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Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
ortusdux: Reminds me of Go Away Green - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Away_Green
dogscatstrees: This article is a gem, thank you. Now off to Sherwin-Williams to see what the equivalent color names are. I wonder if there are matching formula.
somat: I wonder if the designers of cold war soviet planes read the same color theory because their cockpits are always a very particular indescribable shade of green. There were also very specific colors for subsystems, yellow for fuel, purple for hydraulics etc. Much more than the contemporary US designs.
ryandrake: It's so nice to see colors in any kind of government, industrial, or commercial building. The "everything must be gray/beige" fad has dominated institutional interior design for at least 30 years. Maybe it's just nostalgia, I remember the wall colors in banks, schools, doctor's offices, mcdonalds, and so on in the 1970s and they seemed so wonderful. All these things got a coat of white paint sometime in the 2000s and look the same as everywhere else now.
ChrisMarshallNY: That’s a fascinating story!I’d never even heard of this guy.
Loughla: My father was a mechanic and crew chief working on F-14's during his time in the air force. His two takeaways from his service were: 1. No one should ever join the military for any reason ever forever, and 2. Somebody needs to color code literally anything.He talked about how the wiring schematics were a maze, made worse by using only non-labeled gray and black wires with connections and mounts that were the same color made of the same material.The exterior being gray makes sense - harder to see with human eyes. But internals? They should be massively contrasting colors for every single series of pieces to be removed so you can just follow along by color.
mlacks: On US submarines, every bulkhead and beam not in the bilge is painted seafoam green. We were told it was the most soothing/ anti-rage inducing color possible - necessary for long deployments in cramped quarters.After a little over a decade of service, no other color infuriates me more
dylan604: Go Away reads to me as a command to the viewer to go away rather than the intended "we want the object to go away from the viewer's thoughts". If they were okay with a phrase like Go Away Green, why not something like Hidden View Green, Irrelevant Green, Don't Look Here Green, etc. Some PR department would have a field day
anonu: Some of the old retired US aircraft carriers have their control rooms painted this color.
fgonzag: Silver lining, at least your triggered by a color that basically doesn't exist and is no longer in wide spread use. (As in you won't find it as much in daily civilian life)
vscode-rest: Prob because Go Away Green sounds way cooler than all of those and it’s not a user facing term anyways.
ProllyInfamous: #81D8D0 club, represent! Tiffany green is a Top10 /hn/topbar color for a reason.
ghaff: I had to get my whole house repainted after a kitchen fire. Have some black and white but also subtle green in upstairs rooms and very subtle orange everywhere else. Kept it simple but prefer it to everything being a light gray like a relative has.
saltcured: Tangentially, this reminds me of stories from my dad who got some kind of special award for having made their ship radar the best in the fleet.Sometime before that, he got a lot of flak for having neglected one of the standing rules, to label everything as you take it apart and put it back "the way you found it". He decided to break it down and put it back the way the technical documentation said it should actually go. This seems to be part of the reason his radar performed better than the others after teardown maintenance.
cmoski: Old school SCADA screens that I first saw had a similar green background.
He painted his bedroom walls red vermillion to test if it would make him go mad.
pavel_lishin: > He painted his bedroom walls red vermillion to test if it would make him go mad.And? Did it?
vintermann: I suppose that's up to us to judge
