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"
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.
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.
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.
43 Comments
fonix232@fedia.io · 56 pts · 286d
Not the 50 shades of grey I expected.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 286d
Way weirder when used as a sex thing.
Skua@kbin.earth · 23 pts · 286d
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 9 pts · 286d
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 pts · 286d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 285d
that shade is called "wargamers"
remon@ani.social · 13 pts · 286d
Using both grey and gray in the same graphic? That should be illegal.
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 286d
get multicultured
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 285d
Grey is lighter, gray is darker
flavonol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 283d
græy
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
grey is english, gray is american.
Archpawn@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 285d
OP made the meme while on a flight across the Atlantic ocean.
glimse@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 286d
US Light grey is darker than US grey?
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 286d
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"
glimse@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 286d
I hate this but thanks
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
wasn't light grey darker than grey in 8 bit color?
Skua@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 286d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 286d
"The Green Goblin appe-"
"Hold up."
"What?"
"Why does the goblin's skin color matter?"
Darkmuch@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 286d
Green goblin - I sleep.
Faerun Verdant Forest Green goblin - REAL SHIT GOING DOWN
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
The Viridian Arthropod is casing the on
toynbee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
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 pts · 285d
I learned it from the Verdant Flammable Device in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
anonymous111@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 285d
"They're changing it from Ocean Grey to Military Grey. Something that should've been done a long time ago."
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 285d
"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?"
visc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 285d
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.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 285d
Orange his house, with the orange little window and the orange corvette
zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 285d
And everything is orange for him, and himself, and everybody around, 'cause he ain't got nobody to listen to, to listen to, to listen to....
Now that's gonna be stuck in my head
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 285d
https://youtu.be/Nr1TBOxlcAg
Archpawn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
Does that mean black and white are the same color?
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 285d
Also scientists: blue is an illusion (mostly)
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 286d
Tell the scutters to paint over the ocean grey with military grey.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
now neutral grey is military grey too.
mogoh@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 286d
OK, but Citadel's colour names are the worst.
azrendelmare@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 285d
True, but I've also seen pictures of another paint called "drow nipple pink," and that's pretty weird too, imo.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 286d
There's 31 gray dots and 33 gray names listed. How am I supposed to pick the right gray‽
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 285d
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.
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 285d
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
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 285d
If it isn't in rgb.txt, I don't even want to hear about it.
MxRemy@piefed.social · 3 pts · 286d
No eigengrau??
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 286d
No gunmetal?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 285d
salmon is too orange
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 285d
Seam Foam
Valmond@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 286d
Uh, artists use the classic pigments :-/
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org · 0 pts · 286d
I dunno, I think 'normal' people do know some shades.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 1 pts · 286d
I see they know how to throw them as well ;)
Archpawn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
I know names of shades. I don't know what exactly the difference is between teal, turquoise, cyan, and blue-green.