Comments on: Japanese Color Blending

By: Sayma

Sayma — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:45:26 +0000

This is nothing racial I think. Some people like some stuff. I am not those anime fans, but I still think your tool is nice.

By: Christoph von Lingen

Christoph von Lingen — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:38:50 +0000

I’d love to have color blender extended to both sides of the “spectrum”, so that colors darker as well as lighter than the two given ones are calculated. I don’t know a thing about java script – perhaps somebody else can help?

By: nat

nat — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:03:33 +0000

what a nifty tool!

By: PurplePenny

PurplePenny — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:08:16 +0000

I’ve been thinking about explanations for the popularity of your colour blender in Chinese blogs. Internet access is heavily censored and controlled in China and many use blogging as a method of free speech. In which case they will all be reading each other’s blogs. So if one blogger finds your blender and posts a link, others will pick it up.

Now this could just be because the blender is ace or it could be to get people to Meyerweb via an innocuous link. Now that would be really cool if it was a sort of code to alert Chinese bloggers to a site that shows what freedom of speech is all about.

By: Laurens Holst

Laurens Holst — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:42:19 +0000

You can recognise Japanese because it has a lot of simpler characters in it. Japanese writing is composed of Kanji (Chinese) and Kana (Japanese) characters, while Chinese only uses Kanji. The Kana characters are much simpler. Kanji characters also rarely use round shapes, while Hiragana (a subset of Kana) does use them.

E.g. this would be the Japanese word for “I” using Kana: わたし
And this is the same word using Kanji: 私

A trademark character by which you can easily recognise Japanese is の, indicating a posessive relationship between two words (私の車 = “My car”), which is used very frequently.

~Grauw

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 23:11:41 +0000

My Japanese flat made can’t tell French from Spanish, but I can’t tell Chinease from Mandarin.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:20:22 +0000

Eric, dude that color blender rocks! Thanks for another handy tool to make my job easier…

By: Jonathan Stanley

Jonathan Stanley — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 03:02:52 +0000

The Asian blogs on Technorati are (mainland) Chinese, not Japanese… though the one using the Hiragana isn’t just decoration. The Japanese “の” in used in place of the Chinese “之”, which has the same meaning, which is more than what can be said of “branding” in the English speaking west abusing the extended Latin and sometimes Cyrillic characters in trying to fake a Germanic/Nordic/Russian feel.

As to why the colour blender is so popular, that is a bit of an enigma… perhaps droves of teenage Chinese girls are using it to colour co-ordinate their wardrobes? :D

By: Tsee

Tsee — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:59:00 +0000

Quinn, written Chinese is the same for Mandarin and Cantonese (there are people who write EXTREMELY EXTREMELY EXTREMELY informally in Cantonese colloquials, but I’d consider it more Chinese ebonics than anything else. As for animes, it’s just as hot in Hong Kong as it is in Taiwan, and China aired major Japanese animes as early as the 80′s. HOWEVER, do not tie Taiwan and Japan in any way in front of partisan Chinese, b/c the relationship btwn those two places has a lot to do w. Japanese occupation of that island. You DON’T want to go there. ;-)

By: Quinn

Quinn — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:03:02 +0000

The word “Japanese” caught my attention, but like Mike said earlier, these blogs are written in Chinese. I can’t even distinguish whether they are in Cantonese or Mandarin though. While conflicts between the Chinese and the Japanese still exist, there are lots of Japanese anime and pop culture fans in Taiwan. This is nothing racial I think. Some people like some stuff. I am not those anime fans, but I still think your tool is nice. I hope that somebody read Chinese can give you more ideas of what they are actually talking about your tool.

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:51:20 +0000

I checked the font to see which language it was, and it came up a Japanese font, so… I made the obvious assumption. Chinese, then? Interesting.

By: Mike Mariano

Mike Mariano — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:08:36 +0000

FYI, the first few pages of that Technorati search list no Japanese blogs. There are plenty of Chinese blogs, as well as blogs from France and Chile.

I clicked on one blog that used a Japanese character, but it ended up being a Chinese blog that used the hiragana for decoration. And it looks good! Red China is winning the ASCII Art Race!

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:07:29 +0000

What do your referrer logs say?