• Skua@kbin.earth
    22·
    12 days ago

    Deeply upsetting that we have two more names than greys here and one of the greys still didn’t get a name

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      9·
      12 days ago

      Never throw a meme together in a hurry, it’s like typing a reply and hitting post before you check what you wrote.

      Euro Gray is a weird one. Given the naming conventions for gray/grey, it ought to be “grey”. Must be a US color referring to European styling.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        8·
        11 days ago

        Hah, good point. “US light grey” is on there too. There’s a transatlantic exhange program going on for unsaturated paint

  • remon@ani.social
    12·
    11 days ago

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

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      1·
      11 days ago

      Also light sea gray is darker than sea grey and medium sea grey, and light ghost gray is darker than ghost grey and dark ghost gray. OP what is going on here

  • anonymous111@lemmy.world
    7·
    11 days ago

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

    • crapwittyname@feddit.uk
      5·
      10 days ago

      "that’s the new military grey bit, there. That’s the dowdy, old, nasty ocean grey bit, there. "

      “…or was it the other way round?”

    • Darkmuch@lemmy.world
      9·
      12 days ago

      Green goblin - I sleep.

      Faerun Verdant Forest Green goblin - REAL SHIT GOING DOWN

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 days ago

      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.

      • Archpawn@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 days ago

        I learned it from the Verdant Flammable Device in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

  • visc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

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

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    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.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      3·
      11 days ago

      In game dev we seem to use HSL a lot. Apparently it’s better, but I find it hard to think about after years and years of HEX