Talk:Taupe

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Hey, that slang section is probably wrong. No one uses that. I feel like that was just some kid trying to create his own slang here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.122.159 (talk) 08:48, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

"Taupe"? the color of 1980s computers? We call that "beige."

[edit] Animal color

"The color refers to the French name for the European Mole, Talpa europaea. The fur of this animal has this color."

No it doesn't. Moles are much darker. I've been trying to find out why there's such a difference between the color of the animal and the color of the color, but so far no luck. El Mariachi 02:44, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

The etymology of the word is based upon the color of a rodent, the name also appears in the English speaking world as "mouse's back." Moles, mice and ats ahe variation in color, from white, to coffee warm gray to dark cool gray. Likely the color name was absed on a variant that combined warm (coffee color) with cool gray, pretty much what is commonly called taupe today, and considerably more complex than computer hardware beige. CApitol3 16:05, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Better description required

It is very difficult to understand a colour from a small example block on a computer monitor!

I think we need to look at adding a much more verbose and descriptive explanation. Would it be fair to say, for example, that taupe generally means a subdued greyish colour, usually containing a tint of another colour (for example brown)?

Brewabeer 23:59, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

"Would it be fair to say, for example, that taupe generally means a subdued greyish colour, usually containing a tint of another colour (for example brown)?"

No "generally" needed. Taupe always refers to a gray with some brown in it, or, if you prefer, a brown with a lot of gray in it. It's essentially a very-low-saturation brown. But it's also one of the vaguest and most variable color terms there is, so it will unfortunately never be "nailed down" adequately on the Wikipedia page.

[edit] "The world standard for color before the invention of computers"???

The article mentions "the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color, the world standard for color terms before the invention of computers.".

This is insupportable for several reasons. A big one is that the range of colors that the vast majority of computer monitors can produce is only a fraction of the range of human color vision, as well as the range of colors produced by pigments: see the article Gamut and particularly the diagram on the upper right. So color standards for computers are certainly not color standards for the real world.

Another is that for many, many years after the invention of computers in the 1940's, almost all computers were unable to display any significant range of colors at all.Daqu (talk) 14:04, 13 April 2008 (UTC)