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The human eye can distinguish on the order of a million colours, depending on light, context and the person seeing them.

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Colour perception comes from cone cells, brain processing and comparison with surrounding light. We have far fewer colour words than colour differences we can notice. This matters in art, design, safety signs and screens around the world. The so-what: seeing is measurement and interpretation at once.

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