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Re: Color chart
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lugnet.faq, lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Mon, 29 May 2000 18:38:01 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Frank Filz writes:
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I think we should press LD to make it easy for us and release a special LD
brick bucket with a reasonable assortment of basic bricks in EVERY color known
to the LEGOverse. :-) :-) :-)

Frank

Hey! this seems like serioiusly a resonable thing to ask LD for, in connection
with ordering elements. I wonder if they've got anything prepared for online
color selection. (?)

So many companies provide things like a free set of color swatches (or cost $X
without placing an order). I'm thinking of paper companies, fabric sellers, and
even furniture makers like Herman Miller who have swatch sets for their Aeron
chair. Come to think of it, I've seen plastics companies provide industrial
designers with thick color tiles.

Anyway, it's fun to imagine what a LD color swatch guide could be like. I'm sure
their color division at LEGO has the absolutely precise matching capability to
do something simple on heavy cardstock. Could even have the metalics and
transparents- kinda like the AVON nail polish catalog. (not that many of you
guys have seen those, but perhaps).

Then, if they actually made little elements as samples, it'd be perfect to have
something like the 2x2 plate with extention for hole.. must look up part... Ah!
cool, here it is:

    http://www.lugnet.com/cad/ldraw/parts/ref/search.cgi?q=3176

Imagine dozens of those on a string? Color combo heaven! Of course I'm just
daydreaming, but...

-Suz



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  Re: Color chart
 
(...) I hope so! Maybe a bit far-fetched, but they could even have their ordering system online, with part AND color selection. That would be fabulous. I've heard some ideas jumbled around; and TLC probably already has something like LDraw's (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.lego.direct)
  Re: Color chart
 
(...) sure (...) Well, your sweetie knows more about this than I do, but my understanding is that if you want really really precise matches, only a sample of the actual thing in question will do. Anything that's done with other pigments may not be (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.lego.direct)
  Re: Color chart
 
(...) sure (...) Most graphics types use pantone as a standard - see : www.pantone.com. I'd imagine a colour / color standard based on the wavelength would also be simple? Scott A (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.lego.direct)

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  Re: Color chart
 
(...) I keep thinking about making a color chart. The problem is the colors I only have a handfull of examples of, and especially those which the only example is an awkward piece. I think we should press LD to make it easy for us and release a (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.faq)

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