What is this colour?
from antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 21:25
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/59738313

And I mean for real, not the hex code.

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ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 21:29 next collapse

Mustard yellow?

HeyJoe@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 21:30 next collapse

Looks like theres a site you can use to get color names. It says its called Browny Green

colors.artyclick.com/…/browny-green-color

lemmyman@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 22:54 collapse

Lol cmon did mitch hedberg name that?

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works on 16 Dec 21:30 next collapse

Taupe

Username@lemmy.nz on 17 Dec 03:51 collapse

I’m surprised how far down I had to scroll to find this as an answer!

dustyData@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 21:32 next collapse

Orange, fite me…

Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com on 17 Dec 08:34 collapse

Are you colourblind or a sub that likes getting belittled

dustyData@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 12:13 collapse

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.

WolfLink@sh.itjust.works on 16 Dec 21:32 next collapse

Garbage

zz31da@piefed.social on 16 Dec 21:34 next collapse

Pukey jade

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 21:35 next collapse

Mouse’s breath

antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 23:09 collapse

Lol, is that an actual colour? I’m googling and the results are “mouse’s back”, although that one’s too gray IMO…

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Dec 01:15 next collapse

Farrow and Ball are renowned for having bullshit pijo names for their paints, I just mixed elephants breath and mouse’s back

meekah@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 14:59 collapse

What is an “actual” color?

FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works on 16 Dec 21:42 next collapse

Chartreuse

Blizzard@lemmy.zip on 16 Dec 21:46 next collapse

Dark yellow

DrDystopia@lemy.lol on 16 Dec 21:46 next collapse

That’s not a color. That’s at least three different colours.

GreyShuck@feddit.uk on 16 Dec 21:51 next collapse

Dark Mustard

antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 23:18 next collapse

This one seems to be the closest, unironically. Now my curiosity is satisfied and my soul at peace.

FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 23:20 collapse

Mustard IN the dark

Randomgal@lemmy.ca on 16 Dec 22:03 next collapse

Pale brown with a green tint.

Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf on 16 Dec 22:08 next collapse

Ochre.

paranoidcyborg@sh.itjust.works on 16 Dec 22:23 next collapse

Yup, maybe a dash muddier but the scenic tints basically look like that.

SorteKanin@feddit.dk on 17 Dec 10:50 next collapse

I would say no, ochre would have more of a red or orange-y tint.

paraplu@piefed.social on 17 Dec 21:22 collapse

Yellow ochre gives a similar result, but is missing the blue tones that make slightly green

proudblond@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 22:12 next collapse

Puce?

MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net on 16 Dec 22:12 next collapse

Regurgitated olive.

RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 22:14 next collapse

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

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 22:17 next collapse

Shit yellow

BreadOven@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 22:18 next collapse

Baby puke.

bitjunkie@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 22:24 next collapse

Drank Too Much Wine green

rmuk@feddit.uk on 16 Dec 22:26 next collapse

Chip Shop Curry

sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Dec 22:26 next collapse

Mustard, you fuck

hopesdead@startrek.website on 16 Dec 22:27 next collapse

Olive?

flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com on 16 Dec 22:28 next collapse

Ha is this the Pantone colour of the year?

antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 23:11 next collapse

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 on 16 Dec 23:20 collapse

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

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/ec7045ad-53b1-4f86-b545-9aecc515d62d.webp">

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

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/6e7ed7ee-3cb8-42aa-8cb4-519135ddf1c2.webp">

flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com on 17 Dec 09:48 collapse

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

VacuumVigilante@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 22:30 next collapse

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

Pothetato@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 22:30 next collapse

It’s brown-yellow so brellow

BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 22:32 next collapse

Musturd

Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 22:32 next collapse

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

jahayk@sh.itjust.works on 16 Dec 22:36 next collapse

Shitreuse

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com on 16 Dec 23:45 collapse

Or shartreuse

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 22:38 next collapse

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

Mothra@mander.xyz on 16 Dec 22:46 next collapse

Too yellow to be olive green, too green to be proper mustard yellow.

Olive yellow or green mustard, your choice

LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works on 16 Dec 22:54 next collapse

Jungle juice

Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz on 16 Dec 22:56 next collapse

shart

DarkCloud@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 23:03 next collapse

Slightly darkened yellowy brown.

netvor@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 23:08 next collapse

It’s called “khlute”. (From now on–I made it up.)

mrbeano@lemmy.zip on 16 Dec 23:09 next collapse

Lil Pickle

motor_spirit@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 00:22 collapse

the color, not the rapper

Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Dec 23:14 next collapse

FDE? Maybe Coyote Brown depending on saturation/contrast?

antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 23:22 collapse

Coyote Brown seems closer

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

eatham@aussie.zone on 16 Dec 23:37 next collapse

Dark yellow

thesohoriots@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 23:39 next collapse

Splunge.

Diddlydee@feddit.uk on 17 Dec 00:00 next collapse

Baby poo brown

subignition@fedia.io on 17 Dec 00:17 next collapse

I could see calling that leaf green or olive

ace_garp@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 00:44 next collapse

Baby-shit green.

korendian@lemmy.zip on 17 Dec 10:35 collapse

Scrolled way too far to see this

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone on 17 Dec 11:58 collapse

Didn’t scroll far enough for the truth.

Skanky@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 02:07 next collapse

Gushing Granny

PhAzE@lemmy.ca on 17 Dec 02:33 next collapse

Disgusting

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca on 17 Dec 02:48 next collapse

I call it Captain Kirk’s Shirt.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/346d0339-1dda-4ce2-bf53-fa8935b8c965.jpeg">

Small_Quasar@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 10:29 collapse

Command Yellow

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone on 17 Dec 03:23 next collapse

French mustard.

ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Dec 03:39 next collapse

Dark Yellow, brass, tkinter Gold4

Hylactor@sopuli.xyz on 17 Dec 04:17 next collapse

Olive drab?

Outdated4134@lemmy.zip on 17 Dec 04:21 next collapse

Brown

starik@lemmy.zip on 17 Dec 05:08 next collapse

Tan

VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Dec 05:33 next collapse

Army green?

hardcoreufo@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 06:42 next collapse

1970 called and it wants its color back.

MarieMarion@literature.cafe on 17 Dec 07:01 next collapse

In French, caca d’oie - “goose poo”.

radiouser@crazypeople.online on 17 Dec 08:04 next collapse

olive green?

mech@feddit.org on 17 Dec 08:05 next collapse

The “darker yellow” in Windows 3.11

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 17 Dec 08:14 next collapse

olive green, or dijon mustard

hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Dec 08:51 next collapse

Olive yellow I’d say, or booger yellow.

verdi@feddit.org on 17 Dec 10:16 next collapse

Light blue!

chonomaiwokurae@sopuli.xyz on 17 Dec 10:51 next collapse

It’s avocado-mustard

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Dec 11:51 next collapse

olive or gold, im not sure.

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone on 17 Dec 11:57 next collapse

Strange poo

Anon_12345@lemmy.zip on 17 Dec 12:20 next collapse

Dark yellow olive tone (#7B690B)

Fokeu@lemmy.zip on 17 Dec 12:42 next collapse

Diarrhea brown

WandowsVista@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 12:59 next collapse

upsetting

_stranger_@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 13:04 next collapse

I saw this color on a Jeep once. 🤮

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club on 17 Dec 13:11 collapse

Before or after the “🤮”?
Prob both …

NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net on 17 Dec 14:03 next collapse

It’s the lighter shade of depression brown the UK covered all tobacco products with.

Dehydrated bile green?

cholesterol@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 14:18 next collapse

The United States Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) flirts with it.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/80210a47-8547-46d0-8856-cfa39adcdf7b.png">

semisimian@startrek.website on 17 Dec 14:34 next collapse

Tri Repetae.

antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Dec 20:06 collapse

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

dumplingirl@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 17:07 next collapse

Golive

Treczoks@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 19:24 next collapse

Horrible.

MehBlah@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 19:35 next collapse

Last squirt diarrhea.

OldChicoAle@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 19:36 next collapse

Foulingras

Siegfried@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 20:37 next collapse

Blue of course

P1k1e@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 22:08 collapse

Vomit green

Edit No wait! YELLOW