{"id":57384,"date":"2024-05-02T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lion-test-sites.co.za\/mica-new\/?p=57384"},"modified":"2024-06-04T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T13:11:33","slug":"lets-have-a-word-on-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lion-test-sites.co.za\/mica-new\/lets-have-a-word-on-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of painting your home? Let\u2019s have a word on colour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our eyes can distinguish between about 7 million colours, right down to the smallest variations, but not all of us necessarily see the same colour in exactly the same way as the person standing next to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might see a red as darker or lighter than the other person views that same red, and not only that, but both of you may perceive the same colour even more differently under different light conditions, time of day and so on and even different artificial light sources (such as neon strip lighting, incandescent lamps, LEDs, cool white, or warm) and different perceptions due to the influences of nearby surfaces of a different colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cool colours, warm colours<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Paint manufacturers produce colour swatches to help customers select the right colour\/s for a room, kitchen or whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The colours on the red (warm) side of the colour wheel shown below show the relationships between the primary, secondary, and intermediate\/tertiary colours; the green (cool) side of the wheel has the cooler colours. These colour temperature designations are absolute, meaning that reds etc are warm, blues etc are cool. According to Usability.gov, more subtle colour temperature relationships are relative, meaning that each colour on the warm side of the wheel can be known as cool, and colours on the cool side of the wheel can be known as warm depending on the relationship to their neighbouring colour. Colours from the same hue, for instance red, can also be warmer or cooler than one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colour temperatures affect us both psychologically and perceptually by helping us determine how objects appear to be positioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Captions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Cool colour scale<\/h2>\n\n\n\n