New Board Colours?

[bear66]

Flamingo

 

[fmttmadmin]

The logo and the colour is taken from Fly Me To The Moon fanzine - we have rarely used post box red, nearly always that red colour. It can look orangey on some devices and yes some of the writing looks orangey on some screens too. We can look at this. But there is logic to it - it is the colour taken from the fanzine.

 

[red_harrington]

compare your red to the board banner and you tell me?

Actually it looks red on my work PC and orange on the one at home

 

[asredastheycome]

Yes, I understand what you mean. It is based upon the printed fanzine colour.

Looks exactly the same as the fanzine to me and that is AOK

 

[alanmoodysdog]

The logo and the colour is taken from Fly Me To The Moon fanzine - we have rarely used post box red, nearly always that red colour. It can look orangey on some devices and yes some of the writing looks orangey on some screens too. We can look at this. But there is logic to it - it is the colour taken from the fanzine.

maybe the orange from the original fanzine many moons ago (joke) was not correct and it has just been kept the same , I would like to see a true red colour

 

[dan_ashcroft]

Not all CMYK (printed fanzine) colours can be displayed using RGB (monitor/mobile screen). Although the values may equate in theory, the real life results can vary.

It just needs tweaking a little, and one approach could be to reference a physical printed copy alongside the screen.

 

[borolad259]

I'd say it is Vermillion, which is a shade of red .... at the iron oxide end. Which might be seen as appropriate, though it's not boro kit red. Having said that, the boro kit of the early seventies ... Stan era, was a much deeper, darker red than the one we are used to now.

 

[pierrequiroule]

That's right about the Boro kit changing over the years. We will all be seeing different reds anyway as I dare say none of us are on perfectly calibrated monitors.

 

[alanmoodysdog]

still think its more orange than red and would be mystified if a Boro kit turned up in this Blackpool colour

 

[bear66]

The old fmttm is red so it appears to be fmttm fanzine colour by choice.

#f71700 old fmttm 91.4% red, 8.5% green

#f042ca new fmttm 67.% red, 21% green, 11% blue

 

[fmttmadmin]

We will look at the colours.

 

[alanmoodysdog]

nuff said.....

 

[dan_ashcroft]

We will look at the colours.

 

[fmttmadmin]

But the whole point of the colours was to match the fanzine colour - it is the fanzine website after all.

 

[alanmoodysdog]

But the whole point of the colours was to match the fanzine colour - it is the fanzine website after all.

so the fanzine was orange. Was that by design or an error? 67.% red, 21% green, 11% blue if it is to replicate the fanzine then orange it will be

 

[bear66]

The fanzine cover has changed colour over the years. It started as 'red' then seems to have moved to 'orange' in stages.

 

[dan_ashcroft]

so the fanzine was orange. Was that by design or an error? 67.% red, 21% green, 11% blue if it is to replicate the fanzine then orange it will be

There is a whole range of printed CMYK colours that cannot be reproduced on screen, and vice-versa. The itself fanzine isn’t orange.

Article - CMYK v RGB

 

[Zoophonic]

Red for me - definitely not orange

 

[alanmoodysdog]

the old site is deffo red

 

[borolad259]

the old site is deffo red

I would check your monitor ... it's no-where near Blackpool orange.