To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.legoOpen lugnet.lego in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 LEGO Company / 1575
1574  |  1576
Subject: 
Re: Update: Universal colors - beginnings
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
Date: 
Fri, 7 May 2004 18:24:46 GMT
Viewed: 
1364 times
  
In lugnet.general, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Alfred Speredelozzi wrote:
> > I imagine that the "sand" colors will not make the list.  Not that it is
> > terribly important.  Actually, if this new grey schema is really here to
> > stay, then I would expect Lego to adjust the "sand" colors to match.  They
> > really so stand out oddly with the new greys, probably because they are
> > color variants that involve the old greys.
> 
> You think so?  In my own comparisons, I've found that there are only five opaque
> colors that really go well with dark-bley (not counting light-bley and
> light-light-bley, of course), which are black, dark-blue, sand-blue, sand-green,
> and sand-purple.  Every other color is too warm, including blue.

Of course, at some level, its a matter of opinion, so maybe I am in the
minority.  However, I have heard discussion from people who seem to be a lot
more interested in colors than I, that the sand colors were mixes of the base
color and original lt grey.  That doesn't make it true, but that is what I
heard.  Honestly, light bley doesn't look different enough to me with any other
color except old light grey.

-Alfred



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Update: Universal colors - beginnings
 
(...) If that's true, it would still mean that the three sand-colors I cited are mixes of grey and a color from the cool end of the spectrum, much like the bleys. I actually held dark-bley up against all three of those colors just to confirm that (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Update: Universal colors - beginnings
 
(...) You think so? In my own comparisons, I've found that there are only five opaque colors that really go well with dark-bley (not counting light-bley and light-light-bley, of course), which are black, dark-blue, sand-blue, sand-green, and (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

34 Messages in This Thread:






















Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR