The colour of textures in BI vs lego active palette

[Peter Grass]

What is the position in regard to matching the colours of the BI textures vs the colours that say Bricklink say the colours are?

For example making part 3069pb1341
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...#T=C&C=152

A) is the part in studio which uses the texture from BI

B) My go to match those colours

C) The colours if you go by the parts description in the Bricklink store.

So do we just ignore the actual texture colours and go with the store decription?

[Chris Böhnke]

No sure I understand the question correctly, but from the photo, those colours look like:

15 White
19 Tan
84 Medium Nougat
322 Medium Azure
272 Dark Blue

In the end, it's always best to consider all sources:

• BI "should" be correct, but they tend to not match the official Lego hexes perfectly, which I interpret as a warning sign.
  
• Bricklink has a 60-70% hit ratio when it comes to colours, which should always be seen a critical
  
• Photos heavily depend on lighting and image quality, so it's best to check for multiple image sources and compare
  
• Having the real part is often very helpful, but requires a matching example of every ink on the part as a plastic counterpart. Also thin lines are still hard to identify.
  

Also try seeing the print in context:

• How does it match to other colours in the set (or theme) it first appeared in?
  
• Were the colours part of the palette in that year it first appeared?
  
• Is a small detail worth introducing another colour in that print? Note that the amount of colours influences the production cost.
  
• Does it make sense depicting the "object" in the print in that colour? Especially when facing licensed parts, checking the (non-Lego) source it's based on might help.
  

Hope that helps,

br
Chris

[Orion Pobursky]

The short answer is: make a judgement call. The worst that will happen is that we'll have to change it later.