The Effect of Light on Color

If you are on social media, you probably remember this picture from a few years back.  The question was "is the dress blue and black or white and gold?" (For those of you who missed this little gem, here's a link explaining the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress )

 
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It all depends on the light!

If you look at the picture in different lighting you can see how different it looks:

 
 
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This is why its important to specify what light you want your products matched in!  Something that looks cherry red under one light source might look orange under different conditions.

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