The grayscale color palette

[Divitis]

As I'm designing a building, i was looking at color options for the facade, and it struck me that we are stuck with only white - LBG - DBG - Black when for all other hues there are so many more options.

 

Am I the only one missing a 'Warm light gray' (likestone) shade or a 'Very dark gray'?

 

Here's a IRL reference of buildings which I don't feel can be reproduced with what's available.

 

 

Ps: I couldn't find an existing thread where to post, please move this as needed to keep things tidy.

[MAB]

There are the old light grey and dark grey too plus some rarer variants for some pieces.

For that building, I'd go for DBG.

[Divitis]

6 minutes ago, MAB said:

There are the old light grey and dark grey too plus some rarer variants for some pieces.

Not enough parts in these retired colors. Which do look more natural to represent stone (but less for metal).

 

6 minutes ago, MAB said:

For that building, I'd go for DBG.

And tan on the left and LBG on the right probably, but it feels limited to me.

Granted, every year we're treated with one if not two new colors, so one gets easily spoiled these days :)

Edited Tuesday at 07:58 PM by Divitis
Grammar

[Murdoch17]

51 minutes ago, Divitis said:

Not enough parts in these retired colors. Which do look more natural to represent stone (but less for metal).

 

And tan on the left and LBG on the right probably, but it feels limited to me.

Granted, every year we're treated with one if not two new colors, so one gets easily spoiled these days :)

@Divitis I'd agree with totally tan on left, DBG in the middle with black windows for a bit of pop of color. But for the one on the right, I'd say dark green ground floor, dark tan in the middle with LBG roof supports at the very top would work nicely in my opinion. Hope this helps!

Edited Tuesday at 08:50 PM by Murdoch17

[Divitis]

Thanks all for the support, however what I was really looking for was to discuss was:

Am I the only one missing a 'Warm light gray' (limestone) shade or a 'Very dark gray'?

[Mylenium]

14 hours ago, Divitis said:

Am I the only one missing a 'Warm light gray' (likestone) shade or a 'Very dark gray'?

I'd actually be more interested in a lighter light gray and an in-between for DBG and LBG. I'm not sure what a darker DBG would do. Perceived lightness/ luminance has this weird curve where certain colors just cannot be differentiated by the human eye. A "slightly darker grey" would simply look black unless you blast it with light just like super light grey would simply look white. Personally I'm also not too jazzed about "warm grey" as the typical method of just adding red and yellow pigments more often than not looks like a dirty brown rather than actual grey. This would likely require lots of experimentation to get right and I'm leaning more into the purple and green-ish greys for that.

Mylenium

Edited yesterday at 10:34 AM by Mylenium

[MAB]

For the picture, white for the building on the left and tan for the one on the right might work. It really depends on the lighting.

16 minutes ago, Mylenium said:

I'd actually be more interested in a lighter light gray and an in-between for DBG and LBG. 

Same here, especially for the in-between LBG and DBG. 

[Erik Leppen]

There are sand blue and dark tan to add accents. Not sure if these are of any use here? Especially sand blue?