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[–] anonymous111@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day 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?"

[–] visc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (4 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.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Orange his house, with the orange little window and the orange corvette

[–] zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Does that mean black and white are the same color?

Also scientists: blue is an illusion (mostly)

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not the 50 shades of grey I expected.

Way weirder when used as a sex thing.

[–] remon@ani.social 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 day ago

Grey is lighter, gray is darker

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

get multicultured

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

grey is english, gray is american.

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

OP made the meme while on a flight across the Atlantic ocean.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

that shade is called "wargamers"

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 points 1 day 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

salmon is too orange

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

US Light grey is darker than US grey?

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day 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"

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I hate this but thanks

wasn't light grey darker than grey in 8 bit color?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 2 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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"The Green Goblin appe-"

"Hold up."

"What?"

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

[–] Darkmuch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Green goblin - I sleep.

Faerun Verdant Forest Green goblin - REAL SHIT GOING DOWN

The Viridian Arthropod is casing the on

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 points 1 day ago

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

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

now neutral grey is military grey too.

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

No eigengrau??

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I know names of shades. I don't know what exactly the difference is between teal, turquoise, cyan, and blue-green.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see they know how to throw them as well ;)

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

and to avoid them, especially at night.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Uh, artists use the classic pigments :-/