Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs

If you're curious about rainbows, colorimetry, gamma encoding, and experiments run in the late 1920s, then this is the post for you!

Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs This post is also available in Russian: Цвет: от шестнадцатеричных кодов до глаза , and Japanese: 色：ヘキサコードから眼球まで . Why do we perceive background-color: #9B51E0 as this particular purple? This is one of those questions where I thought I’d known the answer for a long time, but as I inspected my understanding, I realized there were pretty significant gaps. Through an exploration of electromagnetic radiation, optical biology, colorimetry, and display hardware, I hope to start filling in some of these gaps. If you want to skip ahead, here's the lay of the land we'll

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