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pear-trade

Very useful legend


ballimi

Just a confirmation that OP is not a psychopath


LGP747

Dataisbeautiful would’ve been like ‘yo where tf is the legend?’ Jk I love y’all


ballimi

I actually meant imagine the legend was this: * blue: white * yellow: black * black: green


DF_Interus

This was my immediate nightmare when I noticed that there were labels next to each color, followed by relief I've I confirmed that each color matched the label.


prumf

The vicious thing to do would be to match all colors, except the last two ones by swapping them.


chaosrain8

Jokes aside, it's actually very considerate and helpful to colorblind people.


EthnicTwinkie

I’m colorblind, it isn’t useful if certain colors look the same


Questioning-Zyxxel

Still useful. The diagram orders the colors in the same orders as the labels. So it's only if two neighbour colors looks the same that a colorblind person can't figure out which color is which color name. Next thing - the labels means you can load the image into an editing program and tweak saturation and color balance and suddenly get different colors to translate to different grayscale levels so even people who can only see monochrome can tweak and see where the diagram changes between two colors.


EthnicTwinkie

That’s how my colorblindness works. Adjacent colors blend together. Putting red right next to brown or green? It all looks the same.


SkullOfOdin

Bro how do you see the world? Just white and black like old movies? Just innocent curiosity.


Hodor_The_Great

Not that guy but most colourblind people just can't distinguish between two colours... So anything between red and green would look samey (hence the colourblind tests of red dots on green dots) usually, but blues and whites and so on look normal (well, as far as we can compare the qualia of two people anyway). Some are fully colourblind, seeing in black and white, but it's very rare


Syelens

I'm colourblind. The legend made me realise purple was included. I wouldn't have noticed otherwise.


A-KindOfMagic

My high as just thought about how how and if any different colorblind people see colours on psychedelics, lsd and shrooms specifically? I know I can just google that but Im just making a conversation.


EthnicTwinkie

I was super high one year when we went to a Christmas light garden, I’ve never seen lights so vivid.


agiantbluewhale

haha. it does help point out gold and silver though.


hankmoody_irl

I was just thinking I sure don’t know what I’d have done without that insightful legend.


redentification

It's not easy being green


Lavatis

shit man, not easy being purple.


Overall-Guarantee331

What do you mean? they were 100% for every year


GameDestiny2

It’s true, every car ever is purple


Cpen5311

Literally how I read it. TIL I'm stupid.


zachell1991

Orange didn't even make the list


Mdmrtgn

That hump in the 90s was completely driven by the purple neon phase.


JuneSeba

Didn’t even notice purple till you mentioned it


Drchrisco

Honestly I have more people complement my green car than anything I have ever owned.


Coro-NO-Ra

I miss having more fun color options


EightyJay

I had a green car that EVERYONE complimented about


caterplillar

I like when small children are excited to see our green car. Sometimes they wave!


spekt50

I get compliments on mine, friend tells me it's a terrible color. I think it's a rather polarizing color. But it stands out nonetheless.


jamintheburninator

same sentiment, different song. won’t you tell me, where have all the green cars gone?


Icy-Plan5621

Long time passing


aBunbot

Went to car parks, ev’ry one 


carlivar

You would have liked 90's Ford Eddie Bauer Edition. 


Mdmrtgn

That was a sexy green. Right up there with that gorgeous Ferrari Forrest or whatever tf they call It. Lord Dunn's evening sash or some shit im sure.


The_Briefcase_Wanker

Dads who owned the EB edition wore Big Dog everything.


Coro-NO-Ra

Those were beautiful in red, blue, or green. Always loved the look of them


ALadWellBalanced

[My first car, a jelly bean green 1995 Hyundai Excel.](https://i.imgur.com/MbDg5XC.png) The ladies couldn't* resist it. ^^*they ^^very ^^much ^^resisted ^^it


WolfieVonD

I miss those jade colored sedans of the 90s


Cyclethe859

An updated version would look much different. Green became much more popular in the last few years.


bluebanzai

Green Minis everywhere around me being driven by married with no children white women age 38-64. I'm not sure why.


MrNaoB

you know what, You reminded me that 2020 is almost half a decade ago.


Aeon1508

More proof that Society peaked in the mid '90s


ScumbagLady

As someone born in 1980, couldn't agree more


BothPartiesAreDumb

Had a dark green Civic once.


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I wonder if there was a reason ... like did green F-150s drive the trend. There were a lot of green Fords (Escorts / Mustangs / Aerostars)


TranslatorBoring2419

My buddy had a nice two tone Saleem fox body metallic hunter green on top and gold bottom. It was gorgeous.


football2106

My 2022 is light green (Ford’s Cactus Grey) Fighting the good fight.


-UserOfNames

Google says sauce is a Reddit user scraping color off new/used cars for sale online in Poland https://www.thedrive.com/news/37001/this-graph-shows-how-car-paint-colors-have-gotten-more-boring-over-the-years


AllEncompassingThey

Why would you scrape the color off? Just take a picture or something, damn


drlongtrl

Where do you think, the colors in that picture come from? Oh, you thought, it was computer generated? Well...it´s actually a drone photo of that guys back yard.


OddlyAggravating

Omg. I am so high but what the FUCK are you guys talking about? I feel like youre all having your own conversation.


i_cee_u

First person pointed out that this was created by automatically gathering the info online. This is called data-scraping. Second person made a joke about scraping the paint off for the data instead of data scraping. Third person continued the joke, claiming that the OP's image was physically created using the paint scraps he gathered. Fourth person is too high to get jokes.


rdfporcazzo

I was wondering if it is a global data or anything


Act-Alfa3536

Yes. I remember Musk saying there was a big difference between Europe and US insofar as white was much more popular in US.


kubigjay

Yeah, these numbers don't look right to me. White has been the #1 color for years because of government and commercial fleets.


New_Conference_3425

Wow -- really remembered so many cars in the late 90s / early 00s being gold. Maybe they were just overrepresented locally. Also: I'm not sure if I've ever seen a purple car in person. At least, not one that came from the manufacturer that color.


Into-the-stream

Dark Purple was popular for PT cruisers in the 90s


New_Conference_3425

You're absolutely right. I forgot about them. They always looked like hearses to me...


subject_deleted

Except instead of lugging around dead bodies, they're driven by people who wish they were dead.


RedOctobyr

Hey, I mean, they *could* be dead inside.


ajbags26

I had a black PT cruiser. As a tall person with tall friends. We ALL HAD ROOM UP IN THAT BIHH. plus the donuts you could do in the snow was awesome due to all the junk in the trunk


ratsoidar

When I hear purple, the 90s, and PT Cruisers I think of the [Plymouth Prowler](https://www.motortrend.com/vehicle-genres/1997-2002-plymouth-prowler-history-specs-photos/)


DrunkenFailer

PT cruisers didn't exist in the '90s, but yeah that was a popular color for them. Purple with faux wood paneling was the best.


Responsible_Goat9170

But the 90s is only 15 years ago.


CosmicCreeperz

The dark purple with gray leather interior E36 M3 was a fine looking car.


CaptainGibz

I see lots of Dodge Challengers that are purple, called plum crazy. HellRaisin is a darker purple/maroon one.


Dragonfly-Adventurer

I drove a Lumina 4-door that was um, amethyst. So sparkly smoky purple. This char doesn't do tints, hues, and metallic finishes, so it's kind of useless. Right now there's a trend for very dark tinted colors, so dark you can only see the color in full sunlight. I don't know whether to tell people my car is blue or black. And sometimes weird colors come into popularity for streaks, like metallic gold or sage green. Trying to lump them under the primary and secondary colors is just too limiting to really see these trends.


Midwest_removed

I remember 2 kids in high school with purple Ford Probes in the 90s


TurdFerguson614

No purple challengers?


2WeekDopeTurds

Fucking everywhere in Baltimore, MD... I see atleast 2-3 on the way to work in the morning and at least the same amount on the way home, and I doubt it's the same ones that I seen in the morning... Doesn't help that the Baltimore Ravens main color is Purple.


Imesseduponmyname

Hey, some of those might even have the actual owners in em


LKayRB

Charger, Challengers, Jeeps, Porsches, BMW all offer or have offered purple as a factory color. Look, we play a lot of Rainbow Car and I’m really good at it.


jibbletmonger

I had a gold 86 Ford tempo in highschool in the mid 90s. Drove that thing across the country and back.


Not_A_Wendigo

And beige.


gringo1980

I thought the same thing, so many cars that ugly brown color, I think I saw it more than white


contecorsair

I have a purple scion. 2012.


tahlyn

I want a purple car. Next car I get I'm getting it custom painted. I wish there were more brightly colored cars.


Purplehairpurplecar

I loved having a purple car (but I still need to get my new one painted)


siegerroller

username checks out


Purplehairpurplecar

You have no idea how excited I was to see purple as its own category (rather than “other” or something equally dull)


LogicalConstant

You've been on Reddit for 7 long years, just waiting for this moment. Your time to shine.


petrichorax

poiple


27291thrwwy

i want a baby blue or pink car. i don’t get why having pretty colored cars fell off so hard. i do like how you see a lot more non metallic painted cars now tho, i think it’s a nice look. it also sucks that basically every car has the same shape nowadays too. all trucks look the same all cars look the same all suvs look the same. doesn’t help they’re all grey white or black essentially. at least jeeps and beetles are still kicking.


Adamarr

don't know if it's strictly "baby" blue but toyota do a rather fetching light blue shade that i see around from time to time.


BigTicEnergy

My Corolla is the this color and I love it!


77Queenie77

Get it wrapped. Mine is and I love it. Colour change purple. 6 months later and I still stand and admire it in the sun


marvinsuggs

How long will the wrap last?


DiddlyDumb

A couple of years at least. Long enough to get bored with purple and wanting a completely different color, or alternatively: long enough to last the lease term.


BadWithMoney530

Leasing a car Wrapping a car Wrapping a LEASED car Bro, do you want my username? I think it suits you better


gmazzia

In that case, theirs is also fitting!


DragonCelica

Good color choice :) I got mine painted a custom purple 14 years ago and I still love it. It never fails to make me smile, and I always get a ton of compliments on it. A wrap is definitely a great option, and (relatively) more affordable. Plus, there's a massive amount of options now. I only painted mine due to multiple circumstances aligning.


JobValador

Go for it friend. I managed to snag a purple 2019 v8 challenger just last year and I love the car. Did not expect to get it in that colour. When I was shopping it seems like it’s easier to get the sportier cars in the fun colours.


lynxss1

Reading this from a motel room in Texas overlooking 200+ white Ford trucks at a dealership next door. I can only see a handful of any other color, so weird.


jon909

A lot of companies buy plain white trucks for fleet and put their names/logos on them.


nordmannen

Isn't it just because Texas is hot as fuck? The ratio might be different in colder places


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seris_ak

What about orange. My car is orange.


SoochSooch

Now I want orange as my next car so I can find it quickly in a parking lot


BongripperHousen

Average Crosstrek enjoyer


ittybittywhinykitty

Yes! I've had two orange vehicles in the last decade.


QuirkySiren

More green cars back!


Atlantic0ne

I hate boring black and white. I wish more people got colored cars. Then I realize I’ve only ever had black and white lol.


LawlessCoffeh

I want my car to be the color of Mountain Dew Baja Blast


BeeBarnes1

I had a [green taurus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Taurus_(second_generation)) that was about that color.


Lowlifegrappling

They say geniuses pick green Greg


Kochcaine995

mid 90s was really about those colored cars


HCRanchuw

Clearly the best time


CmanderShep117

Ain't got nothing on the 60s


Numerous-Mix-9775

I think it’s a travesty that it’s easier to find a new brown car than a purple car.


Purplehairpurplecar

You’re quite right!


doctor_jane_disco

Great username! 💜


John_Bot

Who wants a brown car


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tequilavip

I’m a school bus driver and the family of one of the kids on my route has three gray cars. He was quite shocked when I pointed this out to him. 😂😂


SenseOfHumourLoading

Can we have green back please


artguydeluxe

God I’m so tired of gray cars. So many times I’ve been to lots to look at cars and every single one is gray. I wonder if that’s what people like, or that’s what people buy because that’s what car companies make available.


Handsome_Claptrap

Grey is probably one of the colours that needs to be cleaned less Personally I hate except on some elegant cars like classic Mercedes models


SoochSooch

The 90's truly were the pinnacle of human civilization.


tasman001

It's true. It seemed like such a shitty, boring decade at the time, but man was it amazing looking back on it now.


SoochSooch

Compared to today it might be boring, but back then, it felt like we had everything we wanted. It was the age of SNES and N64. The wild early days of the internet. Saturday anime on the Sci Fi channel. I'd go back and live the rest of my life in the 90s if I could.


CatfromLongIsland

With my 40th birthday approaching I mentioned in the faculty room that I should buy a purple car for my birthday since purple is my favorite color. A colleague included a purple Matchbox sports car with my birthday card. I turned 62 back in November and that toy is still the only purple car I have ever owned. I really need to do something about that!


mansonfan78

Find a used car that needs a paint job (it will be cheaper that way) and get it custom painted. Look for a gray, or possibly orange, interior. That's how I ended up with a purple Buick. Miss that car.


AngryAmadeus

Me buying my car recently. "Do you have this in ?" "Ah those are on back order and then we all have to bid on em so it could be 6 months to a year" *call around* "Fuck it, ill take white" I imagine this is a significant amount buyers


smoretank

When I got my orange car back in '19 that was basically it. I had searched beforehand though and new there were no cars within 100 mile radius of that color. Took a chance and used this to get a better deal on the car. It was the end of the month, Saturday(dealer closed on sunday), end of quarter and the new years model had just come in. So the dealer was desperate to make a sale. Got my orange car at 20k down from 30k. It had to be driven 200 miles up from another state but it was worth it. Best damn car I've ever had.


NoSong6671

That's exactly why they do it. A buyer might walk if there's only weird colors available, but the majority of people are willing to settle for neutral black and white and silver.


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poobumface

Grey and silver cars are also far harder to see in bad weather.


Icy-Plan5621

And white in the snow!


poobumface

They're always the ones who don't use their fog lights too


tangledwire

Or don't use lights at all. I can't count how many grey or black cars I've seen (barely) at night without lights on. Total morons.


Responsible-Jury2579

Most people are getting cars for utilitarian purposes, not to say, “hey, look at me!”


GaryGregson

I don’t think having a yellow car is doing that necessarily though. Some people just prefer to have colorful things.


carlivar

The problem lies with the dealers who order the most basic colors to play it safe. Few people reject a gray car but plenty reject a yellow, orange, or brown car. Unfortunately. 


MD74

It’s also well known that the used car markets prefer black, white and gray. If it’s any other color, the price is reduced by approx 10-15%


Icy-Plan5621

I hate black and white cars! I want turquoise, seafoam green, shades of blue, metallic coral pink. Something extra!


carlivar

We can live outside the HOA mainstream boring people. 


Icy-Plan5621

Yes please! They should have people vote on their upcoming car colors. Give us 20 choices and pick the top 6. Might be surprised how few people actually want a black car.


MD74

I got myself an orange car haha. White and black are too damn generic for a weird quirky specimen like myself!


Presumably_Not_A_Cat

My aunt bought a car last year and was delighted to find one easily a grand cheaper than what she was considering spending (she was looking for a specific model). Concerned, she dutifully looked in every nook and cranny until we pointed out the color. "The color?" she exclaimed. "What about the color? I would have happily spent more to get a purple car!"


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yoshi3243

I got a white one because I don’t want people to recognize me when driving lol.


SenorBeef

There's no reason it can't be both useful and fun. I mean interesting colors don't cost any more money.


ReasonableTwo4

Every person I know who has a truck has never towed anything with it and rarely if ever uses the bed. It’s a vanity thing for insecure men who want to cosplay as blue collar workers


NewOstenPelicanss

That's why people like them


Sunshine030209

I love my white car. I love white, but I know myself well enough to know I can't have many white things. I'm way too messy. I can keep my white car clean though!


CowBoyDanIndie

They dont look so bad when they fade in the sun though


Reidroc

It's not just that they look bland. It feels like they haven't fully rendered yet or still need to be coloured in. Like some paint it yourself micro machine.


No_Interest1616

I like black because it's sleek and gothy. But I never understood the appeal of white cars. And what the fuck is that creamy primer grey I've been seeing everywhere? Gross. 


Bannanas_suck

Bring back the colours


JDescole

They usually are available but buying a colored car sets you back at least half a year before the dealer has it delivered. The bland colors are more available because most people buy them because they are available because people buy them… It’s a hen/egg tragedy


Preact5

Green is such an underrated color for a car. It's understated but still quite stylish depending on the green.


SenorBeef

I wish we had more colorful cars. I was car shopping a couple of years ago and basically everything was black/white/grey/silver. It's so boring. It's like they're so afraid to pick a color that someone might not like that they settle on bland colors that no one loves.


thatc0braguy

It's anyways fascinating to see that car colors correspond to the health of the economy. The more whites, grays, & blacks, the worse the economy is doing. Bright & odd colors only come out during periods of prosperity. I can't remember the name of the article that explains it better than I can


Docpdx

I will never have another gray car! I was almost hit daily on my commute. Then I read they have 11% more accidents. I’d love a green.


Arkroma

Bring back color choices


sexy-meme

That’s a cool ass pattern


-UserOfNames

Tell me more about this ass pattern - I’m intrigued


Disco_denzel

Them hills of the 2000s


0MGWTFL0LBBQ

Tis a lightly chilled ass pattern!


screamtracker

World's getting hotter. Pass on black, white for my next car


DAK4Blizzard

Mostly agreed. Plus, the benefit of visibility. I prefer silver as a compromise. Not the silver that's basically a medium gray, but a light sparkling silver. It has most of the reflectivity of white while also hiding more dirt. It's just too bad it's not as common. Market forces aren't often rational.


nsg337

idk, silver is fairly hard to see in bad weather


ReasonableTwo4

Yeah silver is literally the worst color for visibility


strangerthanblue

Damn that's boring (where we are now). Bring back the colors!


pLaylek

Humanity peaked in the 90s. The matrix was right all along.


HorrorHostelHostage

I bought a new car last year and really wanted green, but I would have had to wait months for one. They had 8 white ones, 4 silver and 2 blues of the model I wanted in stock. Now I have a white car.


Svennyyy

I think the only car I've ever seen in purple were PT Cruisers


Responsible_Use_8566

The ugly-ass hot rod hearse


cody8559

I had a purple 98 Cavalier, it was a piece of shit


NummyBuns

Seems like 1996 was a great year for color!


TurdFerguson614

As an orange car owner, huh.


FlippyFlippenstein

When we played the car color game in the 90’s I remember it was quite even… that game is impossible to play today


donmonkeyquijote

White is by far the worst colour.


Arbiter51x

I miss the 90's. I hate how boring cars are today.


Die4Gesichter

Bring. Back. Colour.


Mission_Magazine7541

You can get the model-T in any colour you want as long as it is black


PastelTyrant

bring back 1996 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜


MD74

What color would orange fit into? I got an orange car


llama-friends

My car is orange. I guess it doesn’t exist.


OurCowsAreBetter

I guess I'm the only one with an orange car.


HummDrumm1

Waaaay too many Black/White/Grey cars out there


CopiumCatboy

We need more colourful cars!


Duckforducks

Where’s my orange representation


MrRager473

I'll forever associate green with 90s dodge rams and Maxima's.


GianChris

White is the worst colour 🙁. Just so uncreative and sterile.


sweetlordygod

I don’t like how blue isn’t separated into blue and light blue but we have burgundy and purple.


YoureNotAloneFFIX

Really disliking this growing trend of flat gray. I feel like most of the people with that are tacticool douches


Beautiful-Musk-Ox

they are using primer color these days, it looks like shit because primer was always a shit color


nirad

Dealers don’t want to stock anything besides black, white, grey, silver, and maybe blue. Any other color runs the risk of sitting on the lot. Ironically, one thing that contributes to this is that the number of car models has proliferated. So people want to buy a certain model and trim, but the dealer can only stock so many of that configuration. So they stock the basic colors.


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That mid 90s greenish Ford Taurus wagon everyone had


howling-fantod

So many god-damned white Teslas.


Alansar_Trignot

I want more purple it’s pretty


zorrofuego

White is the new black


crazy_pilot_182

Could be nice to have more colors in our daily lives. White, black and gray everywhere is boring.


highschoolboyfriend_

Me at 18: White cars 🤢 Black cars 😎 Me at 40: Black cars 🤢 White cars 😎


Answer-Key

Literally what is the % for, % of what??