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Mine is black.

Before anyone starts, I don’t wanna hear it, black is a color!

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[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Some manner of Hatsune Miku esque blue green/cyan/teal.

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Black is pretty awesome. Especially Vantablack.

[–] dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 5 days ago

Blue. No…yellow.

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago

I'll give you my three favorites:

  • Cosmic latte (#FFF8E7 or 42°, 9%, 100%)
  • Eigengrau (#16161D or 240°, 24.1, 11.4)
  • OLO (#00FFCC or 168°, 100, 100)

Now, all of these given values are approximations of colors that are either difficult or impossible to truly measure or portray on screen, but... They also happen to look SWEEEET together in a palette!

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

That deep, metallic red that Mazda uses to paint their cars. So gorgeous. Especially as nail polish. Hubba hubba.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Teal.

And the sad thing is that there's apparently no name for it in my language (Portuguese). I have to say "green-ish blue" or "blue-ish green".

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Fellow teal lover. Personally, I like the darker shades of it with a stronger tendency towards blue then green.

[–] omigibson@aggregatet.org 5 points 4 days ago

Green. It’s beautiful!

[–] RT69@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

More specific: Cerulean Blue

[–] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Puce (#CC8899) because it's fun to say

[–] Up_dog@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

Sounds like a fancy way of saying p*ssy

Pooo’sé

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I like Silver. People used to tell me "that's not a colour" when I said this as a kid, and I think they have a point since the character of it has more to do with shinyness and reflective qualities, but nevertheless it feels like a distinct colour in my mind and it's my favourite.

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago

Its all the colors from a pigment perspective and is none the colors from a light perspective. But unfortunately no its a shade since you can't mix another color with black and get a different color. Just a darker version of that color. Oh and brown is not a color as well. Since its orange that has been darkened.

[–] nullify3112@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I think that a color needs a context for me to pick it. I don’t want my oven to be green. I don’t want my hair to be khaki. I like certain items or textures in certain colors. Any color looks awful as a giant uniform rectangle on a screen. I don’t have a favorite color period, it all depends. Color of what? Color for what?

[–] Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Purple is a great colour. It's rich, royal and feels expensive... That's why it was my favourite for a long time .... But then I realized that Green is the middle of our visual spectrum. Midway between red and Violet/purple. Our eyes actually evolved to center on green and everything else was an outlier. It's really mother naturey and that makes sense to me.

I like both Purple/Violet and Green but for different reasons

[–] FRYD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

Yellow and lavender

[–] Squidiey@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

White. (The natrual color not the ethnicity/race)

[–] KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago
[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago
[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

Yellow, has been since I was a kid.

[–] OhmRunner01@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

mine is blue

[–] futurefossil@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Orange probably because it's also the best tasting color

[–] SydBa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago
[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

British Racing Green

[–] bluesquid0741b@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago
[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do people actually have consistent favourite colours? I've never really understood the question because for me it really depends on how the colour is being used and in what circumstance

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

It's not a general color for everything, it's more like a default color for things that could work with any color. Something you may use as the accent color on your phone, for example, if you go to the trouble of customizing that. Or even the protection cover for your phone itself.

Basically, some color that you find visually pleasing by itself and wouldn't mind using anywhere as long as it doesn't feel out of place.

[–] jaygray91@piefed.zip 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Orange and purple. yes that's pretty Halloween-ey but that's not the reason.

that deep regal royal purple is just so nice. and I just like a lot of shade of orange for vibrancy

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago
[–] firn@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

seafoam is pretty

[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 2 points 5 days ago
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

pastel lavender purple