Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/24/meet-pantone-448-c-the-ugli.html
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Not orange? Really?
You had a chance, and you didn’t take it. Sad!
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So, turd brown has a Pantone designation?
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Personally I like to buy underwear in this color, that way if I’m ever in a car accident nobody will even know if my underwear is dirty.
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Goose poop green/brown
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As soon as I saw the headline, I tried to imagine what color it would be before I saw the color.
My own version was a somewhat brighter shade of exactly this color.
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This is the color of the accent wall in my bedroom.
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That is clearly blue.
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I like to think that OS/2 was killed by its default desktop colour which one co-worker of mine described as Nappy Green.
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Pantone 448 C or as I now refer to it blech.
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It’s not even the ugliest color in the 400s. 456u is far worse.
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Can you give us an example?
It’s bad, but a blue tinged dark grey does a better job of sucking all of the life and hope out of my body. This does have a pretty good nappy vibe though
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How is this post not by Rob?
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I like that olives, which are also a provably disgusting color of green-brown, are like “we want nothing to do with this color”.
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I hope this isn’t the Color Of The Year.™
Ever.
I always thought it was the Fisher-Price UI. Maybe both.
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Whenever a user logged in, OS/2 would go through this process of building the folders of applications. The icons would appear one at a time, but at the same x,y coordinate in the folder. There was no tool to lay the icons out so the user had to manually drag them around, looking for the 50th one down which he needed to launch.
This happened every time he logged in, usually at the start of the day.
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