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Re: Why do you love bley?
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Wed, 9 May 2007 02:12:58 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Timothy Gould wrote:
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- More attractive hues which better match other LEGO colours
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Are you sure your eyes are working correctly? The vast majority of the LEGO
color palette has a warm tone to it, including “primary” blue, a color which is
traditionally supposed to be the far extreme of the cool palette. The bleys
have a very distinct and unusual (for LEGO parts) cool tone that actually
clashes with all but a handful of colors. The only shades I’ve been able to
find that work well with it are black (black works with everything), dark-blue,
dark-purple, sand blue, sand-purple, sand-green, and trans-dark-blue (one of the
lighter trans-blues has a greyish tone to it, so that’d probably work as well,
but the other trans-blue is almost aqua). Oh, and with each other. Even
dark-green has a warm tone to it that looks a bit off with dark-bley.
Now, I’ll admit that the bleys do have their uses (I recently finished building
a Dodge Tomahawk almost entirely in light-bley because I needed to use the
tile-slope extensively throughout, and light-bley can be used effectively to
represent newly paved roads next to the more weathered-concrete look of
light-grey), but that will never suddenly make them fit well with the rest of
the warm-centric LEGO color palette, except in one circumstance.
See, I’ve noticed that the only time that the bleys really look good is when
you’re in a store (usually TRU) and you’re looking at the in-store displays.
Under cool-white flourescent lighting. Which no sane person lights their home
with. Because it’s the most obnoxiously irritating light source you can
possibly use short of a malfunctioning arc-light. I’m fairly convinced at this
point that any alleged marketing groups were shown the colors under cool-white
flourescents, and that the goal was to make them have more visual pop in the
store even though it would necessarily mean that they suffered visually in the
homes of 99.9999% of their viable customer base.
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| (...) And Tan. And all the blues. And Dark Red. And it works fine in Technic models with Yellow, Red, White, etc. Actually, I like the new Aquaraiders sets, and they use a variety of colors with Bley, and nothing really clashes. (I've seen lots of (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
| | | Re: Why do you love bley?
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| (...) Actually I'm quite sure they are not but I still think bley looks better and as far as I know it doesn't fit in the range of error for my eyes. (...) I'd like to see some sort of citation or evidence for this. (URL) Isodomos> has a very (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
| | | Re: Why do you love bley?
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| (...) (snipped) As a trained graphic designer, and self-proclaimed student of color, I would like to point out that most art instruction books, professors, and other color experts state that pairing warm and cool colors creates stronger contrast and (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Why do you love bley?
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| Hi all, For everyone who has switched over I'd like to hear your reasons for doing so and stories or examples of why you're happy enough with the colour change to buy bley and use it. My reasons are as follows: Access to the absolutely fabulous new (...) (18 years ago, 8-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX) !!
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