Color blindness and scale color

[Doc Dan]

A great portion of men have very poor color differentiation and a lot of men are color blind. Not all men have poor color perception, but I would say most do. Some men have very acute color perception, and most women have better color perception than most men.

A lot of this is easily seen in discussions of scale colors. To one, the scales look gray and to another blue. To one a scale looks green and to another blue. One sees red and another rust or orange. I also think that poor color perception by men, who are the majority of knife makers and buyers, is why scales have terrible colors or are basic black.

Because of this poor color perception many men have trouble matching colors, whether for clothes, house paint, or knife accessories.

There is another problem with color perception, also, especially amongst younger people who grew up without the 120 color Crayola Crayon packs. (Some colors in them have been discontinued, also). There seems to be little education on color differentiation and without visual cues how are people to know? What is the difference between green-blue and blue-green, or orange-red and red-orange, for example? This is not to mention some of the more subtle colors.

A case in point: The younger folks at Henson Razors used to have a razor in a color they called Azure. The problem is that the razor is bright green. Azure is a nice blue.

Here is a Crayola list of colors and subtilties. https://crayola.fandom.com/wiki/List_of ... yon_colors

[RustyIron]

A case in point: The younger folks at Henson Razors used to have a razor in a color they called Azure. The problem is that the razor is bright green. Azure is a nice blue.

Here is a Crayola list of colors and subtilties.

Mine knives are magnificent colors of the rainbow,
and it matters not by which color you label them.

I think the king is but a man, as I am:
the Manix appears as lovely to him as it doth to me.

[LakeOconee]

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[Evil D]

I've done a fair amount of art stuff in my life. I think I do pretty well.

[knivesandbooks]

Men seem to have a smaller color name vocabulary as well. It's difficult to different shades and colors when you don't have a word for it. In fact, you probably don't even see the color. Such as cultures that didn't have words for the color blue. If you don't have a word for it, it's not real.

[Mushroom]

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LOL!!!

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Most men are not colorblind. Males may be more susceptible to color blindness then females but the vast majority of people in general see colors just fine.

Exact perception of colors is difficult when the color is being digitally displayed. Color settings will vary widely between different monitors and phones. Also, the lighting conditions of the actual photo can effect how the color is perceived.

Color is largely marketing and knives need to be marketed to certain demographics. Those demographics have really expanded in the past decade or so though, so we’ve actually seen a lot of knives with a variety of new colors. I believe Black is used as a neutral color not because men have trouble perceiving colors.

If you’re really interested in applying labels to colors with minor ambiguities, look into the Pantone color chart. https://www.pantone-colours.com/

Chances are better than not that is what Spyderco uses when referencing color with their manufacturers. It is a worldwide manufacturing standard.

[JRinFL]

Color blind males tend be very sensitive about it as well. I’ve noticed that through the years.

[Mushroom]

Color blind males tend be very sensitive about it as well. I’ve noticed that through the years.

How can you tell when someone is colorblind?

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They will tell you.