everything about color (literally)

[@juxtopposed]

what display are you watching this video on?

[@acidmastersF1]

oled

[@yoriiroy1720]

lg 27gn950-b baby

[@nichindluv]

real professional web designer display (800x600)

[@AaronAufYouTube]

Idk - pixel 5

[@Isdu]

A pretty bad IPS

[@MEGAMeetsmeh]

As a color nerd, this is probably the best color theory overview video I’ve seen. The only important thing you missed is CMY. Otherwise, I didn’t expect this to be so all encompassing and you did a great job at explaining the more technical concepts. W vid.

[@juxtopposed]

thank youuuu

[@OmegaFalcon]

That seems like a pretty significant thing to leave out imo

[@rafi-leigh]

8:05 since painting and printing is similar, if you look at the top here for ryb you can find cmy. Cmy anyways is not important

[@w花b]

​@@rafi-leigh I have no qualifications and I'm telling you it is. Listen to my authoritative opinion, now. It shouldn't be titled like that if the video isn't talking about everything about colors >:(

[@Wizzardo]

Considering that their channel is related to web design, which is mostly viewed on screens. Maybe that's the reason for not including CMY?

[@albertmends]

20:53 "color psychology needs context either there is a context or a context will be forced on a color" Such a great line!

[@NickLaslett]

So true of colours and compositional relationships, context, context, context.

[@aencaster]

As a printing technician, I only missed the CMY/CMYK/CRYK modes and subtractive models in general, because it really hurts seeing people trying to prove the Johannes Itten's colour wheel is a way to go in this modern day age. Otherwise, it is THE video about colour, period. I will recommend it to new employees, to designers and people associated with my work field, you did a tremendous job 💪 wholeheartedly thank you ❤

[@bronzekoala9141]

Yes otherwise it is... but that's a pretty big BUT. I am so tired of people claiming red blue and yellow are primary colors when it has been proven hundred years ago that they are neither primaries for additive, nor for subtractive color mixing. Everyone knows that printers use cyan, magenta and yellow so why does this not ring a bell??!

[@TWlaz]

*Me nodding at the brilliant colors of the 8k QD-Oled screen on my 2k LCD monitor* Hmmmm yesssss, beautiful!

[@marielcarey4288]

Outdated education i guess? ​@@bronzekoala9141

[@advntrrbndcmp3808]

What also really bothered me was the comparison of RYB and RGB. That is such a common mistake that makes me die inside! They sound similar, but they are not remotely related. CMY and RGB interlock to form a bigger color system - its all about the contrasts of cyan/red magenta/green yellow/blue. RYB is an orange-tinted limited gamut that is basically an imperfect historical attempt at CMY. It should only be used for a deliberate historical/orangey look. Also the colors shown for opponent process theory deeply bothered me. They are neither accurate to perceptually spaced compliments or the actual opponent process colors, but clearly based on the colors of my least favorite pseudoscientific system the Natural Color System. On the upside this is one of the bigger videos on edu youtube that shouts out oklab. So thats a plus. But if you really want a non-frustrating color theory video that includes oklab as a subject, I reccomend Acerola's and Gneiss Name's and Color Nerd's work instead. And if you want a wonderful open access review paper that eviscerates the Heringite misunderstanding of the opponent process, look up "Color Appearance and the end of Hering’s Opponent-Colors Theory".

[@mosesjoe3763]

​@@advntrrbndcmp3808 IKR? People are just so tired of making crappy purples from certain reds and blues from the traditional RYB primaries... Sure those muted shades of purples exist in nature, BUT purples like flowers are far more vibrant purples than the purples RYB produces, the RYB primaries just dosen't do it...

[@segsfault]

>Light is a wave **_Wave/Particle Duality Has Entered The Chat_**

[@EchoesPF878]

Yes but particles are also just a type of wave, light is a wave all the time so its correct. All particles are waves not all waves are particles, no need to mention the particle nature of light cause that is just an extension of its wave properties

[@ElRogallo]

Newtonian scientists: ah shit, here we go again

[@ProjectKHI]

@@EchoesPF878No all particles act like waves, it’s like moving a ball in a certain way to form a donut

[@SnakebitSTI]

"Particle" and "wave" are two ways of describing the same underlying concept. If you have a wave, you can describe it as a particle. If you have a particle, you can describe it as a wave. Though they aren't equally useful descriptions in all contexts, it can be done.

[@EchoesPF878]

@@ProjectKHI Please elaborate

[@bycloudAI]

banger video as usual

[@cdkw2]

Glad we got the same interest cloud AI guy!

[@jumpy2783]

W video L AI channel commentor

[@thebrownfrog]

bycloud is one of the best AI-based youtubers

[@elk45]

Omg. It actually covers everything about colour. In 25 minutes. My uni course only went into the physics section and that took 2 hrs of lectures. Bravo, Jux!

[@EvanH2000]

Casually drops the best video on colour ever created. So much work must have gone into this. I've seen so many different videos doing the same thing, but the visual metaphors and clever ways of visualizing abstract concepts in your motion design is unparalleled. Like the 3D colour space blew me away. This has got to be the best video you've made so far

[@juxtopposed]

thank you! it’s my favorite too :D

[@dbrighthd]

when I was younger I used to get sad that screens were only red green and blue like I wanted to see all colors

[@Celemimphar]

I too desire to be as the humble shrimp

[@dbrighthd]

@@Celemimphar hello celemimphar

[@nyanpasu64]

You should try looking into wide-gamut color. It's common on Macs, phones, and high-end monitors now.

[@ant5389]

@@Celemimphar whilst shrimp have mroe types of cone cells, they suck at differentiating colours, their cone cells do less than ours do

[@Arcad3n]

It’s always so interesting to me that CMY still isn’t commonly known. It took me until one of my college art classes to ever hear about it for the first time, after being taught since kindergarten that the primary colors are Red, Yellow and Blue. For anyone curious, in Additive light (screens, lightbulbs, etc), the primaries are Red, Green, and Blue (dark base colors that get brighter when mixed), and in Subtractive light (painting, colored pencil, etc), the primaries are Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow (bright base colors that get darker when mixed)! If you’ve ever tried to mix paints using red, yellow, and blue, and wondered why all of your secondary colors looked muddy and dark, that’s why! You couldn’t have mixed those nice, brighter colors because they are primary colors!

[@sisisworld]

When teaching kids RYB are the best method cause it is easy. Each color scheme/wheel has it place to be and use. One is not exactly better the other, just has different purpose. About muddy colors it can be correct if you uses the splited primary system.

[@mosesjoe3763]

​@@sisisworld Understandable... However CMY primaries should still be taught to atleast for a more advanced or formal art classes...🎨🖼🖌

[@Abdullah-n6h6w]

This is the best explanation about colors till now, great voice and visuals, well researched and easy to grasp. Thanks a lot for making this video ❤

[@Solanaar]

This is incredibly well made. You managed to take us on a journey through many different disciplines and were able to connect them in a way that makes sense. It must have been challenging to condense these topics. And the visualizations are a big factor for why this is so understandable despite it's complexity. Really, really well done!

[@zsomborbeke7229]

Both this video and the RealTimeColors are truly awwesome. Amazing job, and really thanks for sharing all this, helping a lots of people without charge.

[@xcuelho5327]

This might be the best condensed color material on the internet rn

[@ARC-mp6cd]

the amount of effort put in this video is just BEYOND

[@fuxafak]

I binge watch all the color related video on youtube for days. Yours is surely one of the best. Thank you.

[@joemarriage3002]

I don't think I got the full experience watching this on my €90 monitor

[@captainMony]

Let me brake it down for you: There are a lot of different colours on the screen.

[@SanityInAnAmazonBoxShorts]

GUYS WE JUST MET A BRITISH PERSON €€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€

[@TeraChad23]

​@@SanityInAnAmazonBoxShorts we british folks use £ symbols. The € symbol is european.

[@TeraChad23]

​@@Jamey_ETHZurich_TUe_Rulezlmfao, im gonna save that joke for later

[@samiraperi467]

@@captainMony BREAK it down. I don't see *that* mistake very often, instead people keep replacing their brakes with breaks. :D

[@Wowowzz]

Woah as an artist ur rlly helping me out cuz idk what the heck is a colour and why some pencils or markers are a different colour than i thought

[@prathithchivukula]

It's evident that so much effort went into this video, so congrats! This was probably the best 25 minutes I've spent on KZbin in a long, long while

[@NickLaslett]

Me too, easily rewatch a dozen times.

[@xephyrxero]

An important color spaces you left out is ACES. It's now the standard for high quality film editing. And it covers over 100% of the visible range!

[@marclagier5615]

I think it's more than just a color space but a color encoding system useful to keep accurate colors in a workflow (I've been working with it for less than a year, I'm not a pro yet)

[@theyoloer38]

@@marclagier5615 nope you nailed it!! ACES does stand for Academy Color Encoding System, but the gamut is the part that is probably the easiest to explain and comes up most often lol

[@roxtaramir]

Tbh I was watching your UI redesign videos and came upon this and have no real use for learning about colors but at this point have gotten so used to your voice that I just kept on watching and turns out, it was pretty informative indeed! 😅

[@simonabunker]

This is a great introduction to colour theory and colour science! For movies there is an extra colour space the Accademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the place that hands out Oscars) created a set called ACES. This is a really wide gamma space that actually extends beyond the colour locus into colours that cannot be recreated (but help doing some maths).

[@emmamaria8979]

Normally when you see a video with this type of title, ("Everything about X explained QUICKLY and SIMPLY"), it doesn't come even a fraction as close as this video did. Really lived up to the name. Fantastic 😤😤

[@lifthras11r]

9:55 This process is actually called the *opto-electronic transfer function* (OETF) or simply a transfer function, which includes but aren't limited to the gamma correction. In fact sRGB transfer function is subtly different from a pure gamma correction, though it shouldn't matter much for 8-bit color depth. Also many HDR standards also come with custom transfer functions because pure gamma correction won't be a good fit for the actual human perception of brightness---like, you will need 15 bits instead of 10 bits of color depth for the faithful color reproduction.

[@NickLaslett]

The pain of HDR display technology. I think researching, then buying an LG OLED in 2018, then playing about with calibration and experiencing the first wave of Ultra Blu-Ray releases, really burned me out on HDR. The pick your own correct colour and OETF curve most manufacturers seemed to use did not sit right with me, not even factoring in dynamic tone mapping and Dolby Vision. Very happy in an SDR world for now.

[@soapyrainmaker5367]

Your UI design content is my favorite on this website. You are one of my favorite creators.

[@abundant-goldenrod-breath]

insane production quality and highly informative as usual

[@ManifoldMold]

2:20 brown is literally dark orange, it has a specific wavelength... We percieve brown when the environment is brighter than the orange object.

[@nootnootnootok]

she literally explained everything i have a new understanding of light because of this, my life will never be the same

[@Zepi2509]

There was a lot i already knew, but impressive how concise and informative this video is. I learned so much from it.

[@Luclecool123]

your best video so far, keep it up you are amazing

[@RandomKSandom]

I've spent a lot of time, over many years in this field, and wanted to say that I was really impressed with the video. It was great to see some colour spaces that I didn't know about.

[@emmanuelbaltazarlopez4850]

Design student here, I love how you explained that, without context, color psychology doesnt work, a lot of people think the opposite way and that's a big problem because you really need to understand context to build a color scheme that works in your design, making the color phycology into something so basic like orange is food or blue is calm really needs to stop so we can make better designs in general

[@NickLaslett]

Can’t be said enough.

[@alvin_row]

It's amazing you managed to put so much information in such a short video, while also making it extremely easy and fun to watch. Nice work!

[@rossbentley3000]

The amount of info you pack into every few seconds is astonishing, another banger

[@thekaradi]

Really love your way of storytelling and video. Please never stop making these videos. These are really informative

[@SteveCopley]

Well, thats my next Graphics and Colour Theory lesson sorted for my Digital Tech. students! Thank you, as always, for such a great video. And thansk for RealTimeColours... Use it every week with my classes. ❤️

[@juxtopposed]

glad to hear that!

[@SortaBlind]

I've found that all the colour theory in the world doesn't actually make it any easier for me to make a final decision when it comes time to choosing my swatches. The amount of times I've now jumped on realtime colours just to help me feel more confident in my choices is ridiculous. Great video, great links, great, great, great :)

[@Engineergaming44]

as a beginner color enthusiast, this is a wonderful video. To be able to explain all of this in such a clear and concise way that anyone can understand is really impressive. Absolutely amazing video.

[@ericb314]

How can every single video you make be so amazingly good? You're making me want to learn even more about colours!!

[@juxtopposed]

omg 😭 thanks

[@ashutoshsolanki3637]

Damn, I subbed for some UI stuff but this person does some great research. Nice video :)

[@dapcuber7225]

I would love to hear you talk about how different cultures around the world see colours differently due to their language. For instance "When the Lithuanian-Norwegian participants were thinking in Lithuanian, they had an advantage in distinguishing different shades of blue, which was not present when they were thinking in Norwegian." Edit: Also how different culture's colour perception influences things like music, for instance the 17 equal temperament which I remember reading about but I can't seem to find where.

[@dogedoger2606]

It is still quite a debate within linguistics, but most experts these days agree that your language does not greatly affect your perception of reality. It is most likely not the case that they could distinguish more shades of blue because they spoke Lithuanian.

[@SnakebitSTI]

It's a practice/exposure thing really. You don't have to grow up speaking a language that has blue/green distinction to distinguish between blue and green, and you don't need to grow up in a culture that has microtonal music in order to know that there can be more than 8 notes. Like, take a look at a rainbow or other representation of the visible light spectrum. Do you see _exactly_ 7 colors, no more? There's a difference between memorizing 7 labels for parts of the visible spectrum and only being able to see 7 colors in the visible spectrum! Or have you ever heard an instrument out of tune? Tada, you can hear more than 8 notes! Language and culture inform how you interpret the colors you see and sounds you hear, but they don't determine what you can see and hear.

[@NickLaslett]

Ethnic/genetics does affect how your colour cones in the eyes work. People from different groups don’t see colours the same.

[@blue_bird7]

you channel is one of best of youtube in its niche , I just love your channel Juxtopposed

[@manashkashyap7780]

Please keep this content coming. Love your content

[@jameshuisangkim]

Came for a design lesson about colours but left with additional knowledge about science and biology of colours and how eyes work. Value gained 1000%

[@blackhole927]

As a colorblind person I can confirm a banana is in fact blue.

[@Pyrodiac]

​@@ifthenplayr/wooooosh

[@roxyisgod2725]

Your integrated adds are truly genius.

[@freedomutilities9240]

Fun fact, if you see the thumbnail from far it's seen as white, but when you get closer its actually RGB pixels.

[@theunskruger1211]

Thanks Einstein

[@deleted-something]

The eyes (the brain) are so complex, advanced and yet, because of expectations, so easy to trick Also friendly reminder that in CRT screens there’s no “pixels”, they do look like pixels and subpixels, but because of the way that electron guns work over the mesh that looks like pixels, those aren’t pixels

[@SnakebitSTI]

To be specific, each color target is kind of like a little tiny monochrome CRT screen. They do not light uniformly like subpixels on flat screen displays. They glow only where the electron beam hits them. The main takeaway is that large color targets hinder color accuracy more than brightness accuracy.

[@cosmologicalx]

LOVE THSI VIDEO SO MUCH!!! LEARNING COLORS BUT IN A MORE SIMPLIFIED WAY AND IT ACTUALLY MAKE ME UNDERSTAND HOW MONITORS AND CAMERAS WORK!!!!11 awesome job keep it up :D

[@aitroca06]

24:30 I SCREECHED YOU MADE THIS NOOBIE GRAPHIC DESIGNER VERY HAPPY, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

[@aitroca06]

oh and it has a figma plugin 😭 🙏 i love you

[@harshavardhan.m1]

What an amazing video that was Really appreciate your time and dedication to make more Love from India ✌🏻

[@Comettoastar4343]

Well all I have to say about this video is. . . . . You have just earned yourself a subscriber you made a perfect informative video that kept my attention for the whole thing and wasn’t just boring it also had just the right amount of information so I’ll say keep it up you are so amazing and you do so great I wish you the best

[@nuniyoa]

found this super interesting as a colorblind person! because of that i tend to think about color more often than people with normal color vision but i never knew so much went into it :) very fascinating

[@HiyuMarten]

God tier video on colour, excellent work

[@vacatiolibertas]

if it wasn't simplified, it wouldn't be juxtopposed. this channel is brilliant.

[@mateuszkrysiak]

I love your content! It's amazing. Also your websites... ah... perfection! you're the best! Keep doing best!

[@aouerfelli]

Thank you for not using an annoying music. This helps to concentrate and understand better.

[@ryzs_]

Best ever!!! 🎯🤯thanks for the explanation, will definitely rewatch this again 😂

[@painlesskun3959]

This video, is good for everyone on this planet, even blind. And the fact that you made a whole ass website to aid in color choosing NEEDS to get a pat on your back from every viewer.

[@antoineartillan]

This video has instantly become my go-to reference video, will come back whenever I do a gradient 😄

[@biggestmonkefanofalltime9710]

This video is so informative and well done. THANK YOU!

[@DRAGONFIRE894]

Wow this is amazing, so much covered in 25 minutes.

[@samadadeleke8325]

This is a well made video. Thank you for making it and sharing it with us.

[@marvnch]

Great video, approachable and pretty while explaining all these concepts well

[@TanjimRahman]

This was fantastic. Packed with info and so much fun!

[@jamestimms5911]

A very illuminating vidoe Juxt! I've put this in my fav design vids!

[@nicestranger]

Your videos are very informative yet entertaining at the same time! It's hard to do both and it's impressive how you achieve that. Keep up the great work!!🤗🤗

[@aeriethewolf7368]

Honestly, I learned more in this video than I ever did in any art class I attended.

[@TalEdds]

Great in-depth video, loved every minute of it!

[@kalisticmodiani2613]

Subtractive primitives are magenta (a purpleish, pinkish, redish light color), yellow, and cyan (a greenish, blueish light color). Because cyan is what you get when you subtract the pure red from the white light. Also you cannot blend, superpose or juxtapose those three colors to get black so you have to use a fourth primitive which is "black" and whose function is to control/reproduce lightness.

[@mosesjoe3763]

LOL! "Primitives"...😆🤣 I'm sorry I find those typos kinda funny, cause the irony, the CMY are a more modern info... BUT, Yeah! I totally agree with you all the way...👍 That's why CMY are the TRUE subtractive primaries...🎨🖌 If there's anything that's primitive or dated it's the RYB Primaires...

[@kalisticmodiani2613]

@@mosesjoe3763 or if English is not your mother tongue

[@mosesjoe3763]

​@@kalisticmodiani2613 Sorry, what? English my mother's tongue...? I don't unerstand...

[@oshomasamson1906]

Smoothest ad transition I've seen in a minute

[@theyoloer38]

This is a solid basic breakdown of a lot of color & imaging science concepts/history!! I would definitely recommend being a bit more specific about some of the color science topics and history to avoid some common misconceptions(for instance that the XYZ response spectra weren’t based on direct study of cone responsivities but instead on color matching experiments with a handful of observers presented with stimuli, LMS is the color encoding actually based on our cones responses). Great job tho!!

[@Rainbowdash143]

I did not expect this video to be so informative! Love it

[@Haluku9]

This is the most beautiful video I will ever see here😭

[@0r94n1z3r]

Wow that was literally EVERYTHING about color! Amazing work

[@ciello1195]

This is soo cool. I was just watching the nothing phone review, and now I learned alot about colors! Hopefully it transfers to my drawing capacity prayge

[@HTEGB]

This is the best possible explanation of this! This must be shared more!

[@ufufu001]

thank you for this very well researched video. i never imagined color would be such a complex topic!

[@verebellus]

you just condensed my first year of photography school into 25 minutes, and it was so much easier to understand

[@bezrodnyigor]

Great video! Very comprehensive. One thing that's not addressed here is the fact that in between your GPU and whatever display you use is an OS and depending on the setup it can screw up color accuracy in pretty spectacular ways, especially in HDR, especially on Windows.

[@NickLaslett]

Basically the intermediary messes with everything.

[@mikami5799]

It is very difficult to understand and explain BT2020 & BT2100 for laymen, but you nailed it!! Thank you so much for making this video, love it so much ❤

[@mguerra79]

A-MA-ZING!!! Another tool to show my students one day! Thank you!

[@exxplore]

Great job of clearing up the mess of all the confusing different color spaces!

[@kazuha6365]

Dude I just love your videos they are entertaining and informational

[@Budgy_2308]

Good video! However, in min 2:10 it's important to note that cones are responsible for color vision and are not directly involved in perceiving white or black; rods, which weren't mentioned, are crucial for seeing in low light and help us detect brightness and contrast.

[@KingMagenta]

I'm a huge colour nerd if the name wasn't obvious enough, I agree with the other comments about CMY but other than that this is extremely comprehensive. Thank you.

[@SxAde]

I've been playing this video on repeat befor it even existed for around 20 years now. I've always been fascinated by colors, the way they work both mathematically and psychologically, and you just materialized all those thoughts in one single video. In other words, I loved it. ♥

[@nashidrountree2457]

It must be said... the thumbnail for this video is a masterclass!

[@OmegaFalcon]

The tech behind screen displays was super interesting!

[@tim3line]

Why are you so good at explaining things

[@glitchedjson4042]

I chose the blue logo without knowing why, it just felt right. then you mentioned how we link the colors to brands we are familiar with, and my taskbar is filled with blue logos, like steam and discord and eclipse, signal and vscode. it's crazy how I subconsciously chose the blue logo because of that and none of the others. great video!

[@Vazata28]

DAMN! Why is so nice to have simple and quick information absorption without so uga-buga sciencey?😫

[@cutepotato001]

Hey, I like your content ! I just finished my art studies and I have some design background, it's truly fascinating !

[@MiraiSubject]

Awesome video! I would've loved to see this in 10-bit HDR on KZbin, because then you could represent some of the color and luminance values natively, but I also understand that many displays still don't so a simulation will have to suffice. The simulations were pretty cool too! Keep up the great work

[@ru31k32]

Let's gooooooooo, new video. Now I am able to see in full HD... Well, full Spectrum

[@giugiuvero23]

awesome video, i'm just getting into color theory and this is a great start

[@abhisheknavgan6829]

your videos are just so fun to watch

[@likeakaleidoscope]

One of the greatest video about color, thanks :D

[@uwontrememberthis]

omg i like how straight to the chase this video is and how much incredibly well explained info is squeezed in - amazing!

[@as8kay]

Really appreciate the creator and her efforts 🎉🎉🎉