Favorite color of fingernail polish?

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Berettafan21

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I know that people are going to make a lot of jokes about the title. I hope however that I also get some good responses. I am trying to decide what color of fingernail polish to use on the front sight of my new Taurus 617 in shadow gray titanium. I am considering something in florescent green. Anyone else have anyexperience with this? Thanx so much.
 
hehe... I was waiting for moderators to jump all over this one... until I read the actual post.

Supposedly bright neon orange is the easiest for the human eye to see. However, I've always found bright neon green or yellow to be easier to see. You probably can't go wrong with any of these, but I would avoid red, as I have a harder time seeing it compared to the neon greens and yellows, and I've heard that the human eye actually isn't terribly responsive to it.
 
birchwood-casey sight pen. You can get them at any sporting goods store and they'll save you face at the range.
 
According to color theory, warm colors like red and orange are percieved to be moving towards you while cool colors like blue and green appear to recede. Therefore, if you paint your front sight orange and your rear sight blue they should visually pop right together. I have yet to try this on my guns but I have made flat canvases appear to undulate.
 
Bright orange has always worked best for me...on the front sight, not my fingernails.

Orange fingernails clash too much with my outfits.
 
Spectral response of retina

The following figure shows the sensitivity of the human retina plotted as a function of wavelength (with a color overlay for interpretation ease) at normal light levels:
spectsee.jpg

At normal light levels, the "cones" provide the dominant signal, and you can see three distinct bands in the figure, corresponding to the three cone types, that are selectively responsive to blue, green, red light.

At low light levels, the cones don't do much, and the rods provide the dominant signal. There is only one type of rod (no color discrimination). The spectral response of the rods is shown here:
response.jpg


So, the takehome is that at normal light levels, royal blue is best, lime green 2nd, orange-yellow third. At low light levels, lime green is best.
Best overall then is lime green, IMO... that's what I just ordered from High-Viz for a fiber sight
 
I've tried red and orange

The bright orange ($1.79 at Walmart) works better for me than the bright red. I am anxious to try the flourescent lime green though.
 
For you golfers out there

I'll attest to the orange. I had an instructor tell me to buy a bunch of orange balls instead of white because I would be able to see and hit it better and it worked!

I would have qualified for the Master's but they wouldn't let me use them ;)
 
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