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pablopepper
15-03-2018, 08:53 AM
Apparently this colour
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/06/21/health/21global-color/21global-color-facebookJumbo.jpg
known as "opaque couché" or Pantone 448c has been voted as the ugliest colour to ever exist. Some of you will recognise it as the colour of all cigarette packaging in Australia (a subliminal discouragement tactic).

I now desperately want to paint a guitar this colour.... weird.

pablopepper
15-03-2018, 09:01 AM
Very similar to Gibson's olive drab colour.
https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/Qb4AAOSw8CVadv7X/s-l225.jpg

enikoy
15-03-2018, 09:03 AM
Isn't this a Jazzmaster colour?

Quick google shows that Fender is all over it :-)

25459

25460

25461

dave.king1
15-03-2018, 09:30 AM
Reminds me of mashed peas that mum used to make when I was a kid.

My brother and I called it caterpillar green because this was the colour of their guts when we squashed them

Sonic Mountain
15-03-2018, 10:00 AM
Valiants came out in Deep Chartuse Metallic which is pretty similar and also my favourite Mopar colour.

I wonder how the survey was conducted.....

https://i.imgur.com/ndKm2rTl.jpg

king casey
15-03-2018, 10:30 AM
What about the Yamaha Revstar?25462

cheers, Mark.

CascadiaGuitarGeek
15-03-2018, 12:17 PM
You can get a very expensive ESP limited series guitar in that colour.

25463

Andy123
15-03-2018, 03:21 PM
Shows what I know lol.
I figured colour was like sound, and that value judgments were made contextually.

For example, if I asked you to name the ugliest note or chord, it would depend on it's contextual role (the notes/chords either side of it). I assumed it was the same with colour: That particular colour would look great with some colours but not so much with others.

Simon Barden
15-03-2018, 05:17 PM
Armies the world over seem to like that colour.

wazkelly
15-03-2018, 08:30 PM
Perfect colour for any of these kits....
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FrankenWashie
16-03-2018, 09:54 AM
Perfect colour for any of these kits....
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ROFL! I had thought the perfect colour for those kits was that other shade of green whose name i shall not speak!

wazkelly
16-03-2018, 08:31 PM
Sounds like Frankie spends too much time at the big green shed.

Nah, he meant Sea Foam Green.....some form of FrankenWashie Kryptonite?