I don't think I've ever seen so many brown robes together in one place. It's like a showroom for the world's dullest textile factory.
— Ben Skywalker, mocking the Jedi Order's tendency to wear brown-hued clothing for this very reason
"The next time you see some casual gamer tapping away at their Nintendo DS, show them a screenshot of Gears of War. Don't be shocked if they point out your game seems made up of three colors (brown, gray, and muzzle flash). Sure, hard-core gamers know the difference, they know the game is a marvel of technology."
"So I visited historic Over There. Don't be fooled by the old-timey photograph- the place really looks like that. Like, everything is tan and brown. The sky? Tan. And the streets are paved with a little different shade of tan."
— Strong Bad on his vacation
"The only "Wonder of Thedas" is how everything got so very brown."
"Kirkwall's not brown enough for me, but hey! No Darkspawn!"
— Hawke, Dragon Age II
There's not a single primary color in this movie, only dingy washed-out sepia tones. I know, I know: He's trying to demystify the West, and all those other things hotshot directors try to do when they don't really want to make a Western. But this movie... is so smoky, so dusty, so foggy, so unfocused, and so brownish yellow that you want to try Windex on the screen.
— Roger Ebert on Heaven's Gate
IT'S BROWN! Every color in this comic is BROWN! You might as well have dragged a bunch of blank pages through mud, because you would have gotten the same effect as these comics!
— Linkara on the Silent Hill Comics.
Any one who thinks that the world is just orange and blue has never looked out a frigging window and seen how many colors there are in the real world and how well you can see them!
— Linkara
"Holy Color Explosion, Batman! Did a Crayola factory explode nearby? I'd forgotten what video games looked like before the 2003 Color Palette Standardization Act outlawed all colors in titles outside shades of gray and brown."
, Batman! Did a Crayola factory explode nearby? I'd forgotten what video games looked like before the 2003 Color Palette Standardization Act outlawed all colors in titles outside shades of gray and brown.""I long for the sweet peace of the pasture... but the bright colors of the world taunt me!
Why must all things be so bright? Why can things not appear only in hues of brown!
I am so serious about this!
Dull colors are the future!
...The next generation!"
Why must all things be so bright? Why can things not appear only in hues of brown!
I am so serious about this!
Dull colors are the future!
...The next generation!"
— Bullet Bull, Super Paper Mario
"What's this foolishness? You know the dirt harvest is about to come in! Without our constant efforts the planet would be consumed with rampant greenery. Flowers! Trees! ANARCHY!"
— Chan, Hsu and Chan
"Guild Wars (Prophesies campaign) is a detailed study in the color brown. It has dark brown trees on light brown hilltops overlooking tan valleys filled with beige pools of water surrounded by mud-colored monsters."
— Shamus Young, author's notes on Stolen Pixels #5
"That standard Vertigo palette of brown, red and different brown."
— Al Kennedy, House to Astonish, "1-800-ASTONISH"
"The skies are brown. The air is brown. The mood is brown. Welcome to Beigeing".
"We were working on Skyrim and went back to Fallout, and we said 'Wow, we were really into brown.'"
— Developer Todd Howard on Fallout 3.
Fantastic Four seems almost deathly allergic to colour. The film is dark and grim and desaturated. There are lots of browns and greys and blacks; the only blues that appear for extended periods of time are so dark as to practically be black. There are brief flashes of green, but even those are tightly regulated. There is apparently only so much colour that a frame of Fantastic Four can support. This aesthetic works well for characters like Batman or the X-Men, but it is ill-suited to characters who thrive in colour, like Superman or the Fantastic Four.
"The graphics in Sonic Generations have problems. They use a lot of colors. This isn't how you do modern video games. In modern video games, you're supposed to use browns, greens, and greys. You don't use all these colors. But look at this, there's yellows and blues and reds and oranges and all these bright colors everywhere! And it hurts!"
The basic colour for a practical nome's clothes is mud. That was common sense. Grimma knew fifty ways of making dyes from wild plant and they all yielded a colour that was, when you came right down to it, basically muddy. Sometimes yellow mud, sometimes brown mud, sometimes even greenish mud but still, well, mud. Because any nome who ventured out wearing jolly reds and blues would have a life expectancy of perhaps half an hour before something digestive happened to him.
