Is a house named "yellow" really yellow? Survey on the perception and naming of the yellow color on building facades depending on its hue, lightness and saturation
Authors:
- Justyna Tarajko-Kowalska
Abstract
The article's primary goal is to present the author's online color survey results. The study was aimed at checking which colors chosen from NCS Color System's four yellowish hue groups: G80Y, G90Y, Y, and Y10R are considered as "yellow". The 28 nuances differed in hue, lightness, and chroma, were presented separately on color swatches and building facades. At first, the respondents assessed the yellowness of selected colors and then indicated the most appropriate ones for the color term "yellow". The analysis of the 444 results confirmed the high importance of saturation and lightness (whiteness/blackness level) in color appearance and naming. The research proved that a given color is likely described as "yellow" only when its parameters of lightness and saturation are similar to the prototype of the yellow color category, characterized by high saturation and high intrinsic lightness. The clarity of the hue was also a significant factor.
- Record ID
- CUT0d4f9fe9eefe40ffb4b2c2c046ed4fc7
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Cultura e Scienza del Colore = Color Culture and Science, ISSN 2384-9568
- Issue year
- 2022
- Vol
- 14
- No
- 1
- Pages
- 94-100
- Other elements of collation
- fot.; rys.; tab.; wykr.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 100; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 14, No. 01
- Substantive notes
- Tyt. numeru: Colour Photography and Film
- Supplementary data can be found online at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f5eFCWPU3F_MOAADmP1vvWIDbP0OYbo2?usp=sharing
- Keywords in English
- yellow, color in architecture, color attributes, color naming, color appearance, color perception
- DOI
- DOI:10.23738/CCSJ.140112 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://jcolore.gruppodelcolore.it/ojs/index.php/CCSJ/issue/view/22 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 5
- Score source
- journalList
- Score
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT0d4f9fe9eefe40ffb4b2c2c046ed4fc7/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT0d4f9fe9eefe40ffb4b2c2c046ed4fc7
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