Repainting had to be done on this house. The shade of blue had been a subtle one, knowledgeably chosen by an architect.
We had to make a decision at a distance (we weren’t in the house at the time), we had to choose from a few colors emailed to us, we chose the nearest we could, it wasn’t very near.
Instead of being subtle, it was shrill.
It verges toward cyan, and is glossy and therefore more saturated.
I found that I liked it. In fact, I get a jolt of pleasure from it every time I come in sight of it.
The shrill can be more pleasing than the subtle. Or so I think. What do you think?
It could be a function of my eyes. They now make blues lighter and reds darker. That doesn’t bother me when I look at the world, or try to paint it. It only bothers me when I have to read white rexr on blue, or black text on red.
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keep it will fade with time
Don’t change anything it looks awesome.. love the color.
It seems distinctive and cheerful! If you like it that’s the most important thing.
Attempts to quantify color always fall short. It’s not just wavelengths and fluxes, and it’s not even just photochemical reactions in the retina. The brain and mind perceive color through very high-level processing. Even shrill colors have their subtleties.
Guy,
FYI, in using the jpg file you posted, Adobe Photoshop reads the sun reflected portion of the door panel as
RGB of 21 165 228
or
CMYK of 72 19 0 0
Such specification might prove handy in replicating the color at future residences. Or, simply acquire a lifetime supply now and store. The Sherwin Williams paint company had a marketing tagline of “Cover the Earth” with a representative logo.
Good information, I could have thought of taking a reading like that. I’m always dealing with CMYK in choosing colors for plotting, so I can comprehend it more easily; interesting that the paint apparently contains no yellow or black at all.
Such numbers might, as you say, be findable in a paint manufacturer’s definitions of its colors.
Photoshop also gives numbers in other systems whose meanings I don’t know, with components called H, L, D… The manufacturers might use those.
But I remember watching a dealer in a shop mixing a color I had chosen. He was following a formula more like “2 parts of Hokkaido Yellow, 8 parts Jellyfish White…” So the defintions must have been at least one step deeper.
Ifm studying that door in Photoshop, you click on surfaces with slightly different angles to the sunshine, you get different numbers: an up-tilted surface at the top of a panel, CMYK 64 15 7 0.
The very look of the same object in a photo and to the eye seems to me to differ; and the differences are great between what the eye sees under different lighting conditions. At the present moment, out in the sunshine, that railing looks much lighter and less saturated (milkier, you could say) than it does in Photoshop and in the blog post.
And there will be differences between monitors – which also have color configurations that may be mis-set. Not to mention differences between eyes.
Colors are amazingly slippery. When you put sunglasses on, the scene goes darker and browner; a few minutes later, colors seem back almost to normal, even with more contrast; they seem to have expanded to fill the range available; you are seeing as blue what might not really be so in RGB percentages, because it’s contrasting with what is not blue. Colors jump away from each other when set side by side. Yesterday we had to choose from a paper swatch of no fewer than 142 little matte rectangles of color, many of them barely differing from what you would call white or pale gray or blue or cream if you saw them by themselves; alongside, they are distinguishable; each, covering a whole house front, might be quite startlingly strong.
Oh, it’s excellent, imo! Cheerful and sunny – sky color. A bit of tropical splash for the neighborhood. I love the little accents of color on the windowsill and above the door lintel. It would make me happy every time I saw it. It’s making me happy right now. :D
I love it! I would say it is cerulean blue. Is this your ‘new’ home overlooking the Cobb? One thing for sure–the front entrance says “Welcome!”.
Looks like sky blue. Good color for you. I get to play with colors frequently. I do the lights for a local classic rock cover band. It amazes me how many colors can be made from just 3 basic colors.
Looks appropriate and not shrill. I would bet that the previous shade was the result of the previous choice’s weathering. But I think the current colour handsome!