Detecting a skin tone in an image is a challenging problem, because it depends a lot on lighting, shadows, how prominent a face is, blurriness, and many other factors. The most accurate way to detect a skin tone in a Pin’s image would be to have a human label every single Pin image according to a scientific skin tone palette. But with billions of unique images, and many more created each day, that’s an expensive approach that would be hard to scale.
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/building-a-more-inclusive-way-to-search-789f4c92fd73
Category Archives: color
Understanding the cultural meaning of colour
Dead Salmon and Elephant’s Breath: How a British paint maker’s oddball colors redefined luxury
In the aftermath of World War II, the West was upended by a do-it-yourself boom. IKEA was founded in 1943, with its first flat-pack furniture catalog released just a few years later. By 1954, Time magazine had dedicated its August cover story to the phenomenon, declaring DIY “the new billion-dollar hobby.”
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/farrow-and-ball-brand-history/index.html
The Blue story- A color which was ‘seen and named’ much later in the western world
The color blue has been an integral part of Indian civilization. The Indigo dying process dates back to the ancient Indus valley of Harappa. The mention of “blue gods” in Hinduism (Shiva, Vishnu, Krishna, Rama) indeed emphasizes the fact that blue had a significant presence in Indian culture for thousands of years. However, as Leo Shvedsky wrote in the article at Good.is, ancient civilizations had no word for the color blue. It was the last color to appear in many languages, including Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and Hebrew. Read more
Where the 1960s “psychedelic” look came from
The story behind the color of your couch, and everything else you own
Analyzing Trends with Tim Stock 