Talk:Safety orange
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What the hell is this sign and picture note? An attempt at humor, or what?!
- The sign was used in a crash test shortly after the picture was taken. I think we can afford the technicians a bit of comedic license for the advisory plate. Rsduhamel 08:03, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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- Nonono. There's a decimal point there; it's just very small. --Ihope127 15:44, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
- Anyway, I'm moving this to the right page) :-) --Ihope127 15:44, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Safety orange color
Is it just me, or does the "safety orange" color have too much green in it? I'm not an expert on color matching and whatnot, but I've seen a few road signs in my time, and they've definitely got a little more red in them. (Also, the extremely convenient 99 in the hex triplet makes it look like someone just made that up.) Anyone with more expertise have an opinion? Equalpants 08:30, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
- No, but there is a discrepancy with the hex triplets on the 'list of colours' page; I'll check it out. Also, it doesn't correlate with the "153" in the RGB box Leon... 05:25, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
- Oops...I realised it was International Orange. Sorry Leon... 05:32, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Is the color in the color box correct?
The color in the color box doesn't match the picture of the sign. Of course, that means nothing because the picture could be off. I copied the picture into MS Paint and used the color picker and got r=251, g=108, b=21 (average of eight points). Even so, the color box looks off to me where the sign looks right. So, is the color box determined by something official or is it someone's best guess? Here's the different colors for comparrison.
| Original | Matches Sign | From schneider.com | From colorpro.com (too dark) |
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If I don't hear that the original is "official" I'm going to change it. Rsduhamel 01:59, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Update
I changed the color to match that used at the Schneider National website and it looks a lot closer than the original. I also went to this site and converted the Munsell notation to RGB but the result looks way too dark. I'll keep the Schneider color until I find a better, more "official" match. Rsduhamel 21:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
