i want that colour!
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- paraselene
"remember when you were at school and you used to mix blue and black together? that's the colour i want."
how do your clients describe colours?
- paraselene0
"i want the colour of a biro"
*scribbles furiously
"see that?"
*points at scribbles
"that's the colour i want!"
- UndoUndo0
is that what the client said??
scan it , B&Q paint stylee
- flavorful0
Usually when I present a scheme to a client, no matter what it is they automatically say, "Perfect. Now can we have it about half that?"
Then I ask them "Do what now? Half?"
Automatic response, "You know ... half."
Then I say okay and don't touch a thing and they never notice.
- craic_whore0
Blueak or Blackue, I forget which.
- paraselene0
nah, undo i don't have it anymore. that's an old example. it's just funny.
- paraselene0
half. haha.
- UndoUndo0
there's a great site with some fantastic client quotes...but i forget the domain.
i've heard 'can we have a drop down menu on the bottom edge of the screen' before.. amongst others
:) it makes me smile everytime
- digilee0
client - "i don't know what colours i want to use"
me - "ok, can you give me some key words to describe the project"
client - "don't know really, can't you just choose some colours"
me - "colour is very personal and should .."
client - "just choose something"
... 3 hours later ...
me - "ok I'm ready to present the colour scheme that refelects the project"
10 mins pass
client - "they're all great but nothing that I want"
me - "can you explain what you like and dislike ..."
client - "oh I don't know, just choose something"
and so it goes on ...
- paraselene0
sometimes it's cute. mostly it does my bean in. the colour ones tend to be innocuous enough.
- kelpie0
was once asked after going through about, ooooh, 20 million Pantone references for a one colour job, to "just make up a new colour".
a new colour you say?
a
NEW
colour
??
- UndoUndo0
that it benedetto! class
- robotron3k0
it's usually more, "the layout looks good, but can we add some more brand colors in there" and the brand colors always something like dayglow fusia and royal blue
- foreign0
"microsoft teal, that's our brand color"
- paraselene0
what are you doing here, kelpie? don't you have some colours to invent?
- paraselene0
lol foreign!
- foreign0
lol foreign!
paraselene
(Dec 9 05, 07:15)honest, happened last week.
i can't do it.
- flavorful0
A new colour, that is priceless.