I'm making a collection of color pallets for school.
Here is what I have so far... Send me pics of things that you think are interesting color pallets so I can include them.
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@owen Not to be too much the company stooge, but I've always appreciated the NBC colors and how (Hofstader warning) they seem like the "same" shade of each color.
@B yeah might be interesting to collect different rainbows... Already have Tony's
@owen I also like that NBC uses a six color rainbow, which is appropriate. Supposedly Newton forced seven (indigo? really?) because of his deep religiosity and the positive significance of 7 and negative connotation of 6 in Christianity.
@B although most musical scales are organized around having seven unique pitch classes and if we're assigning rainbow colors to musical notes Sir Isaac Newton system is better
@owen So, what color are the notes?
@B C-red D-orange E-yellow F-green G-blue A-purple B-magenta
Actually fairly standardized. Most painted child xylophones use these colors and boomerwackers also use these colors
@B I spoke incorrectly boomerwackers have two greens and many xylophones have the octave pink for some reason. What does seem to be consistent is c is red and d is orange
@owen Yeah, that's how they do it. But how would you do it? What color is B minor? E major?
@B I would keep C red I would make E natural yellow and I would make G sharp or A flat blue and divide the spaces in between evenly based off the chromatic scale.
This system keeps what is already fairly standardized (C red D orange E yellow) but takes into account the chromatic scale and has the advantage of being based off of a 12th note system which is evenly divisible by three and six!
@owen Any variations for major or minor? I know we're not talking about single notes anymore, but how would somebody with synathesia "see" different chords?
@owen Also, you can include grey to fill out the primary/secondary sextet if you need seven.
@owen Exactly. I love seven because it is the oddest of the odd numbers, but that's what makes it so hard to work with.