A matter of great importance

[tardis_stowaway]

Greetings, wise f-list!  I saw a description of Eleven's hair color in an otherwise wonderful fanfic that confused me, since it was vastly different from what his hair looks like to me.  However, it occurs to me that I'm not sure I've looked at Eleven on anything other than my laptop screen, so maybe my colors are off.  However, everything else (like photos of people I know) seems to be colored correctly.  I mentioned it to the author, and she stands by her description.  It's entirely possible that I am crazy!  I look to you to resolve the confusion.[Poll #1585424]
I've deliberately chosen an Eleven-free icon so any coloring effects by the icon makers will not affect your voting.  Feel free to discuss or elaborate in the comments!

Comments

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

Medium? No way! Tennant's I'd describe as medium brown, or maybe chestnut. Matt Smith's is very dark brown, darker than John Barrowman's, and I'd say pretty close to black.

[sahiya.livejournal.com]

Uh. I have to disagree here. It is darker than Tennant's, but I would say it's definitely lighter than John Barrowman's and nowhere in the ballpark of black.

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

*squints* Matt Smith's hair looks lighter than Barrowman's to me. I'd call it darker than Tennant's, but not by much, and I just don't see it as anywhere near black.

Take home lesson: color perception is highly individual.

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

I'd have to see him and Barrowman together under the same lighting, but *my* colour perception says that Smith's and Tennant's hair colour aren't even in the same universe. How weird!