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| | | Author: | uticabrix  | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 08:26 | | Subject: | Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 121 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| I know this has been brought up a few times in the past. But now that LEGO
is affiliated with Bricklink, why don't that change the name colors to match
LEGO's name colors?
Ex: Light Blue Gray to Medium Stone Gray.
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| | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 09:13 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In General, uticabrix writes:
| | I know this has been brought up a few times in the past. But now that LEGO
is affiliated with Bricklink, why don't that change the name colors to match
LEGO's name colors?
Ex: Light Blue Gray to Medium Stone Gray.
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Same reason as before. Where names diverge, ours are usually more descriptive.
And we want as little disruption as necessary to members' understanding
and recognition of colors.
It would be cool, though, if Bricklink had an official matching chart and maybe
the ability to toggle the color names in options.
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| | | | | | | Author: | WhiteHorseMatt | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 09:27 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, uticabrix writes:
| | I know this has been brought up a few times in the past. But now that LEGO
is affiliated with Bricklink, why don't that change the name colors to match
LEGO's name colors?
Ex: Light Blue Gray to Medium Stone Gray.
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Same reason as before. Where names diverge, ours are usually more descriptive.
And we want as little disruption as necessary to members' understanding
and recognition of colors.
It would be cool, though, if Bricklink had an official matching chart and maybe
the ability to toggle the color names in options.
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The whole LBG/Stone grey thing is fine, but green/dark green would be way too
confusing, and I definitely don't want to start calling tan 'brick yellow'.
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| | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 09:38 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, uticabrix writes:
| | I know this has been brought up a few times in the past. But now that LEGO
is affiliated with Bricklink, why don't that change the name colors to match
LEGO's name colors?
Ex: Light Blue Gray to Medium Stone Gray.
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Same reason as before. Where names diverge, ours are usually more descriptive.
And we want as little disruption as necessary to members' understanding
and recognition of colors.
It would be cool, though, if Bricklink had an official matching chart and maybe
the ability to toggle the color names in options.
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I think there are also a couple of edge cases where BL distinguishes where TLG
does not and vice versa. So assuming there's a database table of BL colors
two additional database tables would be needed, one for TLG colors and another
to map the TLG color to the correct BL color.
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| | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 10:17 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In General, uticabrix writes:
| | I know this has been brought up a few times in the past. But now that LEGO
is affiliated with Bricklink, why don't that change the name colors to match
LEGO's name colors?
Ex: Light Blue Gray to Medium Stone Gray.
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Because of names like: Medium Yellowish Orange, Sand Yellow Metallic, New Dark
Red, Light Royal Blue, Lemon Metallic, Trans-Medium Reddish Violet, and Reddish
Lilac.
I guess we could all learn, but I have no idea what colors those are supposed
to mean. 
Because they call Purple: Lilac. They call Pink: Purple. They call Brown: Earth
Orange. etc.
I think BrickLink has tried over the years to stick with names that resemble
the basic color wheel and crayola crayons we learned in school. Neither sets
are perfect. Ours are just... more conventional.
Jen
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| | | | | Author: | Rob_and_Shelagh | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 10:37 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In General, uticabrix writes:
| | I know this has been brought up a few times in the past. But now that LEGO
is affiliated with Bricklink, why don't that change the name colors to match
LEGO's name colors?
Ex: Light Blue Gray to Medium Stone Gray.
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If I look on Lego.Com I see it is Medium Stone Grey (with an "e" as in
English) 
Robert
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| | | | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 11:06 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In General, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In General, uticabrix writes:
| | I know this has been brought up a few times in the past. But now that LEGO
is affiliated with Bricklink, why don't that change the name colors to match
LEGO's name colors?
Ex: Light Blue Gray to Medium Stone Gray.
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If I look on Lego.Com I see it is Medium Stone Grey (with an "e" as in
English)
Robert
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Oh! In that case, I change my vote. I like the e.
Jen
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| | | | | Author: | crimson30 | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 13:31 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| Just my 2 cents: I strongly prefer Bricklink color names. I would be pretty
pissed if BL went with TLG names. If TLG wants to simplify things, they should
adopt BL names, not the other way around.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 13:42 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In General, crimson30 writes:
| | Just my 2 cents: I strongly prefer Bricklink color names. I would be pretty
pissed if BL went with TLG names. If TLG wants to simplify things, they should
adopt BL names, not the other way around.
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+1 especially since lego now owns bricklink
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | pcthurman | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 13:46 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In General, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In General, crimson30 writes:
| | Just my 2 cents: I strongly prefer Bricklink color names. I would be pretty
pissed if BL went with TLG names. If TLG wants to simplify things, they should
adopt BL names, not the other way around.
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+1 especially since lego now owns bricklink
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+1 Perhaps Lego should consult with Bricklink in the future on what the "new"
color they develop should be called!
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | pcthurman | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 13:47 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | | +1 Perhaps Lego should consult with Bricklink in the future on what the "new"
color they develop should be called!
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 13:52 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| Snipity snapity this clip is now my property
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Oops! I forgot to snip.
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| | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 13:50 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | | If TLG wants to simplify things, they should adopt BL names.
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^this!!!
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| | | | | | | Author: | rylie_aitch | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 14:11 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In General, crimson30 writes:
| | If TLG wants to simplify things, they should adopt BL names, not the other way around.
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Disagree Lego's color system serves a very different purpose than BrickLink's.
One is for exactness in current development and manufacturing, while the other
is condensed to make Lego's entire history of colors understandable to the
average buyer and seller. BrickLink will never recognize colors like LIGHT BLOCK
WHITE, TRANSLUCENT WHITE, and TR. BLACK IR, and for good reason, but Lego does
need to separate them from similar colors.
BrickLink is continually playing catch-up, since it's created from incomplete
fan knowledge and assumptions in the absence of official data. I don't think
it's useful to treat a system that STILL uses Light Pink for a Belville cloth
as authoritative in any way, except for the sole purpose of buying and selling
parts on BrickLink.com.
None of that has anything to do with whether "Sand Yellow" is better
or worse than "Tan" (or "Buff" , it's just to show that aligning
the systems 1:1 in the first place is never going to be possible.
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| | | | | Author: | calebfishn | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 14:51 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| As someone with color blindness, I prefer the more descriptive colour names from
Bricklink. You should be able to identify a colour without having to study esoteric
nomenclature from Lego. By that I mean, that people who don't know lego,
do know what colour "Tan" is, but would not have a clue if you asked
them to pick the "Sand Brick Yellow" out of a pile of bricks, to give
one example. It's bad enough that we have terms like "nougat" that
don't represent anything in everyday life, let's not make it even more
confusing.
Stick with Bricklink colour conventions, please.
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| | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 15:14 | | Subject: | Re: Color Name Changes? | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In General, calebfishn writes:
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It's bad enough that we have terms like "nougat" that
don't represent anything in everyday life,
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Well, “nougat” does mean something in a lot of people’s everyday life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nougat
The problem is double:
1. It doesn’s mean anything to a lot of other people.
2. It doesn’t mean the same thing for everybody to whom it means something.
For some it’s the white ‘French’ nougat (from Persia, then Arabic countries,
Spain, France), for others it’s brownish ‘Viennese’ nougat (because it has cocoa)
or gianduja (aka Nutella’s ancestor).
What’s more funny is things like ‘Earth’ or ‘Sand’
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