What Color Is My Hoodie? 

Please contain all your "color" vs "colour" comments in this thread. Good luck.

it'll always be a red T-shirt in our hearts

I like the idea that Tom just has a seperate wardrobe with like 20 grey hoodies and about a hundred red shirts

"Those aren't all the same hoodie, I have several but they're identical" Tom literally has a cartoon character wardrobe of endless rows of the exact same gray hoodie, red T-shirt and pants.

Having met Tom, I can confirm that his hoodie is indeed grey, and also he's taller than you think.

"this hoodie is fine as long as I don't film in front of a grey sky." *LIVES IN ENGLAND*

2:38 with a snap of his fingers, Tom was transported to hollywood Mexico, and later at 3:28 was transported to every hollywood sci-fi setting ever. Incredible.

"Technically those aren't all the same hoodie. I've got several, but they're all identical." Tom is a cartoon character confirmed.

For those wondering if any trains came 1:20 a Gatwick Express 387 passes under 5:20 a Thameslink 700 passes under

No, Tom. Don't do this to me. The internet has already ruined many things for me. Your hoodie is grey. Your shirts are red. That is how it is and will always be. You cannot convince me otherwise.

Finally, I can complete my Tom cosplay with a color-accurate hoodie

Imagine telling your friends your favorite color is Amethyst Sky and they look it up and it's actually just grey.

Fun fact: it also works with paper. The regular printing paper is slightly blue to appear "extra white". That's why when you're buying paper to make your own book, it's better to buy cream paper (slightly orange), or pearl paper (slightly grey) as it appears more natural for a book than bright white/slightly blue.

"Hey that's a nice grey hoodie you got there." "Ah, no, you see, it's actually AMETHYST SKY."

"I'm not sure that's helpful" is paint names in a nutshell

2:54 I love how the text changes from "color" to "colour"

Somebody should make a 10 hour compilation of Tom saying "ever so slightly"

Fun fact: modern detergents commonly use fluorescent particles that emit blue light instead of dye, so when they're advertising as "make your clothes whiter than white" they are actually doing that. They are adding more light than you would receive instead!

As someone who runs 100% Digital Vibrance colors on my monitors When you changed back to "daylight" and it all become blue, it felt like getting flashbanged

I think a good way to experience this, is by sitting inside a (probably children') tent, with a neon colour - such that on the inside, everything has a hue of that colour. Sit inside for half an hour or so and you'll feel how that colour is kind of missing when you step outside - as if it's greyed out - but your brain quickly re-adjusts. However, if you've additionally had the horrid experience of being really sick inside one and had to stay inside for an entire day, your brain gets really confused when you step outside. It's a really weird experience - but you become extremely self-aware of how your brain interprets colours. I'd compare it to when you've been inside a cooled car for hours, only to step out into high heat - that weird minute or two where your body re-adjusts: It's like that, but with the brain. (This experience was also my inspiration to become a web designer)

The only channel that can make the phrase "History of Laundry" sound exciting

Tom Scott always shows up in my feed like, "I know you don't think you're interested in this, but you are." And sure enough, I am.

Okay, but the REAL shock is how much younger tom looks in the indoor shots vs the outdoor shots

>"My hoodie is colored... Amethyst Sky" >Refuses to elaborate >Leaves Gigachad move

I've been binge listening to Tom Scott videos studying for exam season and my inner monologue is now starting to talk with a sarcastic British accent...slightly concerned

Anything Tom wears automatically becomes a red shirt, even if it isn't a red shirt.

Tom Scott is the youngest looking old guy or the oldest looking young guy, and I can never decide which.

"If I am filming under a blank, gray sky, it can make the shot look a little dull." Tom, you live in Britain.

2:54 the word “colo(u)r” “glitching” between having and not having a u is great

Adding a touch of blue to make something look whiter is used in cake decorating as well. Blue food colouring makes buttercream look extra white.

Other YTers: ahh, theres a bird outside I gotta stop recording. *train drives by* Tom: *speaks louder* Genius.

I work for a company that dyes yarn. I also do product photography for our website. This exact issue is something I struggle with every day. I will edit the photos and then check them on multiple screens that have each been calibrated differently before publishing any of the photos to our website. While this is not exactly the best way of doing it, and it is not necessarily the most color accurate method, I've found that if I get the colors looking good enough across multiple screens, customers will not be upset with the color accuracy of our website. Of course we also have a disclaimer on our website, that says that the final product may differ from what they see on screen due to not only the differences in screens but in the differences in dye lots.

2:54 hehe the flickering "colour"/"color" was a nice little detail

"Laundry bluing" is still a thing here in many households in Ghana, including mine. Wash your singlets with the blue dye, and they'll look brand new.

I don't know if Tom reads the comments, but I feel like we don't thank him enough for his weekly, high-quality videos. So thanks, Tom! I really love and appreciate your work

fun fact: the title changes depending on where you view it from: "What Colour Is My Hoodie" if you are in UK "What Color Is My Hoodie" if you are in USA

That hoodie isn't just grey, it's heather grey, which means that depending on the precision of the colour sensor you're using, the heather pattern might get a different result from different positions on the fabric. That might be why you got "amethyst sky". Another millimetre over, and you might get something very different.

That final, “I’m not sure that’s helpful,” has a lot of potential as a stand-alone clip.

Colors Tom Scott wears: - red - _Amethyst Sky_

As far as I know from my training as a laboratory paint assistant and chemical coatings engineer the companys are adding a bit of blue dyes because the most common white pigment Titandioxide (TiO2) absorbs slightly light in the blue wavelength region. Therefore the neat TiO2 looks very slightly yellow. Adding a blue dye copensates this effect and for us it appears more "white". (:

"Amethyst Sky" vs Gray Hoodie It's kind of like when you're trying to draw digitally and the color picker's little preview square doesn't look quite right but you put it on the drawing and it suddenly makes sense

Me, with the "night light" setting on my computer so high everything is bright orange: "I'll just take your word for it."

Tom: How can I make my life harder? Tom's brain: shoot on a railway bridge.

The color glitching to colour is very good detail.

Tom revealed the exact color of the hoodie...now we just have to wait until someone paints their home walls “Tom’s Hoodie Grey” and the process will be complete :P

I hadn't realised that Tom uses either the grey hoodie or the red shirt in all of his videos. That's some serious commitment...

I love how they add fluorescent dyes into laundry detergent to make your clothes literally whiter than white.

As an artist, color perception is not only super interesting, but also CRUCIAL to know when you are composing a piece.

Plot twist: Tom's hoodie is a hue of green and he's using video editing to mess with our heads.

While laundry bluing might not exist anymore, detergent companies add optical brighteners to their products. They absorb UV and emit blue to achieve the same illusion of 'cleaner' clothes.

I just realized im more interested in the history of Laundry than doing Laundry myself

They needed this video back when there was that debate with the blue/gold dress image floating around

The part about looking dirty is probably why Lego discontinued their original grey colors and replaced them with bluish-grey.

Talking about colour perception: Aw, okay... History of laundry: Now THIS is what I subscribe for.

I'm slightly convinced that Tom got a fancy new color detecting toy and then quickly threw together a video about colors just to use it on camera

I prefer a warm light setting on my computer screen. It's easier on my eyes.

Two month ago: I'm running out of ideas. Today: What color is my hoodie? Checks out.

This guy can make a video about anything and still make it interesting

Oh so you buy both your red t-shirts AND grey hoodies in bulk? Classic Tom Scott

I've noticed the same with car headlights. You can tell the age of a car by the headlight hue. The older it is, the more yellow, and the newer, the bluer.

I'm from india and we have an interesting history of blue dye called indigo here. The Brits made the farmers grow it in huge amounts because they made lots of money by selling it. It was used as blue ink and to blue clothes. We still use it in indian households after washing the clothes, put a couple of drops in a bucket and soak the clothes in it. They look shiny as new.

"...That I couldn't understand" That is terrifying.

As a kid, I discovered that all my white clothes were ever so slightly blue. I assumed that was because white was just a shade of blue and no other color could be brightened to pure white. Now I know what was really going on.

this is probably the best explanation of perception of Colour there is on the internet

Tom's like my spirit animal, overthink and overcomplicate absolutely anything possible.

Imagine asking someone an icebreaker like: What's your favourite colour? And them replying with 'Amethyst Sky'

The flicker between the US an UK english was brilliant 😂

Lovely video! I am currently studying colo(u)r science, and finding accurate information on social media is so difficult! This is a breath of fresh air. Thank you!

Maybe the real colour of your hoodie is the friends we made along the way.

I'm just gonna say it: Tom running out of ideas is a blessing in disguise.

I once watched an animated TV program, in which the two main characters had slightly different skin tones. I got curious and sampled the colors from a still frame, and found the character who everyone read as "pale" was a slightly bluish white, while the character whose skin read to us as "normal human skin" was actually *pure white*.

Just love your videos Tom, you have unlocked interests for me and I am very grateful ::)

me seeing the train coming at 1:08 : *the sound is about to get messy*

I have a feeling that thanks to the slight stonewash patterning on that hoodie he'd get a different paint name every time.

Imagine staring out of your window on a train journey and seeing Tom just chilling with his cameraman on a hill with a grey hoodie.

I can't believe tom scott's hoodie would be such an enigma

"Whiter than white" actually added something that made white clothing luminesce (fluoresce? I'm never sure) under UV lighting. I remember a stage production from when I was younger that exploited that: they turned the visible lights off at one point and the white shirts literally glowed in the dark.

Toms buys his hoodies? I always though the universe just manifested the hoodies and red tshirts on his closet, to maintain cosmic balance.

You know things are not going as usual if Tom's pinned comment is only 4 days old.

I love how in the video you use both color/colour but when you wrote the video title you HAD to decide between one and the other. You've made your choice. Sincerely, Me & Henry the vacuum cleaner

I changed nearly all the bulbs in my house to 4000k/5000k color temperature LED's. In most cases, yellow lighting makes me sad. EDIT: The 5000k does give off a bit of a blueish tint. In one light fixture in my bedroom, I did one 5000k LED, and one normal light bulb with a yellowish tint (don't know the exact temperature, probably around 2,700k-3000k) It's on a fixture where you can turn on each bulb separately. Not only can you choose the mood. But if you turn both on, it makes the off-white wall have an oddly pleasant, but not overpowering effect. I really like it. It was an experiment after the two 5000k bulbs seemed overpowering for my nighttime lamp.

We have learned a lot of cool things because of your generic choice of clothing. I truly appreciate you. You’re one of a kind and I love it

There's a whole psychological theory behind colour temperature as well. Generally cooler colours are more clinical, serious, factual. Generally warmer colours are more comforting, friendly, romantic. If you want to be taken seriously - be blue. If you want a more emotional, sympathetic connection, make your pictures warm. It's also interesting that the colour temperature of the light in a room affects a person's body temperature.

Tom, you’re the only person who can make “The History of Laundry” interesting. Bravo 👏

i once looked for "laundry bluing" in grocery stores (for reasons), and the only person i found who even knew what that was, just paused, before saying they hadn't heard those words, or seen any, in a _long_ time

4:09 Lego did the same thing when they started manufacturing their own plastics (instead of outsourcing) around 2004 - 2006. Some of the competitor's bricks seemed "newer" and "cleaner" to children than Lego, because Lego's true light & dark gray betrayed their age more with harsh yellowing. Now they add a touch of blue dye into the plastics to make them seem "shinier" and "newer." (much to the chagrin of some older Lego fans)

Props for standing by there all day to wait for the lighting to be just right

You literally have the most satisfying endings

See the hoodie in whatever colour your heart desires, but the T-shirt is always gonna be red.

i was so confused by the hoodie being as grey as the sky, and the wall not being white at all but very greyish.... and then i realized that my monitor had the "night light" setting on

Every large light in my home is colour adjustable, some for the full spectrum, some just cold and warm white. I choose depending on task and mood, and it's improved my life significantly. I even installed an Apple Homekit switch into my bedroom light switch because I couldn't find the same product in a Smart Home compatible version: A light bulb with three different temperatures down to 2700k - and the tip of the bulb in a shape that spreads out the light non-uniformly, which in combination with my specifically chosen lampshades give the whole thing a visual aesthetic of something like a campfire in the sky.

As a teenager, I used to delight in adding huge amounts of “Bluo” laundry blueing liquid to my school uniform washes... Ta-Da! Blue socks and blouses rather than greyish white.... I was sooooo cool 😎

I lived in Liberia for a couple years doing work for Peace Corps, and while I was there you could buy the bluing agent for laundry. Only you could also buy modern detergent, and lots of families would use both. Since I wasn't familiar with what the blue powdery stuff was I asked what it's purpose was, and the locals I talked to weren't exactly certain but were still fairly confident that they were supposed to use it to make the clothes look good because that's what their parents had taught them. Nice to finally have an answer!

Imagine you're just taking a train and spot Tom through the window talking to himself in the middle of nowhere

the only mainstream video to get color right. congrats tom

On the blueing - you do something similar in baking. When you make buttercream, it's usually a bit yellow ('cause of the butter solids!) but if you want it whiter you add like, purple dye. It's completely counter productive, adding in a very dark dye into your mix to make it lighter, but it works!

As a colorblind person this is a valid question

"they're not the same hoodie, but they're identical" of course

this makes me want to make tom scott into a dungeons and dragons character with a color changing hoodie used for camouflage

As a professional colourist (dying and screenprinting) , when ever I wash my whites, I always add in a royal blue cotton towel. Top Tips. And thank goodness Tom didn't include the McCollough Effect into this explanation, that would be a massive rabbit hole to fall down...