Talk:18th century green
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Meaning "dark yellow". The cites I can find for "18th century green [thing]" all seem to mean "[18th century] [green] [thing]" (i.e. a thing from the 18th century which is green), not "[18th century green] [thing]" (a thing which is dark yellow). - -sche (discuss) 14:55, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- The colour in our entry looks green to me in any case, rather than a shade of yellow. I am a bit colour blind though, so I may be mistaken. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 16:29, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, borderline. I would call it olive. The hex colour code is a59344 (RRGGBB form). Equinox ◑ 16:31, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- I'd have just called it brown or yellow-brown. Accurate visual display is hard and requires display-device manufacturers and/or users to calibrate their devices periodically. We can't count on that, so ostensive definitions of colors, like our color patches, are necessarily imprecise. We can only be precise about the digital codes that are supposed to display it. DCDuring (talk) 14:42, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, borderline. I would call it olive. The hex colour code is a59344 (RRGGBB form). Equinox ◑ 16:31, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- I would also consider the colour in the entry a shade of olive green... but I can't find find uses of it as a color name at all, regardless of what color it names. For example, 2019, House Beautiful: Colors for Your Home: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Paint (Union Square + ORM, →ISBN) quotes Christopher Maya as saying "A hallway where I hang black-and-white family photographs is painted this teal green, the kind of 18th-century green you might see in a Robert Adam house in England. Look at it another way and it feels contemporary, almost Caribbean. In any event, it's so bright and cherry […] ", but the description and image are of , so even there it seems to just mean "a (blue-)green associated with the 18th century", not the yellow-green/olive color in our entry. The US National Bureau of Standards' The ISCC-NBS Method of Designating Colors and a Dictionary of Color Names, section 122 "Grayish Yellow Green", does include "18th Century Green... 1140Ygg 5-d" as a color in a list of greens, after "Dusky Green... 1148 Ygg 6-d" and "Dusty Green... 1189 Yg 5-e" and before "Elm... 1243 Ygg 6-c" and "Eucalyptus Green... 1196 Yg 6-d", which is helpful for identifying which color it is (something at least in the vein of what we have in our entry), but is only a mention. - -sche (discuss) 04:50, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
The user was adding colours from a list. Colour lists are notoriously full of rubbish (1989 Miami Hotline anyone?) so I will just call this RFV-failed This, that and the other (talk) 10:51, 19 November 2024 (UTC)