Is there any color uglier than chartreuse?

I don't get the popularity of it at all

To be fair, there are various shades/levels of chartreuse, some with more yellow, red or blue. R2 is fashionable; R4 is ugly (too much yellow).

I love the colour. Don't think its ugly, but it is a palate cleanser type of colour.

It's the Pantone Color of the Year on Uranus.

It can be stunning when dispensed properly.

The only place where chartreuse is lovely and always welcome.

It's a great accent color. Added to a yellow and vermilion pattern it can be striking.

I enjoy in small doses, certain. shades look stunning in silk.

What's wrong with Muriel Puce??

R2 's model is going commando.

OP "Is there any color uglier than chartreuse? "

Excuse me....??

R5: The dress looks better than the suit.

I like chartreuse, in great moderation. It can be a great color popper for a boring room. A couple of chartreuse throw pillows on a grey sofa can be quite pretty. And a little in an all white kitchen can really make it sparkle.

Now puce, that's a filthy color. I can't fathom why anyone would like it.

I like chartreuse. Of course, not the whole damn room. I love greens and blues in furniture/tapestries.

My favorite color is Rust.

The ugliest color palette in history: CGA's "palette 1", with its lovely combination of black, white, magenta, and cyan (and the only palette where you could have BOTH black AND white).

Magenta and cyan are, IMHO, the two ugliest colors. Something about them just plain feels WRONG, like pressing two adjacent keys on a piano. It doesn't take much tweaking to make them tolerable... tone down the red a bit to get purple, dial down 90% of the green to get blue, and you have a decent combo to go with white and black. But full-bore cyan and magenta is HIDEOUS, especially when used next to each other.

Cyan and magenta are cheap looking. Chartreuse looks expensive. Puce is a mystery, no one can agree on what it is.

Taupe. Mauve. No use for them.

The '70's were over run with Avocado Green, Burnt Orange, and Harvest Gold. I hate them. They were ugly then and when they wash up in a hipster setting, they are just as ugly and unattractive now as they were the first time around.

ha, Op, you just reminded me about my favorite sweater as a young teen. a chartreuse cardigan that I wore frequently and with everything. this was in the 90s.

Every time the color comes back, I'm in the mood for a white-trash version of Brideshead Revisited. Give me old-fashioned maroon and butter-cream.

While chartreuse is a great accent color for people who always wear black, it never stays on trend. Wham! sold kids on neon yellow and pink, but couldn't pull off chartreuse. Issey Miyake layered a see-thru chartreuse/bark shirt in the very early 2000s, but quickly abandoned it. I bought one, but seldom wore it (my body fat had to be under 10% to feel comfortable in it.

For the magenta hater here...how about magenta and chartreuse TOGETHER???

I think it's great as an accent color in a bright, sun-filled room, but as far as clothing no one looks good in chartreuse. No one. Ever.

[quote]no one looks good in chartreuse.

Though I can wear almost any color polo shirt, I had to give a chartreuse one away. And I love the color (in small, "adjacent" doses).

there are two colors uglier than that

1. "peach"

I love aqua. My favorite three colors together are navy, aqua, and chartreuse.

R30 Nice combination but it makes you look like a flower.

Rust, oxblood, Indian red. All those reddish brown colours. Yuck.

Chartreuse is often the color of vomit. Normal humans recoil from it.

When I was a child, chartreuse was my favorite color. Not so much because I liked the color itself, but the name sounded so exotic and fabulous.

The chair in OP's pic is to die for.

What is wrong with you!?!? The Royal Order of Her Majesty, the Queen Elizabeth, is mounted on a watered silk ribbon in a chartreuse colour! Is there anything more prestigious or desirable? The answer is No.

I had a bright green iguana jump on my porch once. I thought it was beautiful

"Dusky rose" and "sponged casual dining orange"

Is it dusky rose or dusty rose? Either way, its soul killing.

r42 Is English Chartreuse different from American Chartreuse?

I love peach. It is flattering to all skin tones.

Peach might look good on some people, but as wall paint - no

There are some light blues that are nice but the ugly 1950's blue-green is awful on clothes or walls. Call it "aqua" or "teal" it is ugly - on walls and most clothes

I like pale shades of turquoise on walls.

The ugliest color in the world is baby-poop brown, or greenish brown.

I love all the aquas (and celadons and mints and sea blues and turqupoises and teals) myself, and magenta, peach, puce, and chartreuse can look good as clothing or décor if done correctly. But baby-poop green is indefensible, it NEVER looks good!

Brown is my least favorite color...brown in any tone, no thanks.

Pullman row houses had "Barcelona Brown" oil paint on the soft wood upper floors and all the baseboards. It was supposed to be a step up from flat black which was used to hide coal soot and shit. However, it looked like someone smeared a dirty diaper on the wood.

The Jugendstil movement featured chartreuse paired with colors such as those favored by R36. The Nanny McPhee house gives an idea of what could be done to avoid greige.

Essential in Mid-century Modern

[quote]R40 Chartreuse is often the color of vomit. Normal humans recoil from it.

It's very "stabby" on the eyes.

It makes me wince.

Angie Dickinson was wearing a chartreuse cocktail dress in the film "The Chase" (1966) I was watching the other night. Her husband, Marlon Brando, in the film made her change because a rich man had given her the dress, and I have to say it was a relief. I never knew chartreuse was so hard on the eyes until I saw this dress.

[quote]Chartreuse is often the color of vomit.

What WERE you eating?

Love all shades of it. Acid green, apple green, etc. Glad it is making the trend again. Chartreuse velvets and silks are my favourites. Green is groovy.

There aren’t any ugly colors, just unstylish people.

Chartreuse can be pretty if there's enough green in it, although it's always unflattering to most skin tones.

But I saw an uglier variant at Macy's the other day - a slightly muted yellow with a little bit of green in it. HIDEOUS! An intensely ugly color, unflattering to every skin tone and reminiscent of vomit. Who the fuck buys these horrors?

Peggy's Mom made it as a salute to the part of France where the Olympics were held...

I've always disliked the red-oranges myself. I hate salmon pink, vermillion, coral, and tomato red for various reasons, but none of them are attractive colors, and none of them are flattering or work as décor.

Of course there's worse things on this thread.

Coral IS a very Crafty Frau color...

It's horrible! MAKE IT STOP!

Today I'm going to honor Datalounge by wearing my chartreuse Calvin Klein boxer briefs.

When you don't want your guests to stay more than a night...

And don't be put off by the fancy accoutraments - it's just as alienating on a lower budget:

I feel an urge to cut off my ear.

When I was a child my parents decided to paint my bedroom walls chartreuse (ugh). We they trying to tell me something ?

A few years later we moved to a new house and my bedroom walls were a beautiful shade of blue ( my favourite colour). Unfortunately the house was in Winnipeg (north of North Dakota) and during the frigid winters my room felt like the coldest in the house. The exterior of the house was painted pink ( or "flamingo" as my mother preferred to call it). I notice on Google Street View that the exterior is now white.

my sister looked great in chartreuse but she could wear any just about color for some reason.

What a bunch of drips!!!! I love ALL the colors being trashed here, and this weak-sister "maybe....as an accent" attitude is so tired. As the song says: "Bright is my favorite color!" Slap it on the walls, girls, and have some fun.

Chartreuse is a bright yet cool color (as opposed to the hot lemon yellows) This inherent contradiction is off-putting to most.

It's spunky and adds a trippy-psychedelic, retro kick to everything it's in.

It creates a very 60s-70s period mood.

R75 over reaches. Better s/he stick with "accessories."

It makes me think of vintage Pucci, Heinz Edelmann, Peter Max, the Luciferian-tarot 60's cover artwork by "The Fool Design Collective", "The Green Man" legend, vintage nature illustrations from the 60's-70's, the Roger Hane cover art of the Collier-Macmillan "Chronicles of Narnia" series.

As R81 points out, there is something slightly disorienting, discordant and alien about the color because our brains are challenged trying to decipher it, as if we have some ancient knowledge of it being associated with something otherworldly.

R74 - a bed under a window is bad feng shui. Also the curtains are the worst part of that room.

[quote]a bed under a window is bad feng shui.

Why, r91?

R91 I love having my bed under a window, because the sunlight wakes me up gently.

All the muddy greens are awful...chartreuse, khaki, olive, avocado; and really anything mixed with brown is unattractive, eg taupe, rust, burnt orange, dusty rose, mauve, mustard as in Dijon mustard, not Colman's. Yet a light lime green, the colour of the stems of spring plants, is very uplifting.

I guess what you call "light lime green," r95, is what I call "chartreuse."

No, R96, it's too jarring; too dark and too much yellow, at least on my monitor.

R96, I call that color "highlighter green".

PMS 374 comes close, at least on my screen. Actually much like that Fiestaware.

I like that, r101. More than the "highlighter green."

The name is even uglier than the color.

The same can be said for mauve. What a hideous word. It sounds like the word for that furry mold you find on rotten citrus.

The fact is that no colour can be assessed in absolute terms. Colours only exist within context to other colours around them. There may be a colour you don't like on its own that will absolutely necessary in a design of other colours. Additionally, one's eye will not perceive the colour looking the same when it is placed next to differing cokours.

Why is everyone hating on chartreuse? It’s the signature color of Datalounge. Muriel is going to ban all of you.

If I ever do drag, "Chartreuse" is definitely going to be my name.

It cuts the appetite when its on tableware.

I love it in relation to turquoise and dark blue, r105.

Yes, r111. It looks good next to fuschia/magenta as well.

Food should never be served on colored plates. White only, maybe with a thin rim of detailing.

I LOVE colored plates. I gave away my white ones in The Big Downsizing.

it's gorgeous and OP is a philistine

I agree with R114. The only food I think works on coloured or decorated tableware is pastry, such as at a tea party. Apart from that, white porcelain all the way.

I like black plates. What do you think of black plates? Not the glazed shiny kind.

I love chartreuse. It's fancy. Although, too much green and you get avocado, too much yellow and it's just awful. I don't mind avocado. I grew up in the 70s, so naturally I detest "earth tones". Rust, burnt sienna, baby-shit brown. Ugh.

Victorian burgundy is the most hideous color of all for decorating.

Feng Shui is about the energy flow in your home and how the human fits in.

“Don’t situate the bed directly under a window. The chi entering through the window will disrupt sleep.” – Feng Shui Bed Positioning. Sally Painter, Feng Shui Practitioner.

“At nighttime your body needs strong support, as well as protection, in order to do its best with the work of regenerating itself. This is the reason a good solid headboard is highly recommended in feng shui. In addition to a good headboard, you always want to have a solid wall behind your bed. When you sleep under the window, your personal energy tends to get weaker in time, as it has neither proper support, nor protection.” – Feng Shui Tips and Solutions for Bed Under Window. Rodika Tchi, Feng Shui Expert.

one doesn't need to go overboard with Feng Shui but some of its basic directions are very wise for a comfortable home in which one feels secure, comfortable, and well.

Brown is my least favorite color. Followed by yellow.

R95 It's just a deep, warm kind of palette and it has its own beauty. You probably don't wear deep and warm well and instinctively, don't want to surround yourself with that palette. But some beauty is brought out with it.

For me, appreciation is all about moods. Sometimes I want the crisp, sun-bleached colors, sometimes I want rainy day gray colors, others, dusty, sunburnt browns. The colors you describe are often found together in Japanese enamelware and material.

R95 This palette adds a warm, ripe feeling to anything it's included in. It also works well communicating a sense of aristocratic decay about a space, high quality and natural materials aged. Chartreuse is the lighter end of a palette of burnt orange, cadmium red, umbers, mustard, clay and parchment whites, moss green, dark turquoise and blue-greens.

A still image from "The Draughtman's Contract" (1982), below:

Pierre was swinging from a chartreuse swing in nickchampa's stories last night.

The only thing worse than the color itself, I suppose, would be a chartreuse colored trellis rug.

It's better than that hideous mustard gold color.

R132 writes the book on DFP.

How dare you? its my fave color: the mystic color of the 4th chakra: wild sexual energy mixed with translucent clairvoyance.

THE COLOR OF KINGS AND QUEENS

and housewives in the burbs in the fiftys....

viva!

How is chartreuse different than lime green? So silly to have two names for the same color. I've just started combining them for convenience sake. Case in point. I came up with the color......

Persalmon

[quote]How is chartreuse different than lime green?

Some shades of chartreuse have more yellow than lime green. The liqueur for which the color is named is very yellow, not reminiscent of lime.

Think pink! Think pink! When you shop for summer clothes. Think pink! think pink! if you want that quel-que chose. Red is dead, blue is through, Green's obscene, brown's taboo. And there is not the slightest excuse for plum or puce —or chartreuse. Think pink! forget that Dior says black and brass. Think pink! who cares if the new look has no ass. Now, I wouldn't presume to tell a gay man what a gay man oughtta think, But tell him if he's gotta think: think pink—!

When I read the OP I just knew there would be Fiesta here.

This is football. All the people wanna hear about are touchdowns and injuries. They don't give a damn 'bout that lime shit.

Which thread does r146 think he is in?

Chartreuse? Maybe rather "Spring Green" but I think that would be a little chalkier in tone.

R147, it’s a line from Ouiser in Steel Magnolias when she’s critiquing Claree’s sports commentary for the radio station.

You can turn in your gay card at the guest services desk on your way out.

[quote] When I was a child my parents decided to paint my bedroom walls chartreuse . . . later we moved to a new house . . . The exterior of the house was painted pink ( or "flamingo" as my mother preferred to call it).

R78, you must have had an interesting upbringing. Come back sometime and tell us more.

Yeeup, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second wore CHARTREUSE AND PURPLE to her grandson's wedding!

If anyone can rock chartreuse and purple it's the Queen.

Makes me think of a refreshing summer icicle pop.

Orange is pretty ugly, OP. It has its place, but never first place.

What's with Lizzie's new affection for recently wearing colors that could both be called chartreuse?

Something to do with r86, perhaps?

R156 Maybe more "neon green" than chartreuse but she's definitely sticking to that sort of palette.

I love chartreuse - it really sends great energy.

I don't usually like chartreuse, but I like the chair in OP's picture.

BMW also had the the color they called "Tiaga." Classic 2002.

Expensive chartreuse in motion.

2002 WWs each for r161 and r162.

are u nuts

its my and manys fave color

git real mary

Just for limes? Or would you squeeze your lemons here too?

The Mandela Effect: which color is chartreuse?

From the "Do You Rinse Your Dishes?" thread, the Joseph Joseph Dishpan/Washing Up Bowl, shown here in "green."

Anthony Joseph and Richard Joseph like chartreuse.

The Joseph Joseph office.

Chartreuse is great for late autumn looks. I love it with brown-black, grays and russet.

I know this is probably going to be an unpopular opinion - but I loathe purple. Any shade, from lilacs to royal purples. I don't know why.

I don't loathe purple, but I don't have any use for it. It can go well with chartreuse, however.

My current least-favorite color is faded black - as seen in your offices across the nation in the form of knitwear - it's not quite discolored, but it's on the cusp of grungy pilling shit rag and those wearing it should be ashamed and bullied.

omfg who would want to look at this everyday when you're preparing food?

It looks great on a microbus, though.

[quote]r173 I know this is probably going to be an unpopular opinion - but I loathe purple. Any shade, from lilacs to royal purples. I don't know why.

Lilac is pretty in small doses. Especially with blue, like below.

I have a lilac slipcovered hassock that looks good. It's an unexpected color. I made it from a chenille bedspread that got wrecked.

The kitchen of r74 s nightmares.

I love purple, both for its own sake and because it's a good color for clothing. Almost everyone looks good in some shade of purple, I myself find that plums flatter my red hair and pasty skin.

Purple shades look especially good on people with brown hair.

Or the darker shades of brown skin, R183, or on blondes. Purple brings out the yellow or gold in your hair with contrast!

It's a very flattering color, as chartreuse is not. Hardly anyone looks good in yellow, and nobody looks good in yellow-greens.

For some reason, seafoam green always makes me feel slightly nauseated. I have a vague memory from my childhood of coloring with a seafoam crayon and being sick. I guess I subconsciously associate this color with feeling ill.

It is as ugly as Khaki or Eau de-Nil.

Glaucous Eau de-Nil is satisfactory.

lavender shades make green eyes look greener...it's across the color whee, so creates contrast.

We had a nice chat about color here.

These look like two different shades of green, yet they are both Claridge's Eau de Nil dinnerware.

Vintage Dries Van Noten - Chartreuse Green Pink & Purple Rose Print Velvet Blouse

A different take on the power tie?

My torture chamber would be painted Puce, Dusty Pink & Peach.

Is that a Greek Revival Bungalow in r194?

Cute in a chartreuse suit.

Mr. Bean's classic Mini Cooper.

Chartreuse abuse? Or a crime against lime?

I think it can be very nice as an accent color in a black, white grey setting.

Chartreuse with a hint of green is ok but I don't like it with a yellow tinge.

Never could stand fuschia or pink.

I'm definitely getting a pair of these boots. LOL.

Chartreuse is one of colors of the peacock's plume ...

with those colors being paired in design.

I feel like this is a color people use when they want to be "edgy" in a safely conservative way.

No one really likes it.

Vile, wherever you put it.

No one says, "I love it...but does it come in CHARTEUSE??"

Hipsters would have an orgasm!

Imagine entering this room while tripping!

There should be a LAW against R212 !

r213 Interestingly, if you're somehow stuck with this color, orange seems to be a complimentary accent...

[quote][R213] Interestingly, if you're somehow stuck with this color, orange seems to be a complimentary accent...

These color combos are very late 1960s-early 1970s.

I mean with RESTRAINT, of course!

Very fresh lemony green, love it. Looks good in combination with rich blues or dark violets. Its a very Italian color, can be used in either modern or vintage décors.

Emilio Pucci could it to really great effect.

[quote] On November 13, 1961, at a State dinner honoring Puerto Rico's Governor and his wife, President Kennedy invited Spanish cellist Pablo Cassals to perform at the White House. Jackie wore a 3 piece evening ensemble in chartreuse silk faille by Oleg Cassini. Consisting of a beaded top, long skirt, and short jacket, Jackie once again stood out from the crowd with her choice of a vibrant color

It doesn't even look good on Jackie.

Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy, "Paris When It Sizzles," 1964.

I fear that it's about to make a fashion comeback!

Both Kim Kartrashian and Blake Lively were seen wearing neon chartreuse in one week, and neon chartreuse (or highlighter green) is the ugliest color in the world squared!

When my parents married in 1950, chartreuse must have been hugely popular. My mother used it as an accent color, along with lipstick red in her very Asian deep jade living room.

It’s best used as an accent color. Looks great with black and crimson. And yes, purple and lilac.

The chartreuse I remember was the color of the chair, not the lime or neon versions.

That's a stunning dress on NK @ R73.

She literally towers over TC, I am surprised he let her wear high heels next to him, he's such a midget.

R75 is far more appealing than r74. Chartreuse is a color that needs to coordinate.

The chartreuse wedding palette.

Peggy Fleming at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Some confuse chartreuse with fuschia.

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^^^ try this again.

You see it in UK football, since the goalkeeper is required to wear a different color and some form of green is very prevalent.

Can you imagine that The Queen would have anything in common......

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Not when Max is wearing it.

Now available at Nordstrom.

Chartreuse De La Mans, what a great name for a drag queen!

It is a heinous, rancid color.

Dog snood a la chartreuse. Neither heinous nor rancid.

That's not a snood, that's a neck gaiter.

THIS is a snood, and your Gay Card is currently under review!

It says "snood," asshole, so "snood."

I SO give a shit about your "gay card" whinings.

Aston Martin 2018 Vantage.

All colors are beautiful!

- Hillary

[quote] I've always disliked the red-oranges myself. I hate salmon pink, vermillion, coral, and tomato red for various reasons, but none of them are attractive colors, and none of them are flattering or work as décor.

"When I say 'orange,' I don't mean [italic]yellow[/italic]-orange, I mean [italic]red[/italic]-orange--the orange of Bakst and Diaghilev, the orange that changed the [italic]century.[/italic]" -- Diana Vreeland

I am sorry to tell you that Diana Vreeland is much, much more of an expert on color than you, sweetie.

Chartreuse is often found in Japanese cloisonne enamelware. It adds the right pop of brightness in a palette that's usually warm and deep (mustard, rust, browns and tans, deep turquoise, black). I particularly like it in Kintsugi pottery (broken pottery mended with gold) because of the electric contrast between the warm gold and the bright, neutral-temperature chartreuse.

Yesterday we went to Lake Erie. My best friend bought me a folding chair in chartreuse, one of my favorite colors. That's what best friends do.

R264 Learned it in Geisha school.

Blood plasma in the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage was depicted as a dark chartreuse, replete with lava lamp red blood cells in a complementary cotton candy pink. Very on trend for the era.

I often accent navy blue with chartreuse.

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