# How good of an eye for colour do you have? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970 "2008-09-10T18:04:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BrattiAtti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@BrattiAtti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrattiAtti)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/81 "2008-09-11T13:54:54Z")
Your score: 0 Gender: Female Age range: 20-29 ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/82 "2008-09-11T13:56:48Z")
- Your score: 33 - Gender: Male - Age range: 20-29 - Best score for your gender and age range: 0 - Highest score for your gender and age range: 1492 Didn’t do as well as I’d hoped, since I adore color and partly work as a graphic designer. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/83 "2008-09-11T14:34:30Z")
Score: 4 Gender: Male Age: 16-19 I’m quite surprised at that. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/84 "2008-09-11T14:40:58Z")
Female, 30s. Score:8 There were a couple that I knew were wrong, but I couldn’t figure out how to make them right. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/85 "2008-09-11T14:46:00Z")
Male, 20 I got a 24 ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/86 "2008-09-11T15:57:33Z")
I am a male in my 20’s, scored 4. My errors were in the blue-green area. It made me think of a “quarrel” I had with my girlfriend, regarding whether my house was green or blue. I claimed that it is green, while she claimed that it is blue. She tried to stop other people on the street to confirm her blue opinion, while I tried to stop her from embarassing me 🙂 Later we photographed the house to see what a higher end camera would say. It gave a slightly higher blue component than green, but only slightly so. Small enough to be caused by variations in sensor sensitivity. Who chose such a confusing color for my house? Maybe I should ask the landlord to paint it a less ambiguous color. ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/87 "2008-09-11T16:05:00Z")
Also, I am quite sure that the monitor plays quite a big role. Even monitor settings can change the results quite a lot. Different monitors have very different color accuracy, and some cheap LCD panels use only a dithered 18-bit color depth instead of 24 (“true color”). ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/88 "2008-09-11T16:25:08Z")
Female, 27 - scored 18. Took my time with it. The last two seemed more difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/89 "2008-09-11T16:38:39Z")
Your score: 75 Gender: Female Age range: 30-39 Best score for your gender and age range: 0 Highest score for your gender and age range: 1476 I had the worst trouble with greens. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/90 "2008-09-11T17:01:30Z")
I got an 11, which I think is pretty good because I don’t think of myself as very good at that kind of thing. 40 and female by the way. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/91 "2008-09-11T17:05:22Z")
I scored an 8. I’m a woman and I turn 34 on the first of the month. I’m quite curious how my wife will score, as she is color blind. The far left side of the third bar seemed to give me the most trouble, but when I had looked at the last bar for awhile and then went back, it seemed much easier to see that I had actually gotten it right though it had been difficult originally. I suppose I had to cleanse my pallet, so to speak? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/92 "2008-09-11T17:59:45Z")
> [@Daerlyn](#): > > I am feeling less happy with my 27 now. I scored 27 too. I think I could have tweaked the pink to peach a bit more but I’m still happy about it. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/93 "2008-09-11T18:09:42Z")
Male 37 I got a 3. I worked for years as a scenic artist matching color samples to designer drawings, so it was pretty easy. I felt like I could see a gradient across the individual squares that got better once they were in the right order. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/94 "2008-09-11T18:20:16Z")
I scored surprisingly well, with a 7. I’m a 31 year old male, and I’ve always thought I was somewhat colorblind. Now what am I supposed to tell people when they ask me what the hell I’m wearing? ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/95 "2008-09-11T18:22:48Z")
> [@Henrichek](#): > > I am a male in my 20’s, scored 4. > > My errors were in the blue-green area. It made me think of a “quarrel” I had with my girlfriend, regarding whether my house was green or blue. I claimed that it is green, while she claimed that it is blue. She tried to stop other people on the street to confirm her blue opinion, while I tried to stop her from embarassing me 🙂 Later we photographed the house to see what a higher end camera would say. It gave a slightly higher blue component than green, but only slightly so. Small enough to be caused by variations in sensor sensitivity. Who chose such a confusing color for my house? Maybe I should ask the landlord to paint it a less ambiguous color. Wow. I mean, I know that people like that exist, I just have never had to deal with them. I mean, is it really that important to be “right” about whether your house is blue or green? I am guessing it is aqua – pretty popular colour and ambiguous for some people. Quite often, I have to explain to people that while yes, the robin’s egg blue will co-ordinate with the aqua, it tends more towards the green and therefore, if they’re trying for the “Tiffany” wedding, they might want to avoid it – and maybe only 1 in 20 understand. I hate people. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/96 "2008-09-11T18:24:43Z")
[ul] [li]Your score: 3[/li][li]Gender: Male[/li][li]Age range: 30-39[/li][/ul] I spend a lot of time creating very complex and colorful graphs (2 & 3 dimensional) and many times I will use color as another dimension… Must have payed off. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/97 "2008-09-11T18:41:09Z")
Female, aged 48. When I tried it on my laptop, I got an embarrassing score of 49. On my husband’s much better monitor, my score dropped to 16. I’m inclined to believe that the difference was due to the quality of the monitors, because my main area of difficulty both times was the range where blue and green blend. This is amusing to me, because I love to wear shades of turquoise. Fortunately, I tend to only wear one blue-green garment at a time. I do mix different shades of turquoise jewelry together. It looks okay to me; I hope I don’t appear all kinds of tacky to others. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/98 "2008-09-11T18:55:58Z")
Your score: 11 Gender: Male Age range: 30-39 Best score for your gender and age range: 0 Highest score for your gender and age range: 1464 See, Dad! an Art degree IS good for something! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/99 "2008-09-11T19:35:37Z")
Your score: 22 Gender: Female Age range: 20-29 Best score for your gender and age range: 0 Highest score for your gender and age range: 1409 I feel so… average. I also blame my crappy work laptop. And uhh… the sun was in my eyes and I was thinking about something else. Right. ---
**Author:** ![misling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@misling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misling)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/100 "2008-09-11T19:51:52Z")
- Your score: 4 - Gender: Female - Age range: 40-49 - Best score for your gender and age range: 0 - Highest score for your gender and age range: 1409 According to the chart given with the results, all my errors were in the greens. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970.md?page=6)