Brown

I mean, silver is just shiny grey dude

That was fun. You know what “color” blows my mind? Silver. Try making a convincing silver with that HSL triangle (or CMYK or whatever you want) even if you make a gradient. Then when I tried to dye my hair a silver/platinum color, I was amazed again! Bleaching can only get to a range from brown to ecru. To get silver or platinum (or closer to white) you have to add “toner” ie slightly purple dye. I guess because they are complementary and you can’t “subtract” any more color after bleaching you have to add something.

David Larsen

Excellent video. Being smart to understand something is a gift. Being clever enough to explain something well to others is a talent. Watching your channel, you have repeatedly done the latter, with good humor to boot. Glad I continue to be a Patreon supporter. Keep up the great work!

Bill Bates

brown is just dark orange‽ mind brown!

adcurtin

Congratulations! Your video is in the front page of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22324298

Pedro Paulo Vezza Campos

I laughed at 咖啡色 (Android even auto-completed the 色 in that phrase) and yes, I also studied Mandarin way back when.

Michael Dunn

What an unexpected crossover. I fully approve. Saw only the title "Brown" on the mobile notification and thought it was just going to be a fascinating dive in to the strangeness that is the color brow. As always exceeded expectations, literally. The small tip in to language was a nice addition, that might even be worth its own quick video sometime.

Kadah

this was a good video

Sweet, I love this color series. Seeing as you got into pigments, if you’re considering future topics, I’ve always wondered why that for the two sets of “primary colors” (RGB for light, RBY for pigments), 2 of the 3 are the same but the third one is different. Which then leads me to wonder _are_ the reds the same and the blues the same in each scheme, or are they also different (like green and yellow are different) but close enough to be called the same thing?

Johnathan Reale

Since my day job is managing a print shop, this video hit me right where I live. Spot on analysis!

James Jepsen

Brilliant video!

Brian Condron

Who knew brown could be so interesting?

Chris Crowther

It might be quite interesting to look at how a Philips Ambilight TV works in this context. The screen displays brown, but the Ambilight will (presumably) light up the wall some shade of orange?

Zveebo

This was terrific! I always kinda thought brown was a darker shade of orange--thanks for looking into it.

Mark Hesse

Excellent! Very nicely done!

Eric Korenman

This brings me back to electronics school in the early 1970s. We were studying color TV, with the requisite diagram of color space. One of the students asked, "where is brown?" The instructor didn't have a decent answer and I wondered about it myself until today. Thank you. Now I can sleep well.

Bruce Davis

I just realized what the grunting was all about. I am not ashamed to admit that I giggled.

wait not even a picture of a zune?

hfidek

Fifty Shades of Brown, indeed Alec!!! One of your best! (better than any art or science teacher ever did, especially the biology teacher when explaining the digestion system). Now, time to relax in my natural leather chair, cuppa coffee and chocolate in hand as I admire the wooden furniture.

Joe Kudrna

Wow, this video was awesome. And made me think about how could we might give context to light... For example with vantablack and some crystal structure that changes it's transparency, giving a true black background that helps absorbe the excess light... Idk, just rambling here. See, now I'm getting into colors

Well done, most of it, I already figured out myself, but a very nice way of explaining it, thanks Alec! And I have a question for you, you might be able to answer, or, at least be also fascinated by it: why are the colors of traffic lights (both for road and railroad traffic) red, orange and green, and not colors spaced further apart, like red, green and blue? Especially: why is orange used and not yellow (although the orange light is often called "yellow")?

MrHammond

It's times like this that i'm sad I can't see the difference between brown and red

I'm fairly convinced, after watching this video, that you are in fact two children in a tweed sport coat.

Sean Hearrell

“Duck Tales, whoohoo”

Bastien Nocera

I’ve been going through a process of determining color matches for my day job. Browns and PMS can be a nightmare to get right. This video was fun by comparison.

Anicast

Good to see Robert! Another one of my patreon creators.

Michael Steeves

For further fun, Tom Scott on the color grue: https://youtu.be/2TtnD4jmCDQ

V.E. Griffith

Of course only you could make an interesting 20 min video about brown so entertaining. You should have a play with my favourite “color/illuminant” 365nm (UVA), things get pretty confusing, in a dimly lit room with a seemingly dim violet light; some colors are what you’d expect but some are slightly too saturated or desaturated while some are missing completely and something that was one colour is now two colors separated by material and others are impossibly bright for such a dim light. And then there’s things that just flat out change color and glow.

WizardTim

;)

Technology Connections

I liked this video, but I'm a tiny bit biased

Aging Wheels

Were the cuts to Robert saying "brown" an homage to Mr. Black in the camp Krusty episode of the Simpsons?

Retro Game Club podcast retrogameclub.net

Don’t know you speak Chinese. Good work!

Zhenbang Xiao

Brown rocks. So does this video.

Professor Kroog

Awesome once again and very interesting!

Kilrah