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This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

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Reference the article primary colors at it's first appearance in the article[edit]

Change: Similarly, most human color perceptions can be generated by a mixture of three colors called primaries. This is used to reproduce color scenes in photography, printing, television, and other media. There are a number of methods or color spaces for specifying a color in terms of three particular primary colors. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages depending on the particular application.

to: Similarly, most human color perceptions can be generated by a mixture of three colors called primaries. This is used to reproduce color scenes in photography, printing, television, and other media. There are a number of methods or color spaces for specifying a color in terms of three particular primary colors. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages depending on the particular application.

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Why is the original English word colour not stated first instead of the American English word color? Surely the original and most used word in many countries should be first? What is the reasoning behind this? Seymour79 (talk) 03:46, 4 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The way Wikipedia community conventions have developed, each article uses internally consistent spelling, but there is no site-wide spelling convention (see WP:ENGVAR). This particular article uses American English, but some others use British English. –jacobolus (t) 04:24, 4 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Not done: because ↑. 3mi1y (talk) 07:05, 4 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It may be worth pointing out to the OP that there is a Wikipedia page titled Colour. It is a redirect to this article. So there is no problem for anyone searching for that version of the word. HiLo48 (talk) 09:16, 4 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Revised the lead[edit]

I boldly revised the lead to make it more comprehensive and accessible. I've also removed the (American English) and (British English) as it kinda clutters the lead and the fact that there are a lot more variants of English than just these two. In practice, both names are used interchangeably in both countries and any user that want to know that information can just look it up at dictionaries. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:45, 5 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Took a quick glance. Looks good. Maybe you would be a good candidate to explain what color models and color spaces actually are, which our articles don't really do. North8000 (talk) 16:23, 6 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@North8000 What other section should I improve first? I really want to improve the entire article, but I'm not sure which section is the easiest to research about. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 17:15, 9 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

An informative explanation on what a Color model and Color space actually is would be a good addition here. And then add that to those two articles because they don't have it. North8000 (talk) 17:58, 9 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

These aren't super well defined terms in technical literature (and even worse on Wikipedia). Anyone trying to clarify here should probably start by reading some books on the subject though. Maybe try Kuehni's books Color Space and its Divisions and Color Ordered. –jacobolus (t) 00:19, 10 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I think that the problem in Wikipedia on these is that the articles cover the trees don't explain the forest. North8000 (talk) 19:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Rewriting the article[edit]

Time to do it :) CactiStaccingCrane 14:01, 25 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Edit from black color screen to normal regular screen 2600:4041:5B63:AD00:A027:A99:EEDE:23D7 (talk) 10:43, 19 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]