• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    This explains it neatly, the “gold” (which isn’t a color btw) is just brown, and the blue is quite light.

    It’s all about contrasts, put a color near a light one and it appears darker, put it near a darker one and it appears lighter.

    Bet the bordercolor on different browsers/phones made it look more one way or another.

    Also, cold shadows are devoid of yellow so a blue is easily mistaken for a shadow. The impressionist used this trick a lot, light blue/cyan for shadows. Sounds crazy but it works.

    Very clever trick.