What Color is a Tennis Ball?
Roger smiled and hesitantly replied, “yellow.” He was right. 2
If Roger had his hands on Konica Minolta’s CM-700d Spectrophotometer, he and his 42% of yellow poll-respondents would have been more confident in their color assessment. Why? The ultra-high precision CM-700d utilizes L*a*b* color space3; L* indicating lightness and a* or b* indicating chromaticity quality amongst coordinates. In a test done4 using the CM-700d (along with its color data software), the results clearly indicated that a standard tennis ball is closer to industry standard yellow rather than green, as seen in the data readings.
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1 https://twitter.com/cgpgrey/status/961700363131908096
2 https://twitter.com/delaneyanndold/status/975815880268550144
3 Other color spaces include but are not limited to: L*C* h*, XYZ, Yxy
4 L*a*b* test was performed using Ceram BCRA Series II tiles