At Tate Modern last year one floor of the elevator lobby was illuminated with bright, essentially monochromatic light (sodium yellow I think) and it gave the very curious effect of black-and-white vision - one rapidly 'tuned out' the yellowness but of course there was no other colour.
Sainsbury's (a major UK supermarket chain) has a corporate identity based on an orange colour. Unfortunately this means that their name is invisible on posters illuminated by sodium lighting.
Back in 1971, when I spent some time in the UK, the road rules had just changed to "dipped beams" in metropolitan areas, instead of "parking lights" only, but motorists were taking a while to get used to this in Southampton, where people were a bit more "laid back" than the bigger cities.
I remember one day, nearly getting run over by a taxi on a crosswalk.
The dark blue vehicle virtually disappeared under the Sodium lamps, & with no headlights, was very hard to see.
He probably had the same problem with my clothes!
A few years later, back for a week, I dropped in for a visit at a fish 'n chip shop I used to frequent in the same city, (anybody from SOTON remember the "Golden Chippy", up the road from the railway station?).
Leaving my hired
pink Ford Cortina in a car park, I strolled down, & talked to the owners for a while.
During this time, night fell, so when I came back to pick up the car, I couldn't initially find it------there was a
yellow Cortina, though!
Luckily, the keys had the rego number written on the tag!