# Weekend Rabbit Holes

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/library/collections/weekend-rabbit-holes
Source type: Collection

> Long, strange, and worth it. These are the entries you open on a Saturday morning and look up from at dusk: Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive essay on light, Jamie Wong's trip from hex code to…

## Summary

Long, strange, and worth it. These are the entries you open on a Saturday morning and look up from at dusk: Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive essay on light, Jamie Wong's trip from hex code to eyeball, Troy Sobotka's guide to what an RGB number actually means, Bruce MacEvoy's decades of watercolor color science, and a few toys — pigment mixing, disputed swatch names, a dictionary of 1930s color pairs — that are more fun than they have any right to be.

## Entries

1. [Color Spaces](https://colorcurio.us/library/bartosz-color-spaces): An interactive essay on how spectra, eyes, and RGB displays combine into the colors you see. ([source](https://ciechanow.ski/color-spaces/))
2. [Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs](https://colorcurio.us/library/color-from-hexcodes-to-eyeballs): From a hex code through the display’s light and the eye’s cones to the color you report seeing. ([source](https://jamie-wong.com/post/color/))
3. [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Digital Colour](https://colorcurio.us/library/hg2dc): Question-by-question answers to what an RGB value actually means, for image makers tired of guessing. ([source](https://hg2dc.com/))
4. [Color Controversy](https://colorcurio.us/library/color-controversy): Swatches that people name differently, and why the split in color naming is perceptual. ([source](https://colorcontroversy.com/))
5. [Is My Blue Your Blue?](https://colorcurio.us/library/ismy-blue): Call a run of hues blue or green to find your boundary, then see how it compares with everyone else’s. ([source](https://ismy.blue/))
6. [Color Survey Results](https://colorcurio.us/library/xkcd-color-survey): Five million color names from 222,500 sessions, with the 954 most common published as a free list. ([source](https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/))
7. [World Color Survey Visualizations](https://colorcurio.us/library/world-color-survey): Interactive views of the World Color Survey: how speakers of 110 languages named the Munsell chart. ([source](https://wcs.ijs.si/))
8. [Computer Color is Broken](https://colorcurio.us/library/computer-color-is-broken): A four-minute video on why blending sRGB values without undoing gamma gives dark, muddy edges. ([source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKnqECcg6Gw))
9. [Handprint: Color Vision](https://colorcurio.us/library/handprint-color): An exhaustive, footnoted treatise on color vision, color wheels, and pigment mixing, written for watercolorists. ([source](https://www.handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html))
10. [Mixbox](https://colorcurio.us/library/mixbox): A pigment-mixing model whose blends behave like paint, so blue and yellow make green instead of grey. ([source](https://scrtwpns.com/mixbox/))
11. [spectral.js](https://colorcurio.us/library/spectral-js): A JS library that mixes colors by spectral reflectance, so blends follow pigment curves. ([source](https://github.com/rvanwijnen/spectral.js))
12. [A Dictionary of Color Combinations](https://colorcurio.us/library/color-combo-dictionary): A digital edition of Sanzo Wada’s 1930s Dictionary of Color Combinations, browsable by pairing. ([source](https://sanzo-wada.dmbk.io/))
13. [Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours](https://colorcurio.us/library/werner-nomenclature): An interactive re-creation of Patrick Syme’s 19th-century color guide, each swatch named for an animal, plant, or mineral. ([source](https://www.c82.net/werner/))
14. [Nippon Colors](https://colorcurio.us/library/nippon-colors): Traditional Japanese colors from dyes and pigments, each with its name and values. ([source](https://nipponcolors.com/))
15. [Interaction of Color](https://colorcurio.us/library/interaction-of-color): Albers’ course in seeing color relatively, in Yale’s complete digital edition with interactive plates. ([source](https://interactionofcolor.com/))
16. [OKHSV and OKHSL Color Picker](https://colorcurio.us/library/color-picker-comparison): Compare HSV, HSL, Okhsv, and Okhsl pickers on the same color to see where hue and lightness distort. ([source](https://bottosson.github.io/misc/colorpicker/))
17. [Bruce Lindbloom’s Color Math](https://colorcurio.us/library/lindbloom): The reference for color math: working-space matrices, chromatic adaptation, equations, and a calculator to check against. ([source](http://www.brucelindbloom.com/))