Talk:Puce

message: Instead of moving this to Wiktionary, someone could just expand this like the other color articles...
:Agreed
All right, what I did was copied the basic template for a color from another article and added it inside a remark () JD 03:28, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
Should the RBG for this be #961E42 it seems to match the description better then the current one. Lidden 18:15, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: "The mystery behind this colour involves its use in English as a sort of nonsensical-sounding colour name, much like chartreuse, a yellowish-green colour." <-- Does this sentence make little sense to anybody else but me? What mystery is being talked about here? And if people do use it in this fasion, maybe someone should give an example? Kidicarus222 05:48, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just removed that. It really didn't make any sense- first, I don't know where this "mystery" idea comes from, and second, does any color have a name that makes sense? Does green look "green"? I honestly can't believe this sentence was in the article for so long. -- Kicking222 03:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Huh?

message: ...Nuh-uh, it was not the magical element that made reindeer fly. What made reindeer fly was the magical element in lollipops which the elf (Dudley Moore) chose to color puce after that color was suggested by B.Z. the evil toy-manufacturer's assistant, Howser. The magical element which made reindeer fly was some kind of gold dust -- which was also then added to the puce colored lollipops which BZ gave for free to all the children in the world, to take over Christmas ("Santa Claus is finished!"). So now ya'll know. :-) 16:47, 26 August 2006 (CET)
*I remember the guy suggesting chartreuse...used the word.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.234.63 (talk) 23:35, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: The "Santa Claus" movie reference

message: sorry no account yet, I'll get one soon. Anyways, the hex code does not match with the RGB code, maybe triplet means that both digits have to be the same but I doubt it cuz that's kinda counterintuitive. Not sure which is correct, just though tI'd point it out.--70.137.159.77 07:05, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: hex triplet

message: In my experience, Puce has become somewhat of the one color that nobody knows about. This article briefly touches on it but I think can be more direct about it. Of course, it's my experience, has anyone else say, have a teacher quiz you on what color puce is? --70.137.159.77 07:14, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Silly Colors: The book Science Made Stupid allocated puce, along with such colors as mauve and ecru, to the Risible Spectrum. WHPratt (talk) 15:27, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

text: Popular culture: I think there was a Beetle Bailey comic strip wherein Sergeant Snorkel inspects the kitchen and sticks a paper star on the wall.  The chef had been hoping for gold or silver, but gets one in puce, and dubs it a "sarcastic" star or some such. WHPratt (talk) 17:12, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: modern day usage

message: one more reference to puce in earlier decades is on "The Woody Allen Special from September 21, 1969 - which was part of TV series called The Kraft Music Hall."87.70.198.152 (talk) 13:30, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  puce by woody alan 

message: In an episode of the 1960's American TV show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the protagonist, superspy Napoleon Solo, enters a fashionable women's clothing store while chasing an enemy agent.  The store clerk, a woman, asks something like "Can I help you with anything, Sir?"  He says "I'd like to see something in ... puce." She went off to check and Solo continued on.   That seemed SO sophisticated at the time.  None of us watching the show together knew what colour "puce" was, and we were duly impressed by such suaveness.70.130.199.233 (talk) 05:01, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Something in ... puce." by [[Napoleon Solo]] in [[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]] 

message: The TV shows from the UK are referred to as the either "the BBC TV series" or the "British TV series" but the US originated series are not referred to as "the FOX TV series", "CBS TV series" or even "US TV Series". Is there not a Wikipedia standard for references like this that can be used for consistency?
Oh and why are the TV series "Rise and fall of Reginald Perrin" referenced but not the original novel?82.43.131.168 (talk) 10:29, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Inconsistent approach to TV references

message: I did a little research trying to confirm my sources together. The more I search the less that colour seem defined. I concluded that puce is 50% saturation, 50% luminance in ANY hue but a small tendency toward 10° due to fleas color.
The most reliable sources I found suggest to ban that color name. I won't do any kind of OR on the main article, but I'm close to have enough sources.
One can search on colourlover ([]) to understand how undefined that color name really is. Iluvalar (talk) 22:24, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, Google images returns more of what's in the infobox than any other colour. The link you provide shows the both kinds. It's all probably okay. I don't really see to many other variants. Would you say calamine lotion is puce? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:14, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  This color is messed up 

message: An entry in List of colors: A–F contained a link to this page.
The entry is :
* Deep puce
An entry in List of colors: N–Z contained a link to this page.
The entry is :
* Puce red
I don't see any evidence that this color is discussed in this article (although there is an intriguing entry in the references) and plan to delete it from the list per this discussion: Talk:List_of_colors#New_approach_to_review_of_entries
If someone decides that this color should have a section in this article and it is added, I would appreciate a ping.--S Philbrick(Talk) 12:51, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible removal from list 

message: This article had an interesting discussion of "puce" as a concept, as something difficult to define and poorly understood, with a rich cultural history of uses.  Was it necessary to delete all that and reduce it to an RGB definition. Was it somehow unfair to other obscure color hues?  WHPratt (talk) 16:57, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gutted!