Might be fun to map the gamut drifting around in colorspace over the years
This reminds me of a theory I read about long ago about how bubbles correlate to vampire movies and recessions to zombie moves. Black, white, and red vs greys and browns. Notably zombie movies involve eating grey brains and are high on gore but not on blood so much.
I did a similar analysis recently on the secular rise in the word protocol in tv and movies. Some fun results I’ll be sharing at some point
Pink (but really magenta) and blue (but really cyan) was the synthwave thing they had a few years back; maybe some of the designers were affected, and maybe fashion's leaning into the 'feminine' side of this. Or it could be the trans flag, but that's a paler shade of pink (which actually does seem to be in second place overall in your manual list; a pale blue is in fourth place).
I noticed back in, I think, 2021, that all new cars in the US were made in fascist colors: blue, red, white, black, and silver. I mean literally 99%. Also, all cars made in the US now except the VW, the Jeep, and maybe a couple of others, look angry. All the headlights are designed to look like angry slanted eyes. I don't think there's any engineering or aerodynamic reason for doing that.
I'd limit 'fascist' to red, white, and black. Otherwise you have to drop Italy's green and Spain's yellow in there, and that doesn't match.
Also, blue is in the flags of the US, the UK, and France, all of which opposed the original fascists and were more associated with liberal democracy for a while, and Israel, their primary victims.
I think it's mostly men who get excited about new cars, and we tend to prefer the major colors. (*I* was really excited about the raw umber in my Crayola box, but I'm the exception.)
i bought red on my color of the year market after reading this https://manifold.markets/sympatheticopp/what-will-the-pantone-color-of-the
New idea: do a Fourier or wavelet decomposition. See how long the period of the cycle of popularity is!
Might be fun to map the gamut drifting around in colorspace over the years
This reminds me of a theory I read about long ago about how bubbles correlate to vampire movies and recessions to zombie moves. Black, white, and red vs greys and browns. Notably zombie movies involve eating grey brains and are high on gore but not on blood so much.
I did a similar analysis recently on the secular rise in the word protocol in tv and movies. Some fun results I’ll be sharing at some point
Pink (but really magenta) and blue (but really cyan) was the synthwave thing they had a few years back; maybe some of the designers were affected, and maybe fashion's leaning into the 'feminine' side of this. Or it could be the trans flag, but that's a paler shade of pink (which actually does seem to be in second place overall in your manual list; a pale blue is in fourth place).
I noticed back in, I think, 2021, that all new cars in the US were made in fascist colors: blue, red, white, black, and silver. I mean literally 99%. Also, all cars made in the US now except the VW, the Jeep, and maybe a couple of others, look angry. All the headlights are designed to look like angry slanted eyes. I don't think there's any engineering or aerodynamic reason for doing that.
I'd limit 'fascist' to red, white, and black. Otherwise you have to drop Italy's green and Spain's yellow in there, and that doesn't match.
Also, blue is in the flags of the US, the UK, and France, all of which opposed the original fascists and were more associated with liberal democracy for a while, and Israel, their primary victims.
I think it's mostly men who get excited about new cars, and we tend to prefer the major colors. (*I* was really excited about the raw umber in my Crayola box, but I'm the exception.)