Do we really see the same colors?

[gigi]

@XaMcQ

Grr… I can’t find any information to back it up online, but I read it as one of those short articles in some magazine several years back. I remember it because my husband is a painter and we discussed it. I don’t know if we are seeing the same color when hubby and I both look at a paint chip, but I do know he is able to see all the colors that go into it and I am not. I may see what looks like a light purple, but he can tell you that it’s this red, that blue, a certain amount of white.

But that just seems like practice, not that his brain has developed anything new. I am used to looking at colors like that to decide their value or tone (reddish or bluish for purple, blue or yellowish for green, etc.) so that fabrics will coordinate, but I think it’s just because I do it enough times over the years.