Comments on: LEGO releases its internal color palette [News]

By: spudart

spudart — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:08:16 +0000

Do you think that when the LEGO product people are sitting down to figure out colors that they have a Pantone book in hand? There’s gotta be a way of them picking new colors.

Or maybe they set up a color grid in a program online, and then they just print out the colors. Then they look at that printout and tell their manufacturers to match the printout?

I’d like to think they use something more consistent like a Pantone book.

By: Graeme Allen

Graeme Allen — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:47:31 +0000

This will be useful for my CGI mini-figure. Thanks for posting this, Nannan.

By: Ryan H.

Ryan H. — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:18:45 +0000

This page is useful for matching Lego’s names with the more common names: http://www.peeron.com/inv/colors

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:26:40 +0000

@Puddleglum: Ah, the perils of the ^ character when there may be as-yet-unmoderated comments. :-P

By: Luke Chapman

Luke Chapman — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:52:11 +0000

is 312 not what we all know and love as dark tan?

By: Puddleglum

Puddleglum — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:16:10 +0000

I meant to say the “exact same thing” about the RGB value comment, not the mustard.

By: Newillmeister

Newillmeister — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:11:57 +0000

Which one is bley?

By: worker201

worker201 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:55:11 +0000

Guys, your monitors produce their own light, while Lego bricks reflect light. I wouldn’t expect any of them to look the same on screen as they do in real life. Printing the color table may give better results.

By: Puddleglum

Puddleglum — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:19:04 +0000

^I thought the exact same thing. Also, can’t help but wonder if #312 (Medium Nougat) is the color in the new Prince of Persia sets.

By: F_T_K

F_T_K — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:12:32 +0000

It would be nice if they updated their online Pick-a-Brick to match these color names, too. I’m getting tired of searching for ‘dark green’, and only seeing the pieces that are available in ‘bright green’.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:08:41 +0000

Man I must need to calibrate my monitor. Yellow looks like mustard compared to the yellow lego piece I hold up next to the monitor

By: worker201

worker201 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:17:32 +0000

Official CMYK or RGB values would be nice as well…