Who do we have to poke to get a better indication what "forest green" will look like?
Probably close to this:
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I would absolutely not assume or hope that's what it looks like. I know he's called it "forest green" but based on 100% of the evidence presented, it will be saturated green-green. Not forest green. The "burgundy red" is almost fire red / slightly orange. the renders look nothing like the anodized samples.
My guess is that he came up with the names and gave those to whoever was doing the renders - then he made a color swatch and gave that to the manu. We've wound up with two drastically different ideas of what the boards will look like, but all with the same (wrong) color names.
Just my two sense: the entire first two weeks of this GB has been people asking for
COHESIVE color samples. people aren't asking for white balanced/extremely color accurate samples, they're just asking for all of the colors to be as close to final and all laid out next to each other. I don't think it's an unreasonable request - I do think that ai03 has put in a bunch of hard work and is frustrated with what seems like "a small issue". Conversely, people are frustrated because they think something as simple as color samples should be a priority for any group buy.