A trivial question

[Ken Milhinch]

I often see Festool referred to as "black & green", but to my old eyes it has always been dark blue and green. (Even the colours on this site are blue & green)
In order to save me the cost of a vision test, perhaps others could tell me if they see it that way as well ? ;D

 

[nickao]

You better go to the doctor and fast. It's green and not close to blue, not even a hint.

Now the older Festo stuff was blue. The background behind the letters F on the left side of the Home page have a small background that is blue, that's about it.

It could be your monitor though.

 

[jaegerhund]

The tools are black and green for sure ---- the catalog I have in front of me has a bluish/black cover --- actually I do associate a bluish/black color with Festool so I must have seen it in the past as well.  Don't know really  ???.

Justin

 

[nickao]

Take this test:

Eye color test

It looks like Red and/ or green are the most common color blindness in men.

Can you see a 5 or 2 in the picture. If you see a 2 you have red/green color problems.

Nick

 

[Ken Milhinch]

I see the number 5 quite clearly.

 

[nickao]

Then its not you!

Its so weird I put the test below on my desktop and when it is only icon size I see a two on my ocean blue/green background. When I click and make it bigger I see the 5. I guess when looking at small things I am color blind! Or it does not work at 3/4" size. Too weird.

I have to make a trick inlay like that!

 

[gkeas]

i see the 5 clearly, but I can also make out the 2.

hey, check me out, I'm bi-numerical... ???

;D

 

[Ken Milhinch]

Here's something for you to ponder. When I go to the Festool Australia website and look at some of the coding in the home page, I see they use colour 000D31, which is blue, and that seems to be the same colour they have used for the background on this site.

 

[nickao]

I just can not see the two at all until I shrink it down less than an inch.

 

[nickao]

Here's something for you to ponder. When I go to the Festool Australia website and look at some of the coding in the home page, I see they use colour 000D31, which is blue.

Whats the link I want to check it out.

I checked it out and on the Australian site it is nowhere as green as on the USA site, definitley a differnt bluish or puke green color. Not what I think of when I think of Festool.

 

[Eli]

To return to the original question. ....

Both my Kapex and my Rotex can be a purpley blue in the right light, esp. outside. But usually they look black. All my other tools are black 24/7

 

[spikfot]

I often see Festool referred to as "black & green", but to my old eyes it has always been dark blue and green. (Even the colours on this site are blue & green)
In order to save me the cost of a vision test, perhaps others could tell me if they see it that way as well ? ;D

i'm with you, ken.  the two colors found on my festools is green and dark blue(very dark).  the cords are the only black i see.                  if you doubt this shave off a little piece of the "dark" plastic with a utility blade and look at it throught light.     
   

 

[nickao]

Okay I digress. In my shop on the using the newest monitor the Festool usa site does look blue above and below the Festool green and that sits on a black background. Good eye.

All tools look black and green, though I have little natural light in the shop. The RO Top where you hold it definitley  is not jet black, it shows that way on the top of this forum too.

 

[woodshopdemos]

I see 2 in metric. I wish that DOS or the monitor people would give us color bars to use in setting color...or even a Macgregor Color Checker. We are lefy with the task of setting by eye...not good.

 

[Matthew Schenker]

Good Morning,
No question, Festool colors are Green and what I would call "bluey-black."  In fact, when I was designing the background color for this site, it was quite a challenge finding that exact shade.

Definitely not just black!

Matthew

 

[Dave Ronyak]

Interesting color test "dots" diagram.  I see neither a 2 nor a 5 clearly on my Dell LCD laptop monitor, but rather a blend of the two characters which overall looks like a poorly drawn 8, with the bottom mostly off the normal lines for an 8.

My Festool products appear much the same as do their photo reproductions on this site -- pale green (somewhat like a Luna moth) and light gray and black.

Dave R.

 

[Dan Lyke]

Always looked dark blue to me. Especially next to things like the guide rail stops or end guard, which are clearly black.

 

[Matthew Schenker]

Good Afternoon,
Just to add another tid-bit here: the bluey-black background of the forum is #003981.
Of course, this color may appear more blue or more black depending on your monitor.
Matthew

 

[nickao]

Its gray on this monitor, different on the shop. I took some tools outside and I do see how they can be called dark bluish.

 

[Jim Metzger]

Checking colors on an uncalibrated monitor especially on a Windows machine is tricky at best. I know for sure that Safari and the latest version of Firefox browsers are "color aware" meaning they correctly interpret the web designers colors. A good friend who is a web designer maintains Apple and Windows machines with all the major browsers for checking color before it goes out.

By the way, I see dark blue in a lot of my Festool's and in the shirt that uncle Bob was kind enough to include in my order.

Jim