# Quick, from memory: can you name the colors of the Google letters in order? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-from-memory-can-you-name-the-colors-of-the-google-letters-in-order/589887 "2011-07-21T17:59:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-from-memory-can-you-name-the-colors-of-the-google-letters-in-order/589887/21 "2011-07-23T21:40:08Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Yes, but I might have an advantage over others as I have google set as my homepage both at home and work. > > It is: > > blue, red, yellow, blue, green red > > I wonder if the colors have any actual meaning. Wikpedia says “We ended up with the primary colors, but instead of having the pattern go in order, we put a secondary color on the L, which brought back the idea that Google doesn’t follow the rules.” I dunno on the orange/yellow debate. Using GIMP to check the hue value, I get 41, which is closer to “orange” than “yellow”. Finally, an excuse to break out that “macaroni and cheese” crayon! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-from-memory-can-you-name-the-colors-of-the-google-letters-in-order/589887/22 "2011-07-23T21:54:12Z")
> [@chaoticbear](#): > > I dunno on the orange/yellow debate. Using GIMP to check the hue value, I get 41, which is closer to “orange” than “yellow”. Finally, an excuse to break out that “macaroni and cheese” crayon! 😃 Depends what part of the letter you are sampling from. It has varying degrees of specularity, as all the letters are shaded. Although there are orange-ish hues in it, I interpret that as a result of the shading and the original letter as basically yellow. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-from-memory-can-you-name-the-colors-of-the-google-letters-in-order/589887/23 "2011-07-23T22:14:15Z")
I just checked again, and while I can see a very small amount of yellow in the “o”, it is overall much more orange than yellow. And my monitor settings seem fine as I can see yellow elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-from-memory-can-you-name-the-colors-of-the-google-letters-in-order/589887/24 "2011-07-23T22:52:03Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > I just checked again, and while I can see a very small amount of yellow in the “o”, it is overall much more orange than yellow. And my monitor settings seem fine as I can see yellow elsewhere. Well as **chaoticbear** ’s quote above proves, Google themselves consider it yellow since orange is not a primary color. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-from-memory-can-you-name-the-colors-of-the-google-letters-in-order/589887/25 "2011-07-23T22:58:06Z")
I think the “l” is green. That’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-from-memory-can-you-name-the-colors-of-the-google-letters-in-order/589887/26 "2011-07-24T00:54:25Z")
If I go to Google images and google “Google” I see plenty of their logos with a clearly yellow second “o” and it looks quite familiar to me, but it is not even close to the clearly orange letter on their actual page that I bring up. Again, anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-from-memory-can-you-name-the-colors-of-the-google-letters-in-order/589887/27 "2011-07-24T01:57:02Z")
From memory: colors? there are colors? ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-from-memory-can-you-name-the-colors-of-the-google-letters-in-order/589887/28 "2011-07-24T03:10:21Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Depends what part of the letter you are sampling from. It has varying degrees of specularity, as all the letters are shaded. Although there are orange-ish hues in it, I interpret that as a result of the shading and the original letter as basically yellow. I dunno. I took 5 or 6 samples from around various parts of the letter, and although the other values changed, the hue stayed constant. ::shrug:: The same wikipedia article also mentions an update of the logo in 2010, updating the color as well. You can compare it to the original on the same page. It is indeed orang_er_, but i don’t know if we can objectively call it one or the other. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-from-memory-can-you-name-the-colors-of-the-google-letters-in-order/589887/29 "2011-07-24T03:15:12Z")
Let’s just agree on yellow-orange, then, okay? I think I have a crayon that color. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-from-memory-can-you-name-the-colors-of-the-google-letters-in-order/589887.md?page=1)