beige or grey?
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- kelpie
it occurs to me that beige is the archetypal colour for "boring", and yet we as designers love grey, which is basically a desaturated beige.
So illuminate me as to why *removing* the colour from something makes it *more* boring, when surely beige is really an *augmented* and "jazzed up" version of grey?
Yours,
Perplexed of Interweb
- kelpie0
is it cultural associations? middle of the road middle class living rooms et al
- 7point340
hahaha this is entirely to intellectual a take on this
- Orbit0
I was going to start this thread but I thought I'd get loads of flack for being a troll twat, so I hope you get crucified for it now, I really do.
- trolls dont post thoughtful questions about color and design. trolls post bullshit like your post here.anxious_arms
- mistermik0
its putty darling.
- Orbit0
"Have you nothing better to do than to fill this place up with your banal attention seeking idiocy..." etc.
= D
- dropdown0
My whole house is painted different shades of grey because I couldn't commit to any colours.
- Mybookfacepage0
grey shows less dirt
- grey shows less grey dirt, but more beige dirt. Beige however shows less beige dirt, but more grey dirt.Orbit
- magnificent_ruin0
because grey is neutral, whereas beige has just enough color to hate
- beige is the horse of colors7point34
- *shaking so much right nowmagnificent_ruin
- Orbit0
"and it was all Yellow"
- mistermik0
you mean online or print?
offline - wonderful variations on "grey"
- kelpie0
fuck you for reducing everything to a question of troll or not. this is the real cancer in this place; either you are asking about "normal" safe subjects that can be directly and obviously linked to some current and standard thread of design or news, or you are a TV posting, look at her tits, drawing of a cock troll.
Just because I choose to drill further into the details and contemplate the intellectual depths of the problems inherent in the things we take to be the white noise of social normality, do not call me a fucking troll and assume that I am taking the piss
- mistermik0
you talking to me?
- dropdown0
Holy Shit I forgot about this site (until 7point34 reminded me of it in the note above ):
- odd?Mybookfacepage
- you can never forget. we must all stay vigilant7point34
- Orbit0
I'm sorry. I thought it was a troll thread. Accept the apology and lets just move on please. I know when I've done wrong and I'm man enough to admit it.
Just get back on track now please and stop victimising me.
- ok man, apology acceptedkelpie
- NOW GET YR FUCKIN SHINEBOXmagnificent_ruin
- 7point340
beige is the color of pcs
grey is the color of macs
- johndiggity0
it's all in context.
- Orbit0
Magnicifent_Runes theory doesn't hold up. If you look at a pantone warm grey 9 for instance, it is the same as a putty which is beige. So there are extremes on the spectrum of greys that are actually beiges and likewsie some muted neutral beiges will be grey.
I think the issue here is more about semantics and fashion. We are 'sold' grey this, grey that, and then next season we are sold that its not grey we wants now anywore that its actually beige.
Its like with taupe. Same thing.
- "beige" - bad cultural baggage
"warm grey" = good cultural baggagekelpie
- "beige" - bad cultural baggage