Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Never heard of it before

It's a set of colors on a product. You know, the kind of thing you'd primitively describe as "the colors."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

"Colorway" is an extremely dumb term.

I don't know if I hate you for making me google that, and then getting my blood all angry, or love you for preparing me for the next thing that will get my blood all angry.

It's definitely going on ... the list.

 

[Deset Gled]

"Colorway" is an extremely dumb term.

I think this may be the first time I've ever heard it.

Then again, as a person with some background in optics, a bit of physics, and incomplete color vision, it's really hard for me not to dismiss most "color theory" as the equivalent of essential snake oil.

 

[prabe]

It's a set of colors on a product. You know, the kind of thing you'd primitively describe as "the colors."

Yarn, especially hand-dyed yard, frequently has a number of colors evident in it, and expressing that as a colorway with a name (such as the one my wife used for a scarf she knitted for me, "Bourbon Barrel") is likely to be more succinct and clearer to the end-user than "brown and tan and black with specks of blue." So, no, it's not a stupid word, nor is it a stupid concept.

 

[Scribe]

It's a set of colors on a product. You know, the kind of thing you'd primitively describe as "the colors."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Yarn, especially hand-dyed yard, frequently has a number of colors evident in it, and expressing that as a colorway with a name (such as the one my wife used for a scarf she knitted for me, "Bourbon Barrel") is likely to be more succinct and clearer to the end-user than "brown and tan and black with specks of blue." So, no, it's not a stupid word, nor is it a stupid concept.

Fair, but you'd still just use the brand name ("Bourbon Barrel"). Colorway isn't adding anything.

The names of colors are essentially arbitrary, as I always say when looking at 3,492,854 varieties of white/off-white paint.

I appreciate your comment, but I will continue to be disdainful of a term that simply seems to be "Colors on a product."


ETA- then again, my emotions run the gamut of the full spectrum ... all the way from disdainful to antipathy to burning hatred, so it's not that bad.

 

[overgeeked]

I wonder if knitter forums have a snarky thread where they complain about RPG jargon. They're probably too busy actually enjoying their hobby to care about RPG jargon.

The circle is now complete.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yarn, especially hand-dyed yard, frequently has a number of colors evident in it, and expressing that as a colorway with a name (such as the one my wife used for a scarf she knitted for me, "Bourbon Barrel") is likely to be more succinct and clearer to the end-user than "brown and tan and black with specks of blue." So, no, it's not a stupid word, nor is it a stupid concept.

Is the new Apple Watch covered in yarn?

 

[prabe]

Fair, but you'd still just use the brand name ("Bourbon Barrel"). Colorway isn't adding anything.

The names of colors are essentially arbitrary, as I always say when looking at 3,492,854 varieties of white/off-white paint.

I appreciate your comment, but I will continue to be disdainful of a term that simply seems to be "Colors on a product."


ETA- then again, my emotions run the gamut of the full spectrum ... all the way from disdainful to antipathy to burning hatred, so it's not that bad.

The brand name is usually who made--or at least dyed--the yarn; of course they need a way to differentiate the various sets of colors they have available. Colorway seems useful in context--and it's been in use at least since 1941, so it seems like an established usage.

 

[prabe]

Is the new Apple Watch covered in yarn?

Is it available in more than one set of colors?