Perception Of Colour

Unless you've been hiding underneath a rock you've probably seen or read about the 'Blue & Black Dress'.  Some people saw it as Blue & Black and some people saw it as White & Gold. The picture went viral and people were going crazy arguing what colour it was (including myself).
Here's a picture of the dress in question

What do you see?  I saw White & Gold to begin with.... I was then told it was Blue & Black and when I went to look at the picture again it had 'changed' colour to blue and black.  I was sure it was a trick and the person showing me had changed the picture but this was not the case.  It made me think do we all see colours the same?  This I don't know but what I do know for sure is peoples perception of a colour can be completely different!  Whether it be blue, green, yellow or red everyone has a colour in their mind for each and they can be completely different shades from person to person.  A popular colour we get comments on is purple.  Some will call it lilac and some will call it aubergine.  It can get confusing!  Imagine the trouble with our grey voile panels we have since 50 shades of grey was released 'What shade of grey is it?'.
This is a nice graphic of colour shades.

What you need to understand when ordering online is that the name of the colour is just a name.  Our red might be different from what you call red.  For instance maybe when you hear red you think of a deep colour like burgundy?  More often than not the pictures will help you determine what shade the colour is but please be aware computer monitors can display colours differently especially if you have different settings.  Fortunately at CurtainsDirect2u we have an easy returns process if the colour was not as expected.