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Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
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Date: 
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:22:19 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, David Laswell wrote:
In lugnet.cad, scott Frischmann wrote:
I wonder why that color is called Bright Purple? On Bricklink and elsewhere,
it's called Dark Pink. It don't look purple at all.
What's the diff between pink and purple?
Pink = Red + White.
Purple = Red + Blue.

Don't burn out your brain trying to figure out how they came up with the
official color names.

That's why I went no farther than with the pinks/purples.

All that is required is to understand that there's some
_serious_ disparity between their names and ours.  For instance:

They call it Brick Yellow.  We call it Tan.
They call it Trans Brown.  We call it Trans Black or Smoke.
They call it Forest Green.  We call it Dark Green.
They call it Dark Green.  We call it Green.
They call it Earth Orange.  We call it Brown.
They call it Brown.  We call it Dark Flesh.

Now, there are a few that they did much better with than the AFOL community,
like how we call it Trans Medium Blue, but they (correctly) note that it's
actually Trans Flourescent Blue (if you're not sure which one it is, Trans Light
Blue looks like it might glow under blacklight but actually doesn't, while Trans
Medium Blue doesn't look like it will but actually does).
(snippage)

I see 2 possible solutions to this whole mess:
1. Poll/talk with everyone until names we can all agree on are found.
2. Drop names altogether and refer to colors strictly by their numbers.

The no. 2 option, of course, may not go over too well, as it would discourage
newbies. It may also turn off veteran AFOLs.

I would say more, but I don't wanna burn by brain.
Give it a colorful Splat!



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(...) If you can get Peeron/LDraw and Bricklink to agree on all color names, even if they don't match the official names, you win a freaking prize. (...) Yeah...it's hard enough for most people to keep track of a lot of the more common colors as it (...) (14 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
 
(...) Don't burn out your brain trying to figure out how they came up with the official color names. All that is required is to understand that there's some _serious_ disparity between their names and ours. For instance: They call it Brick Yellow. (...) (14 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)

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