The OCD in me objects to the colors not being in chromatic order. On the other hand, if you wanted to maximize visual contrast between adjacent colors, then a sensible order would be black, red, green, purple, orange, blue.
The idea of having a consistent arrangement is that you don’t need to look at your pens to know which one to pull. The ordering is simply such that if somebody copies this idea, then I can visit their house and use their magazine, without looking, in case I forgot mine. Probably low probability.
It’s probably easier to get a consistent arrangement when you don’t chose the arrangement randomly but follow some heuristic like chromatic order or visual contrast. Proposing to standardize something in a supoptimal has less change of success and you end up with a worse standard.
The OCD in me objects to the colors not being in chromatic order. On the other hand, if you wanted to maximize visual contrast between adjacent colors, then a sensible order would be black, red, green, purple, orange, blue.
The idea of having a consistent arrangement is that you don’t need to look at your pens to know which one to pull. The ordering is simply such that if somebody copies this idea, then I can visit their house and use their magazine, without looking, in case I forgot mine. Probably low probability.
It’s probably easier to get a consistent arrangement when you don’t chose the arrangement randomly but follow some heuristic like chromatic order or visual contrast. Proposing to standardize something in a supoptimal has less change of success and you end up with a worse standard.
That’s a good point. You are right. I learned something about how to write a good standardisation. Nice!
I think it makes sense to have Black Red Green Blue because of RGB and these are the most common. But after that sorting after hue value make sense.
I updated the OP to use HSL and HSV.