From an interesting New Yorker piece on industrial color consultants:
"Regional patterns can't always be explained by anthropology, but they exist," she went on. "Birmingham, for example, is a heavy brick market, so even the sided houses tend to be brown or brick red. It's a very dark story. You still see more colors in Birmingham than in Dallas, but the colors in Dallas are more diverse--grays, greens, yellows. Tampa has more stucco, so it skews very light. Washington, D.C., is beigeville."
Happy to learn we don't live in beigeville!
And now I also know that the funny, or funky, green chairs I recently adopted should maybe be called wasabi green, rather than lime green. Or else specified as one of fifteen different shades of lime green. I'm not sure which one. Help. I do want to be accurate.
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Heavens, not Lime...it's OUT! SUS
Dissed by my mom! Agh!
Of course, true wasabi is sort of a pale straw yellow. They add artificial green to it for the market.
More or less the same with salmon and chicken and pretty much any other food product.
when in doubt seek professional help. yeah, I tried to get something useful to post from Pantone's site, but nothing.
here's what Sherwin Williams has to say about the matter
http://www.sherwin-williams.com/do_it_yourself/
click on Launch Color Visualize and then Find Color. 1400 colors! Woo!
Pea green. -TD
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