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Re: Getting more colors locked.
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lugnet.ambassadors
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Fri, 7 Sep 2007 04:01:54 GMT
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In lugnet.ambassadors, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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In lugnet.ambassadors, Rob Ross wrote:
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If so, then why are color descriptions on the shop-at-home site different
from this list?
For example, there’s no “Dark Green” on Jake’s list, but the “classic” green
color (such as the current green waffle/baseplates or the classic Spruce aka
Pine trees) are listed as being “Dark Green” at the shop at home site.
Also, I’ve never seen any bricks from LEGO that are “Nougat” or “Light
Nougat” colored. But then I’ve only been an AFOL for almost a year.
So, can someone provide an officially official list of color names that LEGO
uses for their actual products? That would be a good start, in my opinion,
for being able to exactly match color names in the various lexicons in use
(Bricklink, Peeron, SAH, etc.)
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This had been discussed back when I was an Ambassador. Essentially, as hard
as it is to believe, there is NO official list of color names. When you
think about it, working in different languages and now with computer
generated models, having no list of color names makes a little sense. There
are official names, but they are like “B334-556-78787dhsk=-hhdfjjd” - in
other words, computerized gobbily gook, not “Dark Blue.”
I had a conversation with Jake and Steve about this issue, and Jake mentioned
that if the Community could standardize its names, it would be easier for the
company to follow suit. Right now, the company has no need for a standard
list and so it won’t make one. If the community makes the list, it is easy
for the company to follow behind. The hard point is that there is no
‘leader’ for color names - Blink calls it one thing, Ldraw something else.
So, we get a sort of catch-22.
I’m not involved in Peeron, Blink, or Ldraw, and I’m no longer an Ambassador.
I’m expressing what I understood of the situation based on a few
conversation. Hopes that helps.
-Lenny Hoffman, former Ambassador
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Here is a list from Peeron of what presumably are official LEGO colors:
http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/colorguide.cgi
and here is a chart from them that I have found quite helpful for comparing
colors that have different names on different databases:
http://www.peeron.com/inv/colors
Maggie C.
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| (...) This had been discussed back when I was an Ambassador. Essentially, as hard as it is to believe, there is NO official list of color names. When you think about it, working in different languages and now with computer generated models, having (...) (17 years ago, 7-Sep-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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