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!

[@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Outdated education i guess?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

[@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

[@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!

[@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]

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[@SWL_Jamey]

@@SanityInAnAmazonBoxShorts your brexit jokes are like stale bread. i mean brioche.

[@TeraChad23]

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

[@TeraChad23]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@ARC-mp6cd]

the amount of effort put in this video is just BEYOND

[@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.

[@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

[@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).

[@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.

[@xcuelho5327]

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

[@thekaradi]

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

[@freedomutilities9240]

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

[@soapyrainmaker5367]

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

[@sizzili1902]

As a colourblind person I have no business watching this

[@hansolowe19]

You can still enjoy 2/3rds of the video.

[@ifthenplay]

stop. this is harmful and just so not true and creates a cult of ignorance for people with full spectrum. color blind is the most inaccurate label ever.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@abundant-goldenrod-breath]

insane production quality and highly informative as usual

[@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

[@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.

[@Zepi2509]

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

[@rossbentley3000]

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

[@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.

[@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 :)

[@Luclecool123]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@DRAGONFIRE894]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@manashkashyap7780]

Please keep this content coming. Love your content

[@HiyuMarten]

God tier video on colour, excellent work

[@blackhole927]

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

[@ifthenplay]

not true. for you possibly, but not for everyone. this statement creates ignorance. stop.

[@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.

[@VincentBounce]

I see a pure cyan dot when the red one disappears, but green like your example at all. Excellent video!

[@biggestmonkefanofalltime9710]

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

[@samadadeleke8325]

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

[@blue_bird7]

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

[@Vazata28]

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

[@Haluku9]

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

[@mjrmls]

Obligatory mention that the subtractive primary colours are cyan yellow magenta, not blue yellow red 🤓

[@tim3line]

Why are you so good at explaining things

[@antoineartillan]

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

[@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.

[@marvnch]

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

[@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

[@exxplore]

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

[@nootnootnootok]

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

[@mateuszkrysiak]

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

[@wandenreich770]

Damn …this so well researched didn’t knew colors had this much info

[@TanjimRahman]

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

[@ryzs_]

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

[@oshomasamson1906]

Smoothest ad transition I've seen in a minute

[@harshavardhan.m1]

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

[@ru31k32]

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

[@aouerfelli]

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

[@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

[@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 :)

[@Spacey_Sam77]

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

[@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!!

[@cutepotato001]

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

[@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 😤😤

[@billcipher1212]

there are some errors and misleading things like at 15:48 for this comparison you need to already have an hdr monitor with hdr enabled and the video would have to have been uploaded in hdr otherwise its not a real comparison of sdr to hdr but a comparison of a washed out sdr and a not washed out sdr. but for a general audience like i think you were going for its probably fine

[@captainMony]

As someone who can see colours, i love the colours!

[@jamestimms5911]

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

[@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 ❤

[@Rainbowdash143]

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

[@ufufu001]

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

[@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.

[@daliareds]

I would recommend as further reading Acerola's video on color theory called "Your colors suck". It covers similar topics, but with a focus on 3D rendering and it goes a little more in depth into all the math stuff

[@rubbish_kat]

justice for the true primary pigment colors; cyan magenta yellow

[@jazzeeblaze]

and dont forget about Key "K" Black

[@rubbish_kat]

@@jazzeeblaze i mean yeah but black is not a primary color, it can't create different hues/colours, it simply changes the shade/light or darkness of it

[@lifthras11r]

@@jazzeeblaze K exists only because of the printing process and physical limit of pigments (you _can_ print black without K, but it will put too much ink). So it can be safely ignored for the introduction.

[@pietrosilvi6671]

Fully agreed. The RYB model concept makes no sense and is definitely not supported by science. Either you go with subtractive primaries (pigments) and that's CYM, or you go with additive primaries (light) which is RGB.

[@nickronca1562]

​​@@pietrosilvi6671Makes no sense and isn't supported by science? Yellow paint + blue paint = green paint. No exceptions. Not white paint like you would expect from additive color mixing mixing two complementary colors. Not black paint like you would expect from subtractive color mixing mixing two complementary colors. *Green* paint. In addition, red paint and blue paint makes purple paint. Not magenta paint like you would expect from additive color mixing. Not black paint like you would expect from subtractive color mixing [Red + Blue = Yellow + Magenta + Cyan + Magenta = Black + Magenta]. Not magenta or black paint, purple paint. Point is, RGB color wheel is used for light, YCM color wheel is used for pigment, and RGB color wheel is used for paint. There is no other way around the fact that yellow and blue aren't complementary colors of paint.

[@kalinkavelinova2529]

The four main colors in playing cards are black(spades,clubs) and red(hearts,diamonds). Some versions have yellow diamonds and turquoise clubs

[@HTEGB]

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

[@orvvro]

Hi, I have a few questions. 1. I still don't really understand what the exact difference is between color space and gamma. Could you explain it in a super easy way? Or maybe in a mathematical way? 2. What is Dolby Vision and in what category can it be placed? Is it also a color space, or is it just an HDR specification or something like that? If so, what are other technologies that can be placed in the same category? 3. I'm a web developer and I sometimes find myself wanting to use mix-blend-mode in CSS. Could you make a video about how this CSS property works? It's really cool and interesting, but I only get it to work after a lot of trial and error because of the many options. Maybe you can explain the science behind each mix-blend-mode in a creative way.

[@Amaraldo]

Gamma is just a misnomer for transfer function. A transfer function maps code values to light levels. Think of how 8-bit RGB values 0,0,0 = no light output and how 255,255,255 = maximum light output. The transfer function relates to the specific encoding and decoding of code values for display. E.g. 'gamma' stems from the exponent of a power function. Displays are typically gamma decoding (e.g. monitors usually decode [0, 1] code values ^2.2) so code values must be encoded with the inverse transfer function of the display to account for that (in this case [0, 1] code values are encoded ^(1/2.2)).

[@0r94n1z3r]

Wow that was literally EVERYTHING about color! Amazing work

[@lachlanlau]

as technology connections said, brown is orange with context.

[@abhisheknavgan6829]

your videos are just so fun to watch

[@gljames24]

Oh, I was going to make a similar video. Shoot. This is really good. I'm doing projects like quaternary color naming, spherical color mapping as opposed to cubic, and making a physical color picker using a monochromator to calibrate displays based on an individual's chromatic vision.

[@jameshuisang]

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%

[@catt9853]

this and CD//Color are the videos that I wish every Art/Multimedia student get to watch

[@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!!🤗🤗

[@davidg9307]

As someone who loves color this video is awesome

[@OmegaFalcon]

The tech behind screen displays was super interesting!

[@aeriethewolf7368]

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

[@Giuseppe_Camole_4073]

This is gonna be one of them videos that has millions of views

[@mguerra79]

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

[@kalisticmodiani2613]

LED displays are the same as LCD display with a LED back-light (instead of the less efficient fluorescent one). Micro-LED and Q-LED are different, micro-LEDs have one LED per pixel or channel of color and are quite rare for consumer displays, Q-LED generates color with a phosphor coating and a LED back-light.

[@iO-Sci]

Color is tranquil and nice type of light and prism. 색은 고요하고 좋은 빛의 종류입니다

[@TalEdds]

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

[@jaaacktractive]

In the beginning, you could have also talked about how naming colors in a culture leads to people identifying them as different. Some cultures can't identify blue/teal/cyan/purple as different colors because they don't have names for them.