Not the 50 shades of grey I expected.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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Way weirder when used as a sex thing.
Deeply upsetting that we have two more names than greys here and one of the greys still didn't get a name
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.
Hah, good point. "US light grey" is on there too. There's a transatlantic exhange program going on for unsaturated paint
that shade is called "wargamers"
Using both grey and gray in the same graphic? That should be illegal.
get multicultured
Grey is lighter, gray is darker
græy
grey is english, gray is american.
OP made the meme while on a flight across the Atlantic ocean.
US Light grey is darker than US grey?
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
"The Green Goblin appe-"
"Hold up."
"What?"
"Why does the goblin's skin color matter?"
Green goblin - I sleep.
Faerun Verdant Forest Green goblin - REAL SHIT GOING DOWN
The Viridian Arthropod is casing the on
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.
I learned it from the Verdant Flammable Device in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
"They're changing it from Ocean Grey to Military Grey. Something that should've been done a long time 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?"
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.
Orange his house, with the orange little window and the orange corvette
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
Also scientists: blue is an illusion (mostly)
Does that mean black and white are the same color?
There's 31 gray dots and 33 gray names listed. How am I supposed to pick the right gray‽
Tell the scutters to paint over the ocean grey with military grey.
now neutral grey is military grey too.
If it isn't in rgb.txt, I don't even want to hear about it.
No eigengrau??
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.
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
I dunno, I think 'normal' people do know some shades.
I know names of shades. I don't know what exactly the difference is between teal, turquoise, cyan, and blue-green.
salmon is too orange
Seam Foam
Uh, artists use the classic pigments :-/