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I guess it has to do with the fact that everything is greyscale nowadays ... did you notice there are no more coloured cars, and the few that are there are all
by vb-8448 3mo ago
I guess it has to do with the fact that everything is greyscale nowadays ... did you notice there are no more coloured cars, and the few that are there are all faded.
- HPsquared 3mo agoI think because people are visually overstimulated from all the content in their phones, they prefer plain minimal design in the physical world.
- LtWorf 3mo agoIt's not about what people want, it's about what designers all sheepishly follow.
- dnemmers 3mo agoI'm guessing limited car colors benefits the manufacturers more so than the customer. Less choice means less cost. Additionally, by avoiding 'polarizing' colors, they likely won't have issues with unsellable stock.
- HPsquared 3mo agoCan also be a side effect of cars being so expensive, people want to minimise depreciation so choose conservative colours.
- sib 3mo agoPodcast: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/car-colors/ https://freakonomics.com/podcast/car-colors/
- rsynnott 3mo agoThe cars are primarily an efficiency thing; it's more efficient to just make a few colours. The requirement for those colours to be boring _may_ be coming to an end, though; see the Renault 5. It only comes in five colours, but two of those are yellow and green. Anecdotally, pretty much every Renault 5 I see around is yellow or green, so apparently people like it.