color recognition

Seeing different shades

Color recognition is the ability to identify and distinguish colors.

In human development, it marks a cognitive milestone when children can name colors accurately: Her color recognition is advanced for her age.

The term also applies to technology—cameras, sensors, and software that detect and classify colors: The app uses color recognition to identify paint samples.

Related

cool tones · pigment · vision · perception · matching · palette · swatch · brightness · saturation · blindness · wavelength · retina · cones · distinguish · identify · sorting · primary · chromatic

Opposites
visual property detected

color recognitionmotion detection

Identifying displacement automatically

depth perception · edge detection

perceptual ability/disability

color recognitioncolor blindness

Inability to perceive hues

deuteranopia · protanopia

Family

color, colour, recognition, colors, colours, colored, coloured, colorful, colourful

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G