dims the lights?

    • @taliesinriver
      @taliesinriver 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      😆

    • @chinmeysway
      @chinmeysway 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      Nighttime self-xenophobia?

    • @jimlarsen6782
      @jimlarsen6782 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      So, perhaps not a scandanavian then!

    • @steave1425
      @steave1425 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      But he would have to make the lights around him brighter so that the orange appears darke in relation. :)

    • @averagejoe1468
      @averagejoe1468 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      "NO NO! Shut those lights off!" Now we know why

  • @introvertairways
    @introvertairways 4 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    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.

    • @randallmokjialung3592
      @randallmokjialung3592 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Why are you in a cl-
      *sees name*
      Ah. I see

    • @introvertairways
      @introvertairways 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@randallmokjialung3592 the joke was there was an illusion that works best in the dark in this video

    • @pinkroses135
      @pinkroses135 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      emo time

  • @ianhudson1438
    @ianhudson1438 5 ปีที่แล้ว +245

    Me: k time to go to sleep
    Recommendations: b r o w n

    • @Meh
      @Meh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ian Hudson YOU JUST READED MY MIND

    • @averageteaenjoyer752
      @averageteaenjoyer752 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sleep is for the weak. I need b r o w n .

  • @samwallaceart288
    @samwallaceart288 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "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.

  • @chowmein0941
    @chowmein0941 3 ปีที่แล้ว +928

    "this video will be exploring the color brown. Viewer discretion is advised."
    Child: (looks at dirt)
    Mom: (Covers child's eyes) "Oh no sweetie! Not until you're older!"

    • @sirhaydn-1
      @sirhaydn-1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Sounds like something from asdfmovie lol

    • @xabeirr
      @xabeirr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      bassujn

    • @Krakyy
      @Krakyy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Child: (looks at black perso

    • @xabeirr
      @xabeirr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Krakyy what???

    • @untitledname4102
      @untitledname4102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Krakyy guess I can’t be around children

  • @CrimsonQuandary
    @CrimsonQuandary 5 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    "Taste the brown" is an underrated line. It got me good.

    • @off_mah_lawn2074
      @off_mah_lawn2074 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      CrimsonQuandary Made me stop the video and go to the comment section to look for fans

  • @kennythawsh
    @kennythawsh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    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

    • @petroll.02
      @petroll.02 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No offense, but why brown for your rgb keyboard

    • @vhroom3436
      @vhroom3436 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      skeylinktenking brown works well with pretty much every color

    • @uzairgangat
      @uzairgangat 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      why brown?

  • @a9ball1
    @a9ball1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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!

  • @albertbatfinder5240
    @albertbatfinder5240 5 ปีที่แล้ว +345

    The Chinese “coffee colour” quip alone was enough to earn you the schoolboy nickname “Smart Alec”.

    • @joeespin4377
      @joeespin4377 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i wonder if mister baldwin or mister guinness dislike being called a Smart Alec?:)

    • @primekrunkergamer188
      @primekrunkergamer188 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      isnt it spelled color. Which country are you from because they have different spelling.

    • @skyletoft
      @skyletoft 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@primekrunkergamer188 Literally every other country in the anglosphere spells it that way

    • @michaelwarner5277
      @michaelwarner5277 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@primekrunkergamer188 it's spelled "colour" in countries that have adopted British English and not American English.

    • @burke615
      @burke615 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

  • @aitanacruz9882
    @aitanacruz9882 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1211

    Nobody:
    Me at 3AM: Ah yes brown sure is a strange wonder.

    • @comdymaster2163
      @comdymaster2163 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Indeed brown is a wonder

    • @feedmepaperr
      @feedmepaperr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nah man it's like 5

    • @hunterbowman4207
      @hunterbowman4207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      same its 3:02 rn lol

    • @lucyo.6039
      @lucyo.6039 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's 4:35 AM here.

    • @RAEVLOS
      @RAEVLOS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      1.50am here, im getting there

  • @joshuawilliams4741
    @joshuawilliams4741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2248

    “Brown is really a dark orange.”
    Me: “America had two orange presidents.”

    • @angieb5720
      @angieb5720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Hilarious 😂

    • @minteasip
      @minteasip 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Ah, my favorite American president:
      Trump's hair!

    • @danielawesome36
      @danielawesome36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      One has a last name nobody knows.

    • @minteasip
      @minteasip 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      @@danielawesome36 Obama bin Laden?

    • @mattmatthews5414
      @mattmatthews5414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      When I have a genuine laugh, it sounds like if woody woodpecker were a baritone. I made that sound at this.

  • @Alex-vr8gw
    @Alex-vr8gw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The final aging wheels appearance of "BROWN" is perfect cinema.

  • @shadowfoxxie7182
    @shadowfoxxie7182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +476

    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.

  • @prizmik
    @prizmik 5 ปีที่แล้ว +384

    "oh look a very dim orange bear"

    • @jdtreharne
      @jdtreharne 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      A brown bear is just an orange bear in context

    • @AaronzDad
      @AaronzDad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      He's not dim! He's smarter than your average bear!

    • @TheSentientCloud
      @TheSentientCloud 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      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"

    • @camelopardalis84
      @camelopardalis84 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Saulius Adomaitis Winnie the Pooh is a dim (stupid) orange (literally) bear.

  • @computer1up
    @computer1up 2 ปีที่แล้ว +604

    "This isn't brown, this is orange with context" reminds me of "Lootboxes aren't gambling, they're surprise mechanics"

    • @Richard_AKL
      @Richard_AKL ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Would you say, "Loot is dynamic?"

    • @urmyt00b
      @urmyt00b ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@Richard_AKLI wouldn't know if loot is dynamic but I do know that you can gamble with brown.

    • @mightydorchux
      @mightydorchux ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or, "It's not flying, it's falling with style"

  • @silverlorian6258
    @silverlorian6258 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I‘m so glad that I found this!
    Nobody can understand that my favorite color is brown, has been for a long time. And now I have a video dedicated to it, with great special effect (the orange in black becomes brown in white). Thanks a lot! (Yes, I know, was made a long time ago, but i stumbled upon it only now.)