Monitor Calibration

There is a tremendously funny scene in the classic humor book Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgins (also a very funny movie with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy) where Mrs. Blandings is trying to describe to her interior decorator the color of paint that she wants in her living room: “The color is to be a soft green, not as bluish as a robin’s egg, but not as yellow as daffodil buds. The sample enclosed, which is the best I could get, is a little too yellow, but don’t let whoever mixes it go to the other extreme and get it too blue. It should just be a sort of grayish apple green.”

The decorator patiently listens to her detailed (not to mention inventive) description, but he knows that she’s probably never going to be satisfied with the color that he chooses. Still, her painstaking efforts to describe the specific color she wants are very well intentioned: she’s trying to find a common color language with the decorator so that she gets