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Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
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lugnet.cad
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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.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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 (...) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) 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. (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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