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Reading this article in a Copenhagen street. Houses built in the 1700s, and are a rich orange. Every car parked in the street is monochrome: https://www.instagram.com/p/ChSUWOgsnoA/

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Same in Germany (2020).

Gray 30.3%

Black 24.8%

White 20.6%

Blue 10.9%

Red 7.2%

Brown 1.3%

Yellow, green, orange (not in combination, I think) 1.1%

https://www.t-online.de/auto/technik/id_88367288/auto-diese-...

> Yellow, green, orange (not in combination, I think)

That would be quite a lot of VW Harlekins[1] otherwise :D

[1] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:VW_Polo_III_Harlekin.J...

Is there a way to see that Instagram picture without logging in? Sounds interesting.

Nice! Great that people have the choice to get their preferred color and didn't feel unduly pressured to match some centuries-old drab orange color. I once lived in a house that was remodeled in the 1970s and it had horrible garish orange carpet and green vinyl floors! Very happy with my white car.

The orange was part of the 70s "earth tone" aesthetic.

https://flashbak.com/when-living-rooms-went-brown-earth-toni...

Not sure what happened with the floors, but I would guess they were older. 60s, maybe, and not upgraded because they sprang for new carpet but not linoleum?

This is sarcasm, but people unfamiliar with Copenhagen might not be aware. Some historic buildings use this shade of yellow, produced using iron vitriol (iron (ii) sulphate) and whitewash.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyboder

And https://www.reddit.com/r/copenhagen/comments/hylj0b/orange_w...

It's not sarcasm. I'm voicing an opinion which -- despite the vast majority of people preferring grays blacks and whites -- is considered uncouth and offensive. I've seen a few articles like this discussed recently, it's apparently considered a bad thing. It's sign of how dreary people are, or how they've become cogs in the corporate machine, or some other portent of how much worse the common folk are.

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