Cathay Pacific green is.....actually grey!!
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pons399
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It’s green, Cathay’s official merch has it green. Looks gray under certain lighting conditions, but clearly the same color as the engines.
You guys make me laugh and the conversations around this especially make me smile.
Cathay Pacific themselves clearly don't think it is green!!!
and from the Cathay brand guidelines themselves:
Cathay Pacific themselves clearly don't think it is green!!!
and from the Cathay brand guidelines themselves:
Macsergey
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Despite it is called grey, the color is not neutral grey, it has less red then green and blue, so it is greenish-bluish grey
Cathay themselves are saying the colour is PMS 5455, which works out to be #c7d7e0 RGB 199:215:224
qweyrhgf
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I think that's the crux of the problem. According to the official website, the correct color is gray. But, everyone knows that the color in reality is mostly green.
The colors used by manufacturers and on their official websites will appear different from reality.So this also explains why the manufacturer used the wrong color.
Macsergey
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the color is definitely bluish according to the CMYK values, but it might be some brain trick what makes it look greenish instead of bluish due to another dark green color is used, also a human eye is more sensitive to green what might also affect this
planes_on_a_shelf
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I'm happy I (finally) made this thread that I've been thinking of for a while
Thread title edited accordingly
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Phantom
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Dealing with this almost daily (just now had a cold light grey that appeared antique pink on its pale turquise base) and yes, this happens frequently.
In case of jpegs, such "off greys" often confuse the auto white balance in images.
DTcustoms
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Reminds me of when people were discussing about the A350 wings color
JJ Skippy
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Honestly - as long as it's not egregiously off (which to me most seem pretty acceptable) I don't mind. Seems like this color is another one of those that manufacturers have some variety in, though this one doesn't seem as bad as the American mica paint or the United Battleship Gray.
Phantom
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The problem here is the variety on one and the same model.
nat_hat
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Maybe it is grey rather than green (for me I think the recent Phoenix rendition looks close enough), but if so it is definitely not as light a grey as the NG photos show.
planes_on_a_shelf
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Right.
That all of the above examples, barring may be the one 748F, possess.
And as long as a manufacturer doesn't keep altering between their own releases - that we see say between the two 748Fs
JJ Skippy
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That I can understand - manufacturers should be able to stay consistent with the color. I still remember the debacle with all the different shades of American's livery.
bakejobb_23
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so is the dress black and blue or white and gold…?
TrijetBlast
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Here's a design question to anyone who's familiar or in the industry:
Do airlines use Pantone, CMYK, RGB or HEX when they mix the actual paint? How do they transfer print color swatches to actual paint? Does actual paint have a color swatch library based off from Pantone, CMYK, HEX or RGB?
To me, RGB is more like a screen color and just like HEX it's for digital design or web but paint is a total different medium.
I always curious how close of actual paint color to match up with the screen color they look at on a monitor of a color swatch
Do airlines use Pantone, CMYK, RGB or HEX when they mix the actual paint? How do they transfer print color swatches to actual paint? Does actual paint have a color swatch library based off from Pantone, CMYK, HEX or RGB?
To me, RGB is more like a screen color and just like HEX it's for digital design or web but paint is a total different medium.
I always curious how close of actual paint color to match up with the screen color they look at on a monitor of a color swatch
Phantom
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These are all different systems.
HEX and RGB are all digital while Pantone/RAL is usually used as a design reference (prototyoing, product, print), printers print process colors based on CMYK(+) and there's aero specific systems. For decades the worldwide "standard" in the airline business was the BAC system by Boeing. But there are other systems (Airbus, ATR...) as well today.
So when a new design is set up, this can be done based on RAL for example, design guides translate this for the digital world (RGB, HEX..) and aero coatings either get customised or existing "close" tones are selected. RAL 7001 for example can be painted using BAC 708 grey on an aircraft for example as these are close matches.
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