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Why is the world losing color?

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legitster ◴[] No.43559278[source]
May I make a case for brown?

- Brown is an extremely warm color, and sucks up all of the ugly blues from unnatural light sources

- Brown pairs well with all sorts of shades and colors, just like the millennial gray and white tones

- Brown can come in all sorts of shades and vibrancies, but is not as stimulating as other colors

- Brown hides dirt, scuffs, and stains extremely well

Humans have spent most of our history being very familiar with the color brown in our natural world. I moved from a modern home (everything in white and grays) and into a 1920s brown home with brown-beige walls and all of its original brown wood accents and fixtures. And then I stuffed it with brown furniture. Not only is it beautiful and cozy, I swear that this was the first year I didn't suffer from seasonal affective disorder in a long time.

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1. kridsdale3 ◴[] No.43559840[source]
We famously had "The Brown Era" in video game art direction for a while, maybe 2005-2010. Most people claimed they hated it.
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2. legitster ◴[] No.43559942[source]
It may be called the "brown era", but it had more to do with desaturated, monochrome palettes in general (to this article's point) and muddy textures.
3. anthk ◴[] No.43566397[source]
Ironically Quake was like that in 1996, and, partially, Deus Ex.