The library of rare colors

Tom Scott
2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2019–2021
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3.3M views · 7 years ago · explainer · evergreen

Tom Scott visits a collection of rare pigments and talks about colors that are hard to make, find or reproduce. It is a short explainer on where colors come from and why some are rare.

HN offers it, with Scott's pink video, as a pair to watch for anyone curious about color, especially around rare and endangered pigments.

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@mimixco2019 · in “The Library of Rare Colors”
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@CaliforniaKarl2019 · in “YInMn Blue”
For a small set of other color-related videos, have a look at two from Tom Scott: • "The Library of Rare Colors": ▶ this video • "I Can't Show You How Pink This Pink Is": link The latter video makes me wonder: Is there a good way of finding out if a monitor, or even an entire color space, can contain this color? This may be a pigment where you really can't tell exactly what it looks like on-screen, because either the screen cannot display the color or the color space being used can not encode the color (or because the camera sensor can't properly capture the color).
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@evanb2021 · in “A man preserving endangered colours”
Relevant: "I can't show you how pink this pink is." by Tom Scott link Also relevant, his piece on "The Library of Rare Colors" ▶ this video
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