Seeing Color as Data, Not Just Perception COCORY JOURNAL 02-5 The fact that skin color can be measured numerically is fascinating. We can look at lightness through L*, examine the degree of redness and yellowness through a* and b*, and use b-a to observe the relationship between these two color components. But in an actual […]
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SERIES 2. THE SCIENCE OF COLOR One expression appears frequently when people talk about skin color: Olive skin. When a complexion appears slightly greenish, or seems somewhat different from what people commonly think of as reddish or yellowish skin, people often describe it as “olive.” If you look up olive skin online, it is not
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SERIES 02. THE SCIENCE OF COLOR We often describe skin in familiar terms. “It looks bright.”“There is some redness.”“It looks more yellow.” These descriptions seem simple until we try to explain how bright, how red, or how different one person’s skin color is from another’s. The same skin can appear slightly different depending on light
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SERIES 02 — THE SCIENCE OF COLORLooking at color not only through perception, but through data. When we look at someone’s skin, we naturally use words such as: “bright,”“reddish,”“yellow-toned,”or “deep.” These descriptions are not necessarily wrong. The human eye is remarkably capable of noticing differences in skin color. But seeing skin color and measuring skin
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