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In lugnet.general, Justin Ritter wrote:
> With all this talk about new colors and the recent release of the official color
> palette from Lego now seems to be a perfect opportunity for Lego to release an
> official color reference.
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> One of the major problems I see with the new colors is that parts sellers on
> places like ebay and Bricklink won't necessarily be using the correct gray
> shades, so who knows if you'll be getting new gray or old gray. It seems that
> it would be pretty easy for Lego Direct to produce a "set" of bricks in all
> currently available colors, say a 2x4 in each color. Ideally each would be
> printed with the official Lego color number, but even a printed guide sheet
> would be fine. Not only would it ease identifying new gray from old, but also
> be useful for differentiating the different blues and greens which always cause
> confusion.
>
> This would make ordering bulk pieces from Lego easier too, if they ever expand
> their color selection. And while not solving color naming consistency across
> Peeron, Bricklink, LUGNET, etc. it would certainly be a step in the right
> direction.
>
> Just a thought, I'd love to hear any reactions.
There a number of color charts floating around. Here are links to two at peeron.
There are others (as the first peeron chart notes).
Peeron color and x-ref chart...
http://www.peeron.com/inv/colors
Chart provided to peeron by LEGO and believed to be the current active list of
colors at LEGO (as of a few months back). Interestingly, this chart has the
'new' colors on it. It even shows 3 shade of 'Stone Gray', thus far we have only
seen two of them in released sets. The new shade of brown *may* be the one
marked as 'Rust' (can anyone confirm this ?). Unknown to most people here at the
time, the release of this chart may have been a warning of sorts about the
impending color changes.
http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/colorguide.cgi
Ray
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| (...) Right, those references are great. I just thought it would be ideal to have an actual physical color reference, in ABS, like I'm sure the master builders have. It's something I would find awefully handy, but maybe others wouldn't. (21 years ago, 24-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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