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Re: Why do you love bley?
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Wed, 9 May 2007 11:01:54 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Laswell wrote:
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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?
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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.
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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.
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I’d like to see some sort of citation or evidence for this.
Isodomos has a very comprehensive colour guide
so perhaps rather than just accusing people of having malfunctioning eyes you
can back your argument up with some evidence.
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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.
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Plus the ones Tim listed and I find they work just as well as the old colours
with the whole range apart from yellows and yellowed white (but perfectly fine
with fresh white).
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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.
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Actually huge amounts of sane people light their homes with these. They’re an
environmentally preferable choice, last longer and use less power per brightness
level.
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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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Considering that it is very rare that people will actually see real Lego bricks
while purchasing Lego I find this an odd theory but YMMV.
Tim
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| (...) Well, when I was doing theatre lighting work, I was one of the few people who could color-match Rosco gels by eye. Maybe I just have an unusually well-developed eye for colors. Regardless, take a blue brick to an art store and compare it to (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| (...) Environmentally preferable? Why, because the lower power requirement? Then go with LEDs - at least you won't be polluting the environment with mercury when replacing your CFLs. FYI, incans are purported to quadruple in efficiency within 5-10 (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.color)
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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