Comment by ChrisMarshallNY
7 days ago
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.