#but without a pursuit of color would you stumble across vibrancy by accident?

[chimerafeathers]

just kidding i got advice from a friend on how to do this

isa sif and bonnie had like one (1) potential color change each outside of the solid blacks & whites so i ignored them.

harder than expected to get color combos to look bad. why is that so easy to do when i'm trying to make things look Good.

spent a really long time thinking about what types of materials would end up being used for dyes and how they would be processed if No Color Vision and then somewhat partially gave up on that pursuit in favor of just trying really really hard to make the colors ugly together

maybe this is a net 0 info post and the gang is in less dire straits than theorized

WAIT WAIT WAIT

i keep thinking how odd it feels to see ISaT fanart in full color (it’s always great and i love seeing people’s interpretations of everything but still!) because the characters canonically seeing the world in black and white shades is so fascinating to me, how it would influence things in subtle ways that are and aren’t actually explored in canon

so it leads to the overthinking rabbit hole of “in the context of this colorful fanart, is this an au where colored sight returns/was never forgotten? or are the characters still seeing the world in monochrome and this is just what they would look like to us? what WOULD their world look like to us—WAIT.”

and that’s when i remembered the Addams Family set in color.

according to the theater production class i took a long time ago, sets for theater and productions like this had to carefully choose colors based on how the lighting would make them appear to the audience; the Addams Family set couldn’t be in more “appropriate” colors because it would show up muddled and indistinguishable, while the seemingly uncharacteristic bright pinks and yellows appear as clear and readable shades when filming in black-and-white.

all this to say i think it would be really funny if everyone in ISaT is actually wearing the most appalling and strange color combinations if viewed in color because the resulting monochrome shades look nice and have good contrast together