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Hello,
I'm trying to create a LEGO color reference list were I want to link (match) the
different color naming systems together. At this moment I try to match up the
Peeron color names, BrickLink color names and the official LEGO color names. I
found some usefull web pages like http://www.peeron.com/inv/colors and
http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorTree and the links at the bottom of this page.
The official LEGO color web page I have saved locally on my laptop and therefore
I don't know the link anymore.
The Peeron color guide is a good start but is not complete anymore. Linking to
the official LEGO colors is based upon a based guess principle.
Does anyone has a reference like the one I'm trying to compile or can you help
me with my attempt?
Thanks,
Stefan Sanders
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 05:44:33 GMT, "Stefan Sanders"
<stefansanders@wanadoo.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to create a LEGO color reference list were I want to link (match) the
> different color naming systems together. At this moment I try to match up the
> Peeron color names, BrickLink color names and the official LEGO color names. I
> found some usefull web pages like http://www.peeron.com/inv/colors and
> http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorTree and the links at the bottom of this page.
> The official LEGO color web page I have saved locally on my laptop and therefore
> I don't know the link anymore.
>
> The Peeron color guide is a good start but is not complete anymore. Linking to
> the official LEGO colors is based upon a based guess principle.
>
> Does anyone has a reference like the one I'm trying to compile or can you help
> me with my attempt?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan Sanders
Have a look at Clark Stephens' site:
http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorRoots
Duq
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> > The Peeron color guide is a good start but is not complete anymore.
> > Linking to the official LEGO colors is based upon a based guess principle.
> >
> > Does anyone has a reference like the one I'm trying to compile or
> > can you help me with my attempt?
>
>
> Have a look at Clark Stephens' site:
> http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorRoots
>
> Duq
That's a better reference then the one on the Peeron site and it links the
BrickLink names and Peeron names together. But what about the official LEGO
color names?
Stefan.
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I don't believe they have official names, only numbers. I have photographs
of a reference board hanging in the model shop at LLW that shows these
numbers and which may be of use:
http://www.brickish.org/members/files/hmillington/PIC00019.jpg
http://www.brickish.org/members/files/hmillington/PIC00020.jpg
They were taken a year or so ago so won't have the new bleys etc. on them.
Huw
"Stefan Sanders" <stefansanders@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
news:Hz16ro.74I@lugnet.com...
> > > The Peeron color guide is a good start but is not complete anymore.
> > > Linking to the official LEGO colors is based upon a based guess • principle.
> > >
> > > Does anyone has a reference like the one I'm trying to compile or
> > > can you help me with my attempt?
> >
> >
> > Have a look at Clark Stephens' site:
> > http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorRoots
> >
> > Duq
>
> That's a better reference then the one on the Peeron site and it links the
> BrickLink names and Peeron names together. But what about the official • LEGO
> color names?
>
> Stefan.
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In lugnet.general, Huw Millington wrote:
> I don't believe they have official names, only numbers. I have photographs
> of a reference board hanging in the model shop at LLW that shows these
> numbers and which may be of use:
They do have official names (many of them horribly confusing), but they're
probably regulated by the number codes. It's certainly easier to look up a
color by number than by name, which is why paint chips use both (customers like
to know that they're getting "moldy cheese green" instead of "color #348", but
the guy who has to mix up their quart needs to be able to quickly and easily
look up the recipe so he knows how much of which color needs to be added to
achieve the color they asked for). Besides, can you imagine trying to fit
"transparent medium blue" on one of those 2x2 white tiles? And then hoping that
the guys on the floor don't accidentally run "transparent light blue"?
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In lugnet.general, Stefan Sanders wrote:
> That's a better reference then the one on the Peeron site and it links the
> BrickLink names and Peeron names together. But what about the official LEGO
> color names?
Are you really sure you want to get into the wacky naming system used by The
LEGO Company? What we commonly know as "smoke" or "trans-black" is officially
known as "trans-brown". "Red" is "bright red", "blue" is "bright blue", but
"green" is "dark-green" (which makes you wonder what the new dark green color is
called). "Tan" is "brick yellow". "Brown" is either listed as some form of
orange or "orange" is listed as some form of brown, but I can't remember which
(all I remember is being completely confused when I first saw it used, but the
webpage is no longer available).
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In lugnet.general, Stefan Sanders wrote:
> > > The Peeron color guide is a good start but is not complete anymore.
> > > Linking to the official LEGO colors is based upon a based guess principle.
> > >
> > > Does anyone has a reference like the one I'm trying to compile or
> > > can you help me with my attempt?
> >
> >
> > Have a look at Clark Stephens' site:
> > http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorRoots
> >
> > Duq
>
> That's a better reference then the one on the Peeron site and it links the
> BrickLink names and Peeron names together. But what about the official LEGO
> color names?
>
> Stefan.
I'm not sure why Peeron doesn't have a link to this on the main page, but they
actually got an 'official guide' with RGB/CMYK/Pantone from Lego last year:
http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/colorguide.cgi
Seems like I've used that as a guide repeatedly, since it came from an official
source, though each time I need to find it, I have to do a search for it on
Lugnet:
http://news.lugnet.com/announce/?n=2207
DaveE
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In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote:
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I’m not sure why Peeron doesn’t have a link to this on the main page, but
they actually got an ‘official guide’ with RGB/CMYK/Pantone from Lego last
year:
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But they do have it linked from the main page. On the left side there’s a
bulleted list of indexes, and the official color chart is the bottom link on
that list, right above the PayPal and Amazon.com mini-banners.
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In lugnet.general, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote:
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I’m not sure why Peeron doesn’t have a link to this on the main page, but
they actually got an ‘official guide’ with RGB/CMYK/Pantone from Lego last
year:
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But they do have it linked from the main page. On the left side there’s a
bulleted list of indexes, and the official color chart is the bottom link on
that list, right above the PayPal and Amazon.com mini-banners.
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Heh, they do now :)
(Thanks, Dan!)
DaveE
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In lugnet.general, Stefan Sanders wrote:
Duq directed:
> > Have a look at Clark Stephens' site:
> > http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorRoots
>
> That's a better reference then the one on the Peeron site and it links the
> BrickLink names and Peeron names together. But what about the official LEGO
> color names?
Dig a little deeper. Besides the Color Roots page, Clark also has the LEGO Color
Tree page, which relates the official LEGO colors to the fan equivalents.
http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorTree
Steve
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In lugnet.general, Stefan Sanders wrote:
> > > The Peeron color guide is a good start but is not complete anymore.
> > > Linking to the official LEGO colors is based upon a based guess principle.
> > >
> > > Does anyone has a reference like the one I'm trying to compile or
> > > can you help me with my attempt?
> >
> >
> > Have a look at Clark Stephens' site:
> > http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorRoots
> >
> > Duq
>
> That's a better reference then the one on the Peeron site and it links the
> BrickLink names and Peeron names together. But what about the official LEGO
> color names?
>
> Stefan.
Stefan,
My Color Tree provides the links you want. It gives a comparison of the current
fan-named colors, matches to official Lego color names and numbers, and links to
more information - just click on any color name to be taken to more info (fan
names link to the Roots page, Lego names link to the Lego list):
http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorTree
The Color Tree Roots gives conversions between color names on Bricklink, Peeron,
and Ldraw. It also gives information about themes the color appears in, and
significant sets with the color. Links here go to color-specific part lists on
BL & Peeron, and if you click the picture takes you back to the Color Tree.
http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorRoots
The Lego Color List is a compilation of the known color numbers as publicly
shared by Lego. The list includes the Peeron color list, tile pictures taken by
fans, and other information publicly posted. The Peeron list included
conversions of Lego colors into CYMK, RGB, HTML, and Pantone color values, other
sources did not include that info. Names here are linked back to the Color Tree.
http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorLego
The Color Tree Translator gives translations of many of the Color Tree names
into 7 different languages - German, Italian, French, Spanish, Danish, Dutch,
and Portuguese. The English name on this list links back to the Color Tree.
http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorTrans
Until recently, there were very few Lego Official color numbers matched to AFOL
color names, which is why they were not included on the Roots page. I found the
Color Tree a better presentation of the unmatched colors. As you can see in the
tree, there are still a lot of Lego numbers that need matching.
I recently updated the Tree with info from Richard's post. All of my info is
from public online sources. I'll be adding the info from the tile pictures
shared in this thread soon. I'm always looking to improve the Tree, and make it
more useful. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Hope that helps,
Clark
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In lugnet.general, Clark Stephens wrote:
> >
> > That's a better reference then the one on the Peeron site and it links the
> > BrickLink names and Peeron names together. But what about the official LEGO
> > color names?
> >
> > Stefan.
>
> Stefan,
> My Color Tree provides the links you want. It gives a comparison of the current
> fan-named colors, matches to official Lego color names and numbers, and links to
> more information - just click on any color name to be taken to more info (fan
> names link to the Roots page, Lego names link to the Lego list):
> http://www.isodomos.com/VPH/ColorTree
>
> ....
>
> Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Clark
Before I asked this question I saw these webpages but I truely underestimated
the content! The link between BrickLink names and Peeron names is on one page
and the link between Peeron names and LEGO names is on the other. What I was
trying to compile was a list with all three names in it. OK, I know that the
LEGO names are wacky and not used and a translation between BrickLink names and
Peeron names is in practice enough, but I just wanted to have the overview
complete.
Suggestions for you (feel free to do anything with(out) it:
- The Color Roots page does not show all the correct names. The one I noticed is
e.g. the new Dark Gray color. The BrickLink name is Dark Bluish Gray and the
Peeron name is DkStone.
- I started to create a simple Excel sheet containing the names. I will finish
it and if you're interested I give it to you.
What I meant with the LEGO color names is indeed the hidden link on Peeron. I
also don't understand why it's not available on the website. Thank you David for
the tip.
Stefan.
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