Tom Sachs's COLOR Hex Codes
I come back to COLOR by Tom Sachs whenever I want to force myself into an artistic decision.
It tells me: take a stance on the infinite spectrum of artistic choice, commit, and defend your reasons. They’re as good as any others.
This time, I realized that I haven’t seen these colors (the static set they use in their studio) written out online. I think Sachs might hate these being reduced to hex codes, so I’m going to do it here.
Most of the colors in the film are only described as a reference to a paint or brand color; I’ve done the best I can to get an accurate hex code.
| Color | Reference | Hex | Image |
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| White | Benjamin Moore’s Decorator’s White | #EBEDEA |
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| Green | Olive Drab #7 | #3C341F |
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| Yellow | McDonald’s yellow (Golden Acrylic C.P. Cadmium yellow medium, #1130-6, series 7) or Kodak yellow (Golden Acrylic Diarylide yellow, #1147-6, series 6) | #FFCC00 |
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| Red | McDonald’s red (Benjamin Moore Impervex latex high gloss metal and wood enamel, brilliant red 309 20) | #DA291C |
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| Blue | They kinda punt on picking a blue color, but anchor on: police barricade blue | #004B87 |
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| Blue | They kinda punt on picking a blue color, but also anchor on: Gulf Porsche blue | #96D0E5 |
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| Orange | Hermes orange | #F37021 |
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| Black | Benjamin Moore Impervex latex high gloss metal and wood enamel, black 309 80 | #151515 |
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| Purple | forbidden in the studio |
If you have a better reference for any of these, please send it my way and I’ll update this list.