Color My World

[word_geek]

Courtesy of hells_satans, a little test for you: Color acuity test. Lower scores are better.

Comments

[tangerinpenguin]

If you've ever seen a newly-minted web designer with the world's most perfect site color scheme on his monitor reduced to tearful despair during a demo on the VP's laptop, you're probably not going to be terribly worried about your score :)

[word_geek]

Yes, it also occurred to me to find one of those "web-safe color test" sites and apply that to this test's page, but...too lazy.

[_kent]

Woohoo. 4. A color acuitist is me!

Have to say, I think maybe this is more a test of patience than anything else.

[free_laddicals]

Agreed. I did two lines, then gave up and clicked "submit". Scored a very low score very flat across the first half of the result screen and then naturally everything went to hell for the second half.

[shiny_bauble]

Also scored a 4, all right next to each other in the Indigo slot.

It was interesting. I probably would have done much worse if it was just a 1v1 comparison, but I could sort of let my eyes relax and look more for overall discontinuities rather than individual colors.

[fish_tie]

I got a 4 too. Interesting.

[word_geek]

In the interest of full disclosure, I scored a 0, perfect. I think I got it by doing what Shiny suggested up above: After I bubble-sorted all the tiles in a row, I just looked at the whole row as one piece, and spotted any inconsistencies.

This is going to cause problems for me, though -- I have long maintained that as a guy, I can only see eight colors. This is supposed to relieve me from having to choose among 100 nearly-identical paint chips for the bathroom wall, and at work, it's supposed to get me out of choosing among 100 nearly-identical PanTone chips to guess which color blue best represents "cloud-based enterprise networking infrastructure" or something equally silly.