What is this colour?

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• VacuumVigilante@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dark yellow

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• dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Orange, fite me…

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  • Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Are you colourblind or a sub that likes getting belittled

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, first: this is not just one color. There are 4 or 5 different colors 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.

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• backgroundcow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  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.

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

    Made me laugh.

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• psoul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Blellow

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• Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bile

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• OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Foulingras

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• WandowsVista@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  upsetting

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• verdi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Light blue!

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• VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Army green?

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• Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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

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• flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ha is this the Pantone colour of the year?

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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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

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    • flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• hopesdead@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Olive?

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Drank Too Much Wine green

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• proudblond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Puce?

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• calmblue75@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Green. A really browny green.

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• amelia@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Booger

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• early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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• unminded@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Grocker

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• Legianus@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A hue of orange

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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  probs a light brown

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Blue of course

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• dumplingirl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Golive

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• starik@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tan

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• Outdated4134@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Brown

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• Skanky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Gushing Granny

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