Is it blue or green?

[Kit aka emrr]

Janet - I too have noticed that men and women see color differently, especially in the blue - green range. I hadn't picked up on age as a factor. What's the concensus? Kit

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Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

[Ainsley]

Men are frequently color blind in the blue-green spectrum. It may be mild to severe but is the most common form of color blindness. Women can have color blindness also but it is much more unusual. However, they do transmit it to their sons.

[Charles Lowry]

Wait'll I see my Mom again !!! Gr-r-r-r-r-r!!!

[cody]

Don't you just love it when some one goes through every mat sample and THEN tells you they are color blind.

[Janet]

Cody, how about the customer that goes through ALL your mat samples and doesn't have a clue that they ARE colorblind? Is there a subtle way to inform a person that "this color here don't go with that color there"?



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How cheap do you want it to look??

[po' framer]

Sheesh..... the baldness gene AND color blindness? Will the madness never end?

[Frank]

I used to work for a framer that was totally color blind. Red, green, purple, it was all the same grey to him. It used to kill us when people would come in as ask specifically for him because of his great color sense. He was very good at watching peoples eyes for their reactions when he placed colors on the artwork. When he had to work by himself he called it a white linen day. We sold a lot of fabric wraps with fillets on those days.

[po' framer]

Seriously, Frank, he probably had a great eye for shade and intensity matches which most of us would never see, although that's probably a poor second place to having to memorize the positions of the traffic lights.

[Charles Lowry]

Mom said " http://www.thegrumble.com/framer/ubbs/tongue.gif " .

[Audrey]

I read in Ye Olde Psychology Textbook that nine out of ten color blind people are men....as are most dogs.....:P

I find men, color blind or not, to be far more pliable than women. They're usually so confused that they welcome female advice of any kind....

On a more humorous note, my future sister-in-law has a carpenter boyfriend who gives her advice on what to paint her house. He tells her what colors are "in" and which are not, in all the new housing. She follows his advice faithfully.

Trouble is, he's as (color)blind as a bat. And this seems to bother everyone but my sister in law...."I don't need FRAMERS' advice on how to pick a palette! I have my colorblind boyfriend to help me!"

If it weren't so #### funny I'd be offended. http://www.thegrumble.com/framer/ubbs/wink.gif

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I don't care what color your sofa is.

[Janet]

Working with men at the sample counter is always a trip! I also find that they are easier to sell because they DON'T CARE what color their sofa is. (Maybe it's because alot of 'em don't KNOW what color it is).

Recently, I had a customer suggest that maybe I should carry ALL the paint chip swatches that paint stores offer so customer's would have an easier time matching their walls at the framing sample counter. But...keep in mind that she is the same customer that thought I should re-mat (at no charge) a print I'd framed for her several years ago as her walls have recently been painted more of a "biscuit" color rather than the original off-white. I asked her if she selected her new paint from the same paint store the original off-white came from. When she said she had, I asked her if the paint store GAVE her the new paint for free. She got my drift immediately! (Glad Charles wasn't at the counter...he'd have shot her!)

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How cheap do you want it to look??

[Rick Granick]

How do you diplomatically suggest to someone that they might be able to judge colors more accurately if they would remove their SUNGLASSES?
;) Rick