In the category "So what?" I am trying to get a handle on those brown colors that grace the 1974 Mopars. There are five of them on that year's color chip card:
KL8 Dark Moonstone Metallic, Ditzler 2633; #473216 sRGB(71, 50, 22)
KT5 Sienna Metallic, Ditzler 2634; #A45C40 sRGB(164, 92, 64)
KT9 Dark Chestnut Metallic, Ditzler 2590; #3A2921 sRGB(58, 41, 33)
JY6 Golden Haze Metallic, Ditzler 2509; #765A39 sRGB(118, 90, 57)
JY9 Tahitian Gold Metallic, Ditzler 2510; #3D2F20 sRGB(61, 47, 32)
(The hexadecimal code is in the source code of the 1974 PaintRef page and the sRGB numbers are another way of saying the same thing.)
Most Chrysler names sound rather exciting (-- "Do you prefer your new car in Golden Haze or Tahitian Gold, sir?" -- "Can't I have both?") but do not help me very much in understanding which color is meant. For those who have seen these colors on actual cars this may be all right, but apart from Dark Moonstone this is not the case for me. The digital codes I added may pin it down for a web page designer, but again do not immediately produce a color in my mind. Even on my computer screen it's hard to see the difference between KL8/#473216, KT9/#3A2921 and JY9/#3D2F20. So all these names and numbers are mostly identifiers, with little descriptive power.
General color descriptors are contained in the ISCC-NBS system, that works with a controlled dictionary. A limited set of words is used to describe 267 distinctive colors points.
So I tried to map the five Chrysler browns to these descriptors, helped by conversions to hexadecimal equivalents done by David Mundie, John Foster and Paul Centore. Each of them used a slightly different method with inevitably slightly different results. Leaving out the gruesome detail, this is what I ended up with:
Dark Moonstone Metallic = Dark Yellowish Brown (NBS 78)
Sienna Metallic = Light Brown (NBS 57)
Dark Chestnut Metallic = Dark Grayish Brown (NBS 62)
Golden Haze Metallic = Moderate Yellowish Brown (NBS 77)
Tahitian Gold Metallic = Dark Olive Brown (NBS 96)
where "=" here means 'corresponds more or less to'. For KT5 Sienna and JY6 Golden Haze the Delta-E color distance metric was not very close to the assigned descriptors, but I couldn't find anything better. The five NBS descriptors do agree that we are dealing with browns here, so basicly we're on the same page. For instance, HL4 Sahara Beige and KY4 Golden Fawn, two more earth tones, do not turn up as browns in the ISCC-NBS system.
Maybe members who have first-hand knowledge of these colors could chime in and tell if they can live with these descriptors.
KL8 Dark Moonstone Metallic, Ditzler 2633; #473216 sRGB(71, 50, 22)
KT5 Sienna Metallic, Ditzler 2634; #A45C40 sRGB(164, 92, 64)
KT9 Dark Chestnut Metallic, Ditzler 2590; #3A2921 sRGB(58, 41, 33)
JY6 Golden Haze Metallic, Ditzler 2509; #765A39 sRGB(118, 90, 57)
JY9 Tahitian Gold Metallic, Ditzler 2510; #3D2F20 sRGB(61, 47, 32)
(The hexadecimal code is in the source code of the 1974 PaintRef page and the sRGB numbers are another way of saying the same thing.)
Most Chrysler names sound rather exciting (-- "Do you prefer your new car in Golden Haze or Tahitian Gold, sir?" -- "Can't I have both?") but do not help me very much in understanding which color is meant. For those who have seen these colors on actual cars this may be all right, but apart from Dark Moonstone this is not the case for me. The digital codes I added may pin it down for a web page designer, but again do not immediately produce a color in my mind. Even on my computer screen it's hard to see the difference between KL8/#473216, KT9/#3A2921 and JY9/#3D2F20. So all these names and numbers are mostly identifiers, with little descriptive power.
General color descriptors are contained in the ISCC-NBS system, that works with a controlled dictionary. A limited set of words is used to describe 267 distinctive colors points.
So I tried to map the five Chrysler browns to these descriptors, helped by conversions to hexadecimal equivalents done by David Mundie, John Foster and Paul Centore. Each of them used a slightly different method with inevitably slightly different results. Leaving out the gruesome detail, this is what I ended up with:
Dark Moonstone Metallic = Dark Yellowish Brown (NBS 78)
Sienna Metallic = Light Brown (NBS 57)
Dark Chestnut Metallic = Dark Grayish Brown (NBS 62)
Golden Haze Metallic = Moderate Yellowish Brown (NBS 77)
Tahitian Gold Metallic = Dark Olive Brown (NBS 96)
where "=" here means 'corresponds more or less to'. For KT5 Sienna and JY6 Golden Haze the Delta-E color distance metric was not very close to the assigned descriptors, but I couldn't find anything better. The five NBS descriptors do agree that we are dealing with browns here, so basicly we're on the same page. For instance, HL4 Sahara Beige and KY4 Golden Fawn, two more earth tones, do not turn up as browns in the ISCC-NBS system.
Maybe members who have first-hand knowledge of these colors could chime in and tell if they can live with these descriptors.