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Re: Color Names
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.cad, lugnet.color, lugnet.lego
Date: 
Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:08:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote:
   You mentioned ‘Earth Blue’. There’s also ‘Earth Orange’ (and probably other ‘Earths’). Does ‘Earth’ have any specific meaning? Darker? More brown? Establishing a glossary of adjectives could help people navigate the color tree.

In the standard color wheel, pastels are achieved by adding white to a pure color, and earthtones are achieved by adding black, so I’m guessing the really dark colors are all termed Earth Something. The really confusing part is that I think the old Kanohi list on BIONICLE.com listed “Earth Orange” as what we would normally term “Brown”, and “Dark Orange” as one of the two very similar shades that we’ve been calling “Earth Orange”.

   I don’t care so much if (for instance) y’all decide to ‘tweak’ Purple, just let us know that it’s going to happen.

Hey! We’ll have none of that here! ;P



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  Re: Color Names
 
(...) The LSC could address this, but the LSC members aren't necessarily experts on the color palette. And it's an issue bigger than LDraw.org. So maybe a cross-organization group is called for? If we're going to talk about a 'system' for the color (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, FTX)

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