Brown
- 2026-04-22
(In Color perception) 갈색 어두운 노란색이다:
Brown is one of the most mysterious colors. Brown is dark yellow. Whereas people talk about a light green or a dark green, a light blue or a dark blue, they do not talk about dark yellow. When colors in the vicinity of yellow and orange are darkened, they turn to shades of olive green and brown. Unlike red, blue, and green, brown requires that there be a reference white somewhere in the vicinity for it to be perceived. Brown appears qualitatively different from orange or yellow.
There is no such thing as an isolated brown light in a dark room, but when a yellow or yellowish orange is presented with a bright white surround, brown appears. The relevance to visualization is that, if color sets are being devised for the purposes of color coding—for example, a set of blues, a set of reds, a set of greens and a set of yellows—in the case of yellows, brown may not be recognized as a set member.