What color is this dress?

[inavalan]

https://www.livescience.com/50842-dress-debate-color-perception.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/672270

[strangerthings]

I believe years ago when it first hit the socmed sites it was determined it is really blue? Something like that...
It was a "viral" thing people used to talk about on socmed.

I missed all those convos bc I don't have any socmed 😁

I wanted to add also that there is a "blue color" I see as purple. I do not see the blue ... I see its purple hues lol

Oh how many a playful arguments around that particular color have I had. lol

Also I imagine the camera's too play a role in this color of dress? That I think could be taken into account? Idk ?  I am only a color expert with my own eyeballs lol

[Deb]

Interesting.

Being involved in art, graphic design and photography for decades, my first reaction was that the dress was backlit and so in shade, which tends to lend a bluish cast with beige. On my desktop. Now seeing it on my laptop it looks a darker blue with maybe black stripes. For me it's a toss up between lighting and screen calibration. Without all the complicated psychology.

[LarryH]

I can see how the lighter color can be interpreted as either white or light blue, but I cannot see how what I see as gold can be interpreted as black. It's much lighter than black. I get how people might see tan, brown or yellow - but black?

[Deb]

Yep. On my laptop. It depends on the angle of my screen. Not a solid black, but faded like stonewashed black jeans.

Screens are calibrated differently, which makes graphic design a little complicated. Colors look different on Windows and Macs, other computer brands.

[strangerthings]

When you first posted this the dress for me was white and gold and now its blue and black!

I am on same device.

(Looks for gremlins)