Is the color “amber” best classified as yellow, orange, red, or brown?
…for me. But color is often a matter of perception. Everyone sees color a little differently, show a group of people some intermediate shades like amber, teal, or rose and ask each person what they would call the color. You will get quite a few different answers. We can usually agree on the basic colors like red, yellow, green, blue, black, white, grey, etc. But from there things get a little murky. This is not helped out but every paint company, dye maker, clothing line, crayon box, and home catalog feeling they have to make up their own names for every color. Things get even more confused. Print media professionals, manufacturers and others have to face this challenge every day. How do you specify a very specific color for your product. To do this we have developed something called a color space, a precise definition of a range of possible colors. There is both a universal color space, a range of
