My unofficial beat on Mashable is complaining about the color of Apple’s phones. The “dark purple” iPhone wasn’t purple enough for me. I’m still waiting for my dream hot pink Barbie iPhone.
Samsung entered the ring today. A leak for the new Samsung Galaxy S23 line speculated about four new colors:(opens in new window) Phantom Black, Botanic Green, Cotton Flower, Misty Lilac. And those are names that come to play. Just reading them gives me a pretty good idea of what they look like.
Galaxy S23 lineup: Green, Lavender, Phantom Black, Cream
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Today, Samsung announced the official color names, Phantom Black, Cream, Green, and Lavender, so I could easily find myself trusting too much.I may not be a color expert, but I am color maniathere is feedback.
Phantom Black and Cream are accurate enough, but Lavender and Green get it right.
Let’s look at “lavender” first. It’s more pink than purple and more lilac than lavender (lilac flowers are softer and pinker).(opens in new window) than the lavender flowers that are closer to true purple). When I tried to match Pantone’s colors to his official S23 photos, I found that Samsung’s “lavender” image is a bit gray, if at its brightest. The darkest state is what Pantone calls “Orchid Ice.” Samsung, I cannot accept this.
Lavender is basically chilled out of this shade.
Credit: Mashable Composite: Samsung
“Green” is the road, road Color categories are too broad. And surprisingly, green is applied to at least 100 shades, but very little to this color. gray? charcoal? Maybe. The Pantone color we found to match the top is called “Sedona Sage.” During this conference call, someone at Samsung fell asleep while driving. Another L from Samsung.
Sage Shumage. it is grey.
Credit: Mashable Composite: Samsung
I’m picky about colors, but numbers are on my side.Forbes headline(opens in new window) “Samsung Galaxy S23 series is gorgeous despite understated colors,” read one Twitter user, who racked up over 3,500 likes lamenting Samsung’s color perception and poor naming. Well, there will definitely be next year.
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