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Re: Official LEGO Color Chart
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Date: 
Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:33:07 GMT
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Quoting Purple Dave <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com>:

In lugnet.announce, Dan Boger wrote:
Thanks to Jake and TLC, we just posted an official LEGO color chart, with
RGB, CMYK, and Pantone colors, and a danglish name!

Take a look:

     Eesh.  As neat as that is to see, the color samples for a lot of them
(especially the red/purple range) look like various shades of puce on my
monitor, and I'm not used to having problems in that color range.  It took
me
about five minutes to match up just the 14 transparent colors, and I
suspect
it's going to be at least ten times harder to match up all of the regular
opaque
colors.

We will be working in the next few weeks with LDraw to associate each of
these colors with our current names.

     Good luck.  You're going to need it.  I've seen instances of
identically
colored parts being listed as either violet or purple, and other parts
being
listed as either light blue or medium blue.  The inconsistency of color
identification from inventory submissions is going to add in an annoying
challenge.  Hopefully, though, this will provide the first step towards
better
color matching.

That's the plan.  It's very difficult to always match up colors when not
everyone has every color to compare it to.  One person may have a lot (or all of
them) but another may only have a few.  It's not a problem limited to Peeron as
well, as I've bought parts that were listed as one color that it was clearly not
when it arrived.  Colors are always the most difficult IMO, descriptors like
"light" and "dark" and what not tend to be very subjective and relative to one's
collection. :)

Jennifer



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(...) Eesh. As neat as that is to see, the color samples for a lot of them (especially the red/purple range) look like various shades of puce on my monitor, and I'm not used to having problems in that color range. It took me about five minutes to (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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