Yes and as said in the article, it was not an artistic choice but economical (in transistors).
To me it looks almost as if the text says
Which they were able to do, because they had "total control over hue, saturation and luminance". It was only a matter of selecting the resistor values. And to lower the number of resistors, some colors are the exact opposite side of the color wheel, which is called "complementary colors", which is, according to the internet, a kind of an artistic thing or something.
If you don't get the idea, you'll surely trust what Alfred H. Wikipedia says on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors
The use of complementary colors is an important aspect of aesthetically pleasing art and graphic design.
So there, it is a scientifically proven fact that the C64 color palette is artistic.
this reminds me of something
one day I read in wikipedia that the MSX color numbers are random, got no appearant pattern.
ok now lets crack the pattern 
it started out with the plain RGBI palette!
and then the most unimportant colors, color 6 dark cyan and color 12 dark magenta, were replaced by a third red and a third green.
the bits in a color number mean this:
bit 0: intensity
bit 1: green
bit 2: blue
bit 3: red
all colors fit this pattern, except the third red color 6 and the third green color 12.
change bit 0 to change intensity:
color 0,1 black
color 2,3 green
color 4,5 blue
color 6,7 exception, dark cyan replaced
color 8,9 red
color 10,11 yellow
color 12,13 exception, dark magenta replaced
color 14,15 white
and in the end the whole idea is turned to milky colors like atari commodore.
Yes and as said in the article, it was not an artistic choice but economical (in transistors).
To me it looks almost as if the text says
Which they were able to do, because they had "total control over hue, saturation and luminance". It was only a matter of selecting the resistor values. And to lower the number of resistors, some colors are the exact opposite side of the color wheel, which is called "complementary colors", which is, according to the internet, a kind of an artistic thing or something.
If you don't get the idea, you'll surely trust what Alfred H. Wikipedia says on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors
The use of complementary colors is an important aspect of aesthetically pleasing art and graphic design.
So there, it is a scientifically proven fact that the C64 color palette is artistic.
to me this means this : ' we had total freedom in choice of colors, meaning that no one had defined which colors to use, but we were limited to the constrain to minimize die size'. Thus it was not an artistic choice , but instead an economical one.
