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Re: All The Pretty Colors (Re: The shades of blue (Re: Marsek Blue might be available soon))
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lugnet.general, lugnet.db.brictionary
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Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:31:28 GMT
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Mark P wrote:
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> In lugnet.general, Thomas Garrison writes:
> > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Mark P wrote:
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> > > I think the colors Peeron uses are not 100% accurate, or up-to-date.
> >
> > Probably. . .TLC seems to come out with new colors all the time, and very
> > few people have enough variety of sets to make detailed comparisons
> > (especially since so many obscure colors seem to appear in Scala and
> > Belville). Color charts have been done before, but it would be helpful to
> > have a global chart. Ideally, it would be as organized and coherent as
> > the Baseplate chart
> > http://www.baseplate.com/colors/
> > with pictures like the BrickLink chart
> > http://www.bricklink.com/catalogColors.asp
> > only with uniform pictures taken by the same camera in the same lighting
> > with a neutral background, and with (perhaps hidden) translating features
> > like the Peeron chart
> > http://www.peeron.com/inv/colors
> >
> > Then, once people had agreed as to completeness and accuracy (and to
> > names, or at least how to translate names between systems) someone would
> > have to clear up exactly which colors go in which inventories, and someone
> > would have to take responsibility for maintaining the chart as TLC makes
> > ever more colors. I think it would be a very useful project for the
> > community. . .
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> Oh I agree completely. After looking at the different color pages out there
> I honestly think Bricklink is the best. That seems to be the only one that
> is constantly updated and maintained. Colors there are taken very seriously
> among the people who use it, and want to see it continue its claim as the
> most complete and comprehensive color list on the web.
>
> All of the other sites (Peeron, Ldraw, Baseplate, Henry's. mine.. etc) are
> either vastly out of date or have way few too many colors on them.
> Brickilink is the only one that is carefully looked over and tweaked on a
> daily basis almost. And Bricklink has the most in-line color names.
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> So if there was going to be a community standard, Bricklink really should be
> it. There is no one person that can keep up with all of the new and
> different colors and get examples of them like the entire community over at
> Bricklink can - and does.
We also need a standard that once a color is named something, the name
doesn't get changed. I call your medium blue light blue because at the
time, it was the lightest blue. Sure, there is a new, lighter blue in
the new Belville sets, but I would have been inclined to call that very
light blue.
There's also another blue in Belville, the blue of the 4x8 plate in
Milimy's Bedroom, and a couple other sets. It's a similar shade to sand
blue, but without as much grey (I think it does have some grey in it).
To be honest, I wish TLC would stop releasing so many colors. I think
new colors can be good, but I would rather see them introduced slowly
and methodically. I liked that several sand colors came out about the
same time for example (though we are missing sand yellow and sand
orange). I'd also like to see a larger piece variety.
I've been thinking of collecting all the colors I have together, but it
would be hard to make a permanent display since there are sure to be
some Scala or Belville colors I only have one or two pieces of. The only
color I know I don't have is Maersk Blue.
Frank
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