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 Author: Graham. View Messages Posted By Graham.
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 08:43
 Subject: Dark red
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Graham. (2157)

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Please list “Dark Red” and “New Dark Red” separate.

LEGO note them as different. They are very different and mixed up in one build
don’t look good.

Thanks
 Author: BrickCompulsion View Messages Posted By BrickCompulsion
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 09:14
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In Colors, Graham. writes:
  Please list “Dark Red” and “New Dark Red” separate.

LEGO note them as different. They are very different and mixed up in one build
don’t look good.

Thanks

Using this argument then maybe the same could be suggested for yellow, and red
and white and pearl gold. While I agree that in an ideal world they would be
listed separately but where do you draw the line and with which colours ? Pearl
gold is a great example - there can be a number of shades - how do you determine
the boundaries and ensure consistencies ?
 Author: pikachu3 View Messages Posted By pikachu3
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 11:06
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In Colors, Graham. writes:
  Please list “Dark Red” and “New Dark Red” separate.

LEGO note them as different. They are very different and mixed up in one build
don’t look good.

Thanks

I wish it were that easy, but old Dark Red had a LOT of variance, and sometimes
looked like New Dark Red. And lately New Dark Red has been a bit milky some of
the time... so there's no real way to separate the two.

You could separate them into "milky dark red" and "darker dark red" perhaps,
which — apart from adding confusion — opens a can of worms when it comes to other
colors. Do we start separating all the different shades of White too?
 Author: Hygrotus View Messages Posted By Hygrotus
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 11:07
 Subject: Re: Dark red
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In Colors, pikachu3 writes:
  Do we start separating all the different shades of White too?

Or maybe black
 
 Author: mfav View Messages Posted By mfav
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 11:46
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