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Why is the world losing color?

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322 points trevin | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.391s | source
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JKCalhoun ◴[02 Apr 25 17:03 UTC] No.43558833[source]▶
Wow, so much to rage about from the article.

I am a huge fan of color and go out of my way to buy bright colored cars, phones, etc. (Not like I had any viable options for my MacBook Pro though).

Resale value, it hides dirt well are some of the sadder excuses I hear for buying gray and "silver" cars (wouldn't be cool if they really were silver, not "metallic gray"). Meanwhile you spend your entire time owning the car and driving around like a brooding storm cloud.

Color grading might be the most evil thing to descend on film making. It's to the point of distraction now. Like it draws attention to itself. (Watching "Mickey 17" in a theater and a scene comes on that screams "color graded!" and then it's become all I can see. Kind of like the nausea-inducing, shaky "hand held camera" thing that was so predominate some decades ago. Good riddance to that.

Oh well, I guess all I can do is to keep voting with my shopping preferences.

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cyberax ◴[02 Apr 25 17:30 UTC] No.43559121[source]▶
> I am a huge fan of color and go out of my way to buy bright colored cars

This. If you look at the cars, pretty much the only "stock" bright color is red. I used to drive a grass green car (vinyl wrap), and it stood out everywhere.

I wish car makers offered more color options by default.

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1. kulahan ◴[06 Apr 25 01:30 UTC] No.43598239[source]▶
BMW offers hundreds of colors, as do (I assume) most vendors. It’s not that they aren’t offered, so much as salesmen are simply pushing everyone towards black/white/gray because those colors are least likely to turn off a consumer. Can’t find red? Well black is very common and also looks mean!

Still, I think we’re seeing a LOT more color. From the cool khaki blue Subaru color that was so popular, to the M2 BMW in baby blue, to the Audi e-tron in purple, to the corvettes and mustangs that I rarely see in monochromatic colors.