Edit: the pic I posted has a more greenish tone, I think, but it's a photo of a book that I have physically and Coyote Brown lines up with the physical version better

RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d

That earth tone green you see on hippy stuff from the 70s and on African stuff.

netvor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d

It's called "khlute". (From now on--I made it up.)

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d

Mom would call it “baby poop” green.

I’d call it pea soup green.

Or puke green.

Depends on what the color was on and howl inoffensive I care to be.

Could also be a (darker) mustard yellow depending on the lighting

OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d

Foulingras

P1k1e@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d

Vomit green

Edit No wait! YELLOW

Pothetato@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d

It's brown-yellow so brellow

chonomaiwokurae@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 244d

It’s avocado-mustard

mrbeano@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 244d (1 reply)

Lil Pickle

motor_spirit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d

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snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 243d

Very slightly yellow brown, I guess kinda olive.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d

Horrible.

LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 244d

Jungle juice

dustyData@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d (2 replies)

Orange, fite me…

Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 244d (1 reply)

Are you colourblind or a sub that likes getting belittled

dustyData@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d

Well, first: this is not just one color. There are 4 or 5 different color blocks mixed in the picture. Which makes it hard to pinpoint a name for a single shade. Second: if you know anything about color theory, it is quite obvious that it's any combination of red and green (or yellow and magenta). In color theory this combinations both can make anything from bright orange to yellow to grapefruit red. Or, if you greatly desaturate it or charge it towards black in hue, to brown. Everyone here is calling it some form of brown as well. And it might actually be browny (the color) by the overall range of values in the picture.

As we all know, brown is just orange with context. Thus, the only technically accurate name it could be given is orange.

Blizzard@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 244d

Dark yellow

czardestructo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d

odama626@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d (1 reply)

Pea green

spykee@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 242d

I aint doing that again. Hurts like hell.

semisimian@startrek.website · 3 pts · 244d (1 reply)

Tri Repetae.

antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 243d

Ah, a man of culture! But this colour is too greenish, I think

VacuumVigilante@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d

Always called it “diarrhea green” growing up(it was popular to see in the 70s).

hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 244d

Olive yellow I'd say, or booger yellow.

psoul@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 242d

Caca d’oie (goose poop) It’s a true color name in French

hopesdead@startrek.website · 2 pts · 244d

Olive?

Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 243d

Bile

backgroundcow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 242d (1 reply)

What kind of nerds do you claim to be in this thread?! Despite being late, I see no mention of the xkcd color survey: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

As far as I can read just by eye, its "mustard" or "olive", but funnily it also seem close to the one someone annotated: "really? this color again? i have nothing against colors personally, but this one just stands out from the rest as unusually unattractive. i almost feel sad for it, but it made the decision to be that color so it has to find a way to deal with it."

But, someone, feel free to dig into the hex codes to give a more definite answer.

early_riser@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 242d

A couple dozen people embedded SQL ‘drop table’ statements in the color names. Nice try, kids.

Made me laugh.

flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 244d (3 replies)

Ha is this the Pantone colour of the year?

antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 244d

No, it's the colour of one book I own and it just struck me how I can't name or describe it.

antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 244d (1 reply)

Also now you made me go check... apparently this is Pantone's colour of the year 2025:

and this one is for 2026 (how can you select the colour of the year in advance tho?)

flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 244d

I never get that either, but I think it’s a way to control next year’s fashion.

WandowsVista@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d

upsetting

proudblond@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d

Puce?

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 244d

olive or gold, im not sure.

zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 243d

Blellow

Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 244d

This is the color they made cigarette packages in Canada, and I believe Australia some years ago, supposedly because its a gross color. Didn't stop me, neither did Barb Tarbox

VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 244d

Army green?

wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 243d

Pea soup

verdi@feddit.org · 1 pts · 244d

Light blue!

Legianus@programming.dev · 1 pts · 243d

A hue of orange

QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 243d

probs a light brown

early_riser@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 242d

I'd call it "olive".

I you'll permit me a tangent, the linguistics of the senses are something that fascinate me. Color names have been studied a fair bit, and an oft-repeated (not sure how accurate) theory states that languages acquire color names in a particular order, starting with words for dark and light, then red, then green and yellow, and so on. As a student of Latin and to a much lesser extent Greek I was interested to find out that there's no exact word for "blue" in classical Latin or Greek, hence Homer's famous "wine-dark sea".

As a blind person I'm more interested in odor vocabulary. The dominant theory until recently is that language is incapable of describing odors as qualia distinct from the sources of those odors. That is, "green" describes a particular instance of subjective experience independent of grass or bile or any other green thing, but terms for odors all stem from analogies or just the words for their sources. Earth smells "earthy", flowers smell "floral" and so on.

But some research on minority languages spoken by hunter-gatherers living in Thailand suggest that at least some languages do have "odor colors" as I call them. I desperately want a non-technical breakdown of these studies, or indeed access to the papers at all, but the details are behind pay walls.

Some of my conlangs are meant to have such odor colors based on the valence-arousal model of emotions since their speakers communicate mood through pheromones rather than body language. Their color words in contrast work like human odor words, only being able to describe color by analogy with something so colored.

dumplingirl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d

Golive

unminded@feddit.org · 1 pts · 242d

Grocker

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d

Drank Too Much Wine green

n0respect@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d

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calmblue75@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 240d

Green. A really browny green.

Siegfried@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d

Blue of course