Comment by dylan604
7 days ago
It's interesting how pink tends to be the worst of the colors according to the charts. I wonder what it really looks like on paper. Does it disappear completely so it is very hard to see, or is it just invisible in the data as it rounds to 0 but leaves something visible on the paper? If you did an image in pink duotone with the worst offenders, would you have a blank sheet of paper after 26 weeks? Or does it look like something done in white duotone?
Red, in general, sucks.
Look at all the red-white-and-blue bumper stickers. They are usually white-and-blue.
Around here, we have school buses with a sticker on the back, announcing that they don't turn right on RED (with "RED" being in heavy letters, and colored red).
They frequently say that they don't turn right on.
Red ink absorbs high energy photons so yeah it tends to get trashed. Mineral reds are good (the red on a red metal barn) and some chemical reds but not others. I remember on Jan 1, 2002 walking around Binghamton where there were many white-grey-and-blue flag lawn signs all over town that had been hurriedly installed the prior September and going in to watch a parade on TV where an announcer said “You know what my favorite bumper sticker is? These colors don’t run”
The flag I got from the US Army in 1993 when my father passed away is still in great shape while many of them don’t look so good.
You can (could?) see it in a lot of red cars too, they fade to a colour that I can only describe as "faded red car". They either use a different, more stable paint nowadays or avoid red paint in general.