# What color is this? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 21, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878 "2024-05-21T16:40:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/41 "2024-05-21T20:35:07Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Remember, though, in real life the color may be different. Yes, standing in my basement looking at the picture on my phone and the doors at the same time, there’s a difference. But this morning when I showed my gf the picture she insisted they were green doors. I’ve started needing glasses for reading recently (I’m old) and was seriously worried for a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/42 "2024-05-21T20:38:06Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > This morning my gf wanted me to check out something in our basement. We have a big basement, so I asked her to be more specific. She told me to look **“in front of the green doors”**. > > I then went downstairs and looked around. I couldn’t find green doors _anywhere_. My gf asked if I was color blind. And now you both absolutely need to watch **Sorry to Bother You**. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/43 "2024-05-21T21:42:05Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > She told me to look **“in front of the green doors”** Did you look Behind the Green Door? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/44 "2024-05-21T21:47:37Z")
Heh, I remember that! ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/45 "2024-05-21T22:17:37Z")
Here is what I see. The first and third panels are light tan. The other three are beige. Not a hint of green to me. The bag on the left is yellow with a hint of green. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/46 "2024-05-21T22:20:25Z")
I see cream or a pale yellow. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/47 "2024-05-21T22:24:50Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Remember, though, in real life the color may be different. To my eyes, this image looks like it’s color balanced a bit warm. If I set my white balance to the “white” on one of the central bags or to the bin on the bottom right, the doors look more obviously green-ish. We really have no idea what it looks like in reality unless we included an XRite Color Checker chart, a calibrated grey card, or some similar known neutral target. Yeah, this. A good idea for anyone wanting opinions on a color in a photo is to include (if no charts or calibrated cards are ready-to-hand) some objects with fairly well-known colors in the same photo. An orange, or perhaps packaging of familiar-brand food items. (I’d have said ‘almond’ for the doors.) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/48 "2024-05-22T01:02:49Z")
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/49 "2024-05-22T00:08:45Z")
It’s literally closer to orange than to green. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/50 "2024-05-22T01:39:04Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Your GF is correct. > A very light value of pea green. > One of the bags is off-white. > Compare the two. > You’ll see the green. Yup. First glance I thought ivory but zooming in with only the off white Macys bag to compare to and very much pea green. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/51 "2024-05-22T01:49:40Z")
I’m with everyone else that says it’s a shade of light brown, like beige. I can see it being something like a banana yellow that’s faded with time, but I would never have thought green. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/52 "2024-05-22T01:50:21Z")
This is not a great way to determine color because of lighting effects, but just for the heck of it, I sampled some pixels from various parts of the doors. Generally red and green are close to each other (with slightly more red) and blue is less, which indicates a yellowish-gray tone: > 9F9270 > B7A982 > 8E8063 > 7C6E51 > B9A985 > A29372 ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/53 "2024-05-22T02:36:16Z")
Cream ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/54 "2024-05-22T02:47:56Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > ivory The Macy’s bag is ivory (which you can see by comparison with the white bag to the left). The doors are tan/beige/etc. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/55 "2024-05-22T02:52:56Z")
Unh, I’m more sensitive to green than most peoples. I see a slightly greenish beige, but the vagaries of cameras, lighting, wall and ceiling hues, and LED screens make an authoritative answer impossible. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/56 "2024-05-22T02:57:08Z")
I don’t see the dress. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/57 "2024-05-22T03:16:23Z")
Just seeing this now, but i am completely in agreement with: > [@Ulfreida](#): > > The color I’d get if I mixed a lot of white, a tinge of black, and a little yellowish green. A tint (lighter tone) of olive. I read all these people saying “beige” and “cream” and thought, “no, no, it’s greener than that!” That being said, i wouldn’t have called them “green doors”, because it’s only a little yellowish green. It’s not a robust green, which is what I’d expect for calling something “green”. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/58 "2024-05-22T03:20:26Z")
Also, > [@DorkVader](#): > > I wonder if your girlfriend is one of those women who is a tetrachromat, meaning they have an extra color cone in their eyes that ¿most? Women and I guess no men have the genetics for. I probably am tetrachomatic. My brother is red-green color-blind, and it’s the same gene. So a priori my odds are 50/50, and until i started developing cataracts, i had really excellent color vision. And also > [@2\_More\_Bits](#): > > Truth be told It’s very possible that our computer monitors could all be displaying the image in a different (perhaps ever so slightly) color. This. Whatever it is, it’s subtle, and monitors actually vary quite a lot in how they display color. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/59 "2024-05-22T03:29:02Z")
Block the yellow bag. Compare the doors to the other two. You’ll see the green. Close your eyes 10 seconds after looking at the yellow bag. Yellow can change your perspective of other colors. Think about yellow and black paired to yellow and purple paired. It’s completely different color altho’ it may be the same exact color swatch. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878/60 "2024-05-22T03:33:45Z")
I was going to say khaki. I could go with beige, pale olive, old gold, several other hues that lie between yellow and green with a bit of grey and brown stirred in. What are the competing positions in the bet that’s being settled? (I shall now read the thread, to see if additional information changes my take on it) ETA: yeah, there’s a tinge of green, but if someone sent me in search of “the green doors” I wouldn’t see these and go “aha, here they are”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-this/1001878.md?page=4)