[Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheels.

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

You know what might be neet, a software package that you type in your color and it gave you choices of coordinating colors.  Also if we could type in a color and get a verbal descriptive of that color.  I never knew mauve had pink in it.  I really do not know what it looks like.

Terry P.


-----Original Message-----
From: linda [mailto:the_ninn at tx.rr.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 4:22 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheels.

Okay, I'm having a little trouble with the color wheel  concept - can anyone say "Wheel of Fortune?"  ((smile)  I mean, Braille takes up a lot of room and Based on the design of my own color wheel from when I could see, a wheel
would have to be as big as the Wheel of Fortune to accommodate    all of the
primary ,secondary and tertiary  colors  and all of the hues and shades that result from blending them and Brailled to boot!  I am having a little trouble wrapping my brain around this.  However, a ring with the colors printed on card stock with Braille labels That you can sort through might just work. What do you guys think?  
Having trouble thinking outside of the box, Ninn The_ninn at tx.rr.com

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[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dixie
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 10:24 AM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheels.

I used to use the DMC embroidery floss quite a bit while doing my cross stitch.  They have hundreds of colors that they designated by numbers.  I used to be able to pretty much  tell a color by its number and vice versa.
So for example I could say I wanted 3021 and know exactly what shade of brown that is.  I only have a couple of those numbers left in my head.  Like
666 was a bright Christmas red.  And, their numbers had no rhyme or reason to my thinking.  I think they were just the next number in line when they added a new color, as opposed to having the 600s represent the reds.

But, it would be very cool if we could get a company like that to make up some kind  of color chart or wheel for us.



Dixie

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