Comparison of how people perceive options for colour.  Artist vs Normal People vs Wargamers

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[–] 57 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Not the 50 shades of grey I expected.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    Using both grey and gray in the same graphic? That should be illegal.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    US Light grey is darker than US grey?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Believe it or not, but the colors are actually case sensitive. US Light is named after Uriel S. Light, a general in the US civil war. The lighter version of "US grey" would just be "US light grey"

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    "The Green Goblin appe-"

    "Hold up."

    "What?"

    "Why does the goblin's skin color matter?"

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    As a kid, I learned the word "verdant" by reading a Spider-Man novel in which Peter realized an organization was nefarious by recognizing the root "verde" in the name.

    I think that, in the story, the organization was trying to reproduce The Hulk. Hence, green.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    "They're changing it from Ocean Grey to Military Grey. Something that should've been done a long time ago."

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Tell the scutters to paint over the ocean grey with military grey.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Scientists: Brown = Orange

    In the sense that brown is a very dark orange, and “very dark” just means there isn’t much light but the colour of the light that there is, is orange.

    We are orange-haired orange-skinned people wearing orange shoes and orange leather jackets, own orange wallets, living in orange wood houses near orange and green Forrests with our orange pets.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    There's 31 gray dots and 33 gray names listed. How am I supposed to pick the right gray‽

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    OK, but Citadel's colour names are the worst.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Commercial print artists use Pantone, or some other color standard--way too many colors for names. And, names are far too inaccurate, outside of clearly defined ones in the CMYK space, such as red being 100M, 100Y, etc. Just do an image search for any color name, any one at all, and see the range of what people think, for instance, orange is. Turquoise is another one, because natural turquoise appears in many different hues.

    Paint artists use color names, I suppose. I don't know, I don't paint. But 'burnt umber' was fused into my brain by Bob Ross.

    Digital artists are stuck with RGB, HEX, or whatever, and at the whims of whichever monitor their work ends up on.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    If it isn't in rgb.txt, I don't even want to hear about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I dunno, I think 'normal' people do know some shades.

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    salmon is too orange

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Uh, artists use the classic pigments :-/

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