tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post8960155690816505426..comments2024-03-28T21:48:28.459+00:00Comments on New Elementary: LEGO® parts, sets and techniques: Old Bricks: Brick Yellow & Brick RedAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188856208086872634noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-82274511726868191472017-03-15T08:33:53.195+00:002017-03-15T08:33:53.195+00:00To add my 2 cents - The first storey of my house (...To add my 2 cents - The first storey of my house (in NZ) is covered with bricks that are quite close to the LEGO "Brick Yellow" colour so the name doesn't sound that weird ;-)Scrubshttp://www.mecabricks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-74694931307315055202017-03-14T12:47:17.922+00:002017-03-14T12:47:17.922+00:00The red color comes from iron in the clay. If you ...The red color comes from iron in the clay. If you use clay from the areas that has a lot of iron in the soil, the iron oxidizes in the burning process and creates the red color. So depending on location there can be more red or more tan bricks used in buildings, because brick is traditionally very localized building material (of course nowdays you can order bricks from where ever you want). Also the burning process affects the color. For example the longer you burn the clay the darker the color usually becomes.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10477159897125999672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-6219635432370267932017-03-13T23:34:55.480+00:002017-03-13T23:34:55.480+00:00Yeah, I'm looking at the pic with all the Fabu...Yeah, I'm looking at the pic with all the Fabuland parts, and even after reading everything down to that point I'm still thinking "that seems really dark for tan". I generally only think of two types of bricks, in the US. Dark-red looks like standard masonry bricks, and the other style is the big, grey cinder blocks that are used for more industrial/foundational purposes.<br /><br />But it does highlight an interesting point. Castle builders love the greys because they allow much more "realistic" colors for castle walls than the famous, original Yellow Castle. However, if you actually look up pictures of real European castles, very few of them actually look like one of the various shades of grey. Besides that, you get white, black, _yellow_, tan, rose, and basically whatever other colors of stone happened to be handy to quarry in militarily strategic locations. In the same way, I have actually seen masonry bricks in various shades of tans and browns (and sometimes what look like scorched for black), but I suspect the traditional dark-red ones are achieved through some additive where the other colors may just be the natural result of how the raw materials are sourced.<br /><br />On a related note, I noticed in the Chicago area that some of the newly-paved stretches of freeway have a very distinctly red tint to the blacktop, and unlike the little grooves that are not becoming commonplace in newly-paved Michigan freeways, nobody has been able to explain why Chicago's would have that uniform red tint.Purple Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-27121829668362197472017-03-13T19:00:49.840+00:002017-03-13T19:00:49.840+00:00Terracotta, for reference: https://www.google.com/...Terracotta, for reference: https://www.google.com/search?q=terracotta&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ0s6PldTSAhUP42MKHSTdDJEQ_AUIBigB&biw=1102&bih=1050nathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05518013024314796671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-2869687588933911382017-03-13T18:55:10.873+00:002017-03-13T18:55:10.873+00:00Actually, in American English, "terracotta&qu...Actually, in American English, "terracotta" and "brick red" are two very different colors. Typical terracotta items (mostly roof tiles and plant pots) are slightly brighter than the brown above--about half way between that color and the current lego dark orange color. <br /><br />"Brick red", meanwhile, is a well-established color, having been in Crayola sets as small as 24 (at least) for decades. It's also a color that actual bricks are frequently found in in the US. It's pretty close to the current Lego dark red, but a bit more muted. The Ghostbusters firehouse is probably using the closest color Lego has to what I think of as the default "brick" color. <br /><br />https://www.google.com/search?q=brick+red&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwie5_zsk9TSAhUP8mMKHeFeAHgQ_AUIBigB&biw=1102&bih=1050nathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05518013024314796671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-83079325771747713502017-03-13T15:01:13.689+00:002017-03-13T15:01:13.689+00:00Just yellow? No that would be far too easy Rich ;)...Just yellow? No that would be far too easy Rich ;) TLG named it Bright Yellow. Although in fact, every TLG designer I've spoken to says that internally, colours are referred to by their Color ID! So they would call yellow "24". All clear? :DAdminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188856208086872634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-37388713731131260852017-03-13T14:18:49.135+00:002017-03-13T14:18:49.135+00:00Thanks for the interesting trivia article, Frances...Thanks for the interesting trivia article, Francesco. I can assure you, Brick Yellow sounds just as strange to my Anglo ears as it does your Italian ones. To make matters worse, the people working at Lego in the 1960s were using 'brick' to refer to real bricks, whereas we AFOLs use it as a generic term for LEGO bricks, esp. when the TLG gets all trademark-heavy on us. So if you say Brick Yellow, I think of the classic bright Yellow lego shade. I wonder, what do they refer to that as internally? Just yellow, I guess.richselbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10055438920100609330noreply@blogger.com