# What color was this car? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 21, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473 "2018-12-21T06:03:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/1 "2018-12-21T06:03:34Z")
I saw a Camry hybrid in the parking lot, it looked very new, and it was the most beautiful pale pearly green. Does anyone know what that shade of green is called? I tried looking it up, got nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/2 "2018-12-21T06:43:09Z")
Maybe Jasper Green Pearl: [http://gtcarlot.com/colors/car/17823995-3.html](http://gtcarlot.com/colors/car/17823995-3.html) ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/3 "2018-12-21T08:24:42Z")
Toyota sell a 2018 camry in Galactic Aqua Mica . Which definitely looks a bit green. There’s nothing new under the sun though. Mica just means it looks pearlised. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/4 "2018-12-21T14:43:08Z")
> [@sweepkick](#): > > Maybe Jasper Green Pearl: > > [2007 Jasper Green Pearl Toyota Camry Hybrid #17823995 Photo #3 | GTCarLot.com - Car Color Galleries](http://gtcarlot.com/colors/car/17823995-3.html) That’s a 2007. My wife has that same car (model, year, color). It is not as breathtaking as what seems to be described in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/5 "2018-12-21T14:47:33Z")
Here are all the [2018 colors](http://www.hilandtoyota.com/blog/2018-toyota-camry-paint-color-options/), and Galactic Aqua Mica would be my best guess, though none of these looks “pale green” to me. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/6 "2018-12-21T16:51:33Z")
Coulda been a custom paint job. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/7 "2018-12-22T00:54:31Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > That’s a 2007. My wife has that same car (model, year, color). It is not as breathtaking as what seems to be described in the OP. That looks like it, thank you. Jasper Green Pearl. I’m sorry you don’t find it as “breathtaking” as I do. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/8 "2018-12-22T01:57:53Z")
I wouldn’t use the word “breathtaking” to describe it just because I wouldn’t really use that word to describe anything at all, but I do think the color is eye-catching. I don’t see many cars with that shade of green. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/9 "2018-12-22T16:40:28Z")
And here I thought the guesses would be black and blue or white and [gold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/10 "2018-12-23T16:15:49Z")
Jean Shepherd had a name for that color in one of his stories (from “Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters”): _“The Olds was our only hope. It was a large, hulking four-door sedan of a peculiar faded green color that the old man always called “goat-vomit green.”_ ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/11 "2018-12-23T22:47:51Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > That looks like it, thank you. Jasper Green Pearl. > > I’m sorry you don’t find it as “breathtaking” as I do. Nothing personal. Your post said “very new” and that color is older–I haven’t found one later than a 2009 in that color–so I didn’t think that could be it. I have one and I would have described it as just light green so I was looking for something in current models that was a more dramatic green. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/12 "2018-12-23T22:54:27Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > And here I thought the guesses would be black and blue or white and [gold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress). I came here to make that (admittedly lame) joke, but at the risk of a further hijack, the image here ([The dress - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress#/media/File:Wikipe-tan_wearing_The_Dress_reduced.svg)) from your link is the best visualization of the “illusion” I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-was-this-car/826473/13 "2018-12-24T06:11:18Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Here are all the [2018 colors](http://www.hilandtoyota.com/blog/2018-toyota-camry-paint-color-options/), and Galactic Aqua Mica would be my best guess, though none of these looks “pale green” to me. Galactic Aqua Mica is a **very** dark teal color, and the color of my car. No one can actually tell what color it is, and I usually call it “indeterminable dark color” myself.