Info Wanted: Title Color

Throughout the years, the opening title and crawl have appeared in variations of the same golden color. I’m curious if there is any consensus about what that color should be. There is the pale yellow of the old home video releases, there is the more vibrant yellow of the GOUT, there is the very goldenrod on the DVD and blu-rays, there is something more orange than yellow in some of the foreign releases. So what is the best color? I’m leaning to a yellow tinged with orange - about the color I like to see Threepio as. But are there any better guesses. I’ve never liked how dark they are in the DVD/BR releases (a lot of things about them are too dark).

That probably is the best source. After thinking about what I’ve seen in some of the copies and looking for a good solid area of color, I picked a frame at 0:00:49 (after the Episode VI, Return of the Jedi, and the first line of the crawl appears) and I took a chunk off the lower right of the N in Return and processed that with some blurring to even out the color, picked the center of the image and I got the RGB color 232, 198, 39 (Hex: #E8C627). Just from that little process I think it is still unclear what the specific color is, but that should be in the ball park. Another way would be to take points from multiple frames and multiple places in the frame and create an average. There might be some more automated tools that I am not aware of.

The only version of the logo that I’m aware that Mike Verta shared is on his website and isn’t very high quality. From that I got 255, 198, 45 (Hex: #FFC62D) from the lower side of the S in Star as that seemed to be the most even spot of color.

I’m really curious to see what color other people get.

doubleofive said:

I have fff200 on this.

That look closer to the GOUT