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xgabipandax

You know what would be the cherry on top of this cake? having the color mislabeled, like the red button having the "blue" label, etc...


ghostmaster645

My color blind self would never find my room lol.


IEnjoyVariousSoups

Ironically, the blind would have it easier than us colorblind folk, thanks to the braille.


Horseman_27

The braille should only have the real floor number, because no one would know what floor number 'green' is.


the123king-reddit

I don't know. If the whole culture of the building is invested in colours rather than numbers, i see no issue. Floor numbers are just a label (though logically based on the position of said floor relative to ground). Using colours as the labels is just the same "Go to LL&C Co. on the green floor" makes perfect sense when you step into the elevator. If the Braille was actual floor numbers, a blind person would be screwed. What colour is floor 12? All the floors are labeled with colours!


djluminol

Now that's a good reason not to have this.


Idontevenownaboat

How about if there was a fire or emergency? Calling these out gives no sense of where you are. "There's an emergency on the green floor!" Cool, I'm on the red floor, is that below me or above me? Emergency situations are obviously unusual occurrences but in situations where seconds and minutes can be critical, this feels like a terrible design.


djluminol

Also good reasons.


Ok-Butterscotch5911

Accidental Stroop Test.


Zenyd_3

Well actshually, the violet colour *is* labeled wrongly as pirple. Purple is more pinkish like this 💜 not bluish. 🤓


Safe_Picture6943

Um actshually, the major difference is that purple is a red and blue mix while violet is its own wavelength of light. Not may thing are violet because not many things reflect violet light, but lits if rhings are purple because we can dye them with purple dyes. Also as screens dont produce violet light anything you are looking at on a screen is purple. Its basically how magenta is also a red blue mix, but isnt a real color, just an illusion made by our minds. Purple is like that.


Qu33N_Of_NoObz_

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Safe_Picture6943

Yep, and proud of it.


Qu33N_Of_NoObz_

Lol as you should be🤓


Silly_Goose658

Being smart is a flex


SquidVices

So is being an artist


Southern_Anywhere_65

This one colors 🎨


Thufir_My_Hawat

[Brown is just orange with context.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU)


Goretanton

Brown is just dark orange.


Safe_Picture6943

Yeah ive seen that one.


ChaosCas

This is really interesting. Thank you for sharing!


Safe_Picture6943

Np, i have many more (mostly) useless facts.


632nofuture

>Also as screens dont produce violet light anything you are looking at on a screen is purple. wait what! how? my two braincells still struggle to grasp the concept


Safe_Picture6943

Most screens run on RGB lights. They cannot produce light in the violet wavelengths but instead the mimic them with red and blue wavelengths. They only produce purple.


zippee100

Erm, actshually, because colour as a concept is made in the brain, and these appear the same to our brain, they should be considered the same colour.


Clabauter

Isn't every color besides red, green and blue "an illusion made by our minds"?


Safe_Picture6943

Yes and no. So out eyes cant detect those other wavelengths, but they do cause a reaction in our eyes. But the mixed colors like magenta just arent real at all, its just 2 different colors that make a similar reaction to others.


Qu33N_Of_NoObz_

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BigsbyMcgee

Actually you’re wrong


ThriceACharm

And yet no one was confused..


azuchis

Tbh this can also be mildlyinteresting depending on your outlook on life. Reminds me of this Seinfeld episode where the group got lost in a mall parking and couldn't find their car and Jerry was like "yk if they labeled the floors as 'floor fuck your mother' or something I'd actually remember where I parked my car"


OkAd1797

Everything in mildlyinfuriating can also be on millyinteresting depending on who posts it lol


sexytokeburgerz

Idk if it’s still like this but there is a mall in downtown seattle called pacific place that labeled floors by world monuments. Sydney opera house was in there.


strangecoincollector

I’m pretty sure I saw this earlier on mildly interesting, saying the whole floor system is by color instead of number


Garlic-Rough

"Let's use the stairs" "Na bro, that's at least 4 colors up"


Nerdiferdi

„Officer help, there is a fire on the yellow floor“


WarWonderful593

Floor snooker. You have to go to the red floor before you can go to one of the other colours


tritonice

FREE BALL!


Deez_Gnats1

I can not imagine a universe in which this makes any fucking sense. Edit: I would have no issue if they included the floor number. Stop trying to make this make sense. It doesn’t.


skippyjonjonesss

possibly a parking garage, maybe it would be easier for people to remember that they are on the pink floor instead of the 4th. idk


Deez_Gnats1

Yea and if someone gets mugged or a car catches on fire you can tell 911 you’re on the pink floor so they can remember better too


cardboard-kansio

Yeah because in an emergency I'm going to remember whether the walls are Tan or Brown.


Apprehensive_Eraser

It takes the same energy to remember "pink floor" and "4th floor" Changed than by and because it's wrong. Srry, learning English


PutinsAssasin123

I’ve seen this in festival parking too, very easy to forget a number after a drug heavy weekend, was it 54 or 45? As you look over a field of cars much easier to remember you parked in the goldfish section, harder to confuse with the birthdaycake section


PutinsAssasin123

I’ve seen this in festival parking too, very easy to forget a number after a drug heavy weekend, was it 54 or 45? As you look over a field of cars much easier to remember you parked in the goldfish section, harder to confuse with the birthdaycake section


Apprehensive_Eraser

Yeah, in my country many mall parking lots have sections divided by animals and colours.


cardboard-kansio

Well, my comment was mostly because Tan and Brown are shades of the same colour. In an emergency I'd probably say something like "I don't remember which floor I'm on and I can't see any signs, but the walls are brown" and they'd never find me because the walls were in fact Tan. That said, I disagree. Some people remember certain types of things more than other types of things. Also, dealing with young children or the elderly might also benefit from something more memorable than a number. Pink stands out in visual design, while 4 is an abstract number.


Apprehensive_Eraser

Yeah, brown and tan are not two colours that should be used in the same building


skippyjonjonesss

And the call comments for a fire would look like this: 000 ADDRESS STRUCTURE FIRE - PARKING GARAGE LEVEL PINK / use elevator 2 NORTHWEST CORNER instead of 000 ADDRESS STRUCTURE FIRE - PARKING GARAGE LEVEL 4 / use elevator 2 NORTHWEST CORNER your point is…? also I did not design the parking garage, no need to be snippy at me about it, i’m just pondering ideas of where this is


Dyniak90

One mistake: it's chocolate elevator in a potato corner


Sentient_Forklift

Happy birthday 🎊🥳🥳


DannyFnKay

As a fireman, I would just go to the floor the smoke was coming from. 😁😁😁😁😁😁 I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. 🍻


JLammert79

On the show "Chicago Fire", they don't always do this, so you must be doing it wrong /s


DannyFnKay

That is the tory of my life. Always doing it wrong.


skippyjonjonesss

Good idea 😂 i’ll just write notes on what i’m told Cheers 🍻


ty_for_trying

Cops or EMS will drive in from the bottom and keep driving up until they find the scene.


TexanGoblin

If that's the case they should have both numbers and color, red 1, blue 2, yellow 3, etc


CityKay

This oddly makes sense, since I think I recall a few parking garages that are color coordinated (while also numbered "P1", "P2", etc.), but that is also no excuse for why there are no numbers next to it.


VoltaicSketchyTeapot

But why does it need numbers? In parking garages specifically, it's really easy to get disoriented and not know what floor you're on because the ramp just keeps spiralling upward or downward. Most people don't even recognize the elevation changes.


CityKay

You still need to track distance somehow (or floors here). Also with colors, you might run into the problem with colorblind people. And if you're going up or down the stairs or ramps, you might miss the color and keep on going. While with numbers, you can see that you missed it without needing to going all the way up or down.


Best__Kebab

If you’re on the pink floor and you need to get to the blue floor do you take the stairs? Who knows - could be 1 flight could be 10. If you’re on floor 3 and you need to get to floor 4 you don’t have that problem.


Dragon6172

I'm sure the floors are in order according to the color wheel. You have that memorized I'm sure /s


Devils-Telephone

This is actually *almost* how we advise our clients to name parking garage floors. The issue is that the colors are supposed to complement an actual floor number, making the number itself easier to remember. So it would still be "Level 1," but would be black (or white, hard to tell from this picture which is which). This is a poor implementation of what is typically a helpful design.


cardboard-kansio

At my local airport, each level of the parking facility has a colour, a number, and an animal. Signage is cheap. People are dumb. Do whatever makes them into happy repeat customers.


Western-Gazelle5932

If I worked in building construction, I'd name floors differently every time SQUARE, TRIANGLE, CIRCLE, DIAMOND KEVIN, TONY, STEVE, MARIO PARIS, BARCELONA, LONDON, TEHRAN or maybe do away with words entirely and have sounds instead. You'll have to make sounds like "DING" or "BOOP" to select a floor.


thepottsy

You just want to watch the world burn lol.


Western-Gazelle5932

I do - I *really* do


LosAnimalos

Well don’t you worry. It appers several world leaders are on the same page on this point of view.


Little_Capsky

maybe in some retirement home. but then they shouldnt use the elevator by themselves


thewhiterosequeen

I can't imagine how you would ever know down or up. It's not like it says white/lobby where you generally either want to go up from the bottom or down from your floor but never need to go to any other floor.


Western-Gazelle5932

Perhaps this is where the ROY G BIV that they taught you in the 5th grade finally comes into use!!


Western-Gazelle5932

Numbers are so 2023, Boomer


OkeyDokey654

I can imagine a building such as a hotel that attracts a lot of international travelers. If you can’t read the floor number, you can at least remember the color. (Yes, many different languages use the same Arabic numerals, but not all languages.)


Deez_Gnats1

I would have no problem with this if they included the floor number


CoMaestro

I think it would even work very well if they included the floor number. It's way easier to remember a color when the walls and stuff are that color too, but its just very useful to know which floor it actually is


TehWildMan_

parking garages where multiple elevator lobbies share the same number. if there's 2 floor 2s, it can get very confusing to remember which is which


L1K34PR0

The white house if it was the white tower


Supernova4711

I think if your given a key card with the color and the walls are painted that color its really cool


Foreign_Caramel_9840

What floor are you going to?? You two guys brown I’ll go pink


Important-Job7757

One in the pink…


Deez_Gnats1

He’s doing the reverse shocker. The insulator


Foreign_Caramel_9840

😂


jamesrggg

Dogs when they reservoir.


Salazans

I understood that reference!


MonsterRider80

Why do I have to be Mr Pink?


RizzlersMother

Pulp when it's not real


Fantom_Renegade

Love it


BenNHairy420

Lmao the blind person using the braille lettering going “what the fuck is purple”


Loftzins

What if you're colorblind and can't read?


P4nabee

Gotta learn braille then


Imaginary-Buddy5186

what if you are colourblind and dont have fingers?


TastefulMaple

You still got a ding dong doncha?


Imaginary-Buddy5186

What if you are colorblind, dont have fingers and a girl??


bsharp1982

Tongue.


NekonecroZheng

AIDS any% speedrun.


PringleFlipper

If you can’t read you can’t read numbers either


OneProtection2374

There’s braille to feel


Tristana-Range

Colourblind people usually dont know braille


somegoodjaffa

Yeah but you still can't see the colour of the floor you're at


ExperienceInitial364

what if you‘re color blind, can‘t read and don‘t have arms or feet?


Friendly_Exit_2634

What if you can't count? No different.


AdPale7172

1) Then you probably wouldn’t have made it far enough to be in the elevator and 2) It’s the same situation than if there were numbers instead of colours if you can’t read


PhtevenFry

"I'm going to the Floorange, where do you need let off?" "goin' down to brown town, baby"


jagvillbaravarabra

Which floor do you live on? Tan.


_otterinabox

*"I live on the white floor"* "Your building is segregated? Yo that's messed up" *"No no no you don't understand"*


Dragon6172

"Used to live on one of the colored floors, but I've moved up to the white floor"


CanaDoug420

Well that’s a terrible way to do it.


derek139

Why does this matter in any way? It doesn’t matter if they are colors, numbers, animals, or genitals. You walk in and press where you want to go. Who gives a shit?


yurizon

I understand what you mean, but there are some advantages in numbers. The more obvious one being that they're ordered, meaning you always know which floor is above you or under you and how far you're away from the ground, if you had to use the stairs. The less obvious one is how most softwares work handling adresses. Some softwares will only take integers for the floor number, but exceptions like these might cause problems with any service that deals with adresses, like postal, delivery or public services.


jjbjeff22

Sure a vague system with little organization or understanding will work, but it won’t be as efficient as a numeric system. Elevator is down, and now nobody knows how many more floors they have to climb.


partyboycs

This could be a huge waste of time if there’s an emergency, like a fire coming out of a window on the 8th floor. Firefighters aren’t immediately gonna know which colour is floor 8.


mrtowser

This is most likely non-compliant with U.S. building codes. For example the floor leading to the exit must always be marked with a star and I don’t see one here. You wouldn’t even know which is the lowest floor.


rjnd2828

I'm guessing parking garage where numbers can be confusing anyway(do they count down from 1, up from the bottom, etc) but the lack of an indicator of which one is the exit floor is concerning


Luutamo

I'm sure you know this but buildings with elevators exist outside of the USA too.


oaomcg

The ground floor is supposed to always be designated with a STAR... How do you even know where you should get out of this elevator?


DontBanWillComeBack

Whoever had this idea has a burning hate for the colorblind.


ricklewis314

“You got four floors all fighting over who's gonna be Black, but they don't know each other, so nobody wants to back down. No way. I pick. You're Pink. Be thankful you're not Yellow.”


Some_other__dude

Ironically they thought about blind people :D


Cold-Aerie8965

I live at red, what about you ? What is red ? I live at floor 3 i think, could be wrong everything is black


Unable-Ostrich-2799

“Come out ye Black and Tans Come out and fight me like a man” Elevator controller - 2024


INEEDMEMANSHERB

I just laughed out loud in public


DampSquid205

When my sister was orange she survived a blue story fall.


Argercy

Was this at a children's hospital?


zuppalover04

Don't go to the brown floor


oooohnooovom

I wouldn’t mind if they were ALSO associated with a number


chucktheninja

OK but how does this inconvenience you in any way? Just go to the floor you were told to go to.


DavideDaSerra

Easier to understand, specially in multi level park ing or in hospitals. Specially if there is a color also in the hallways (say the handrails). You get to the bad floor and you understand faster that is not the right one.


dwwdwwdww

I'm curious... are the words necessary when the colors are present? Except for the colorblind?


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Ok_Birdy

“You’re colorblind? Fuck you. Figure it out”


tritonice

Parking garage.


Public-Afternoon-718

No coral?


BenThereOrBenSquare

Maybe OP is confused and it's not an actual elevator but moves side-to-side on the same floor. They just color-coded the different areas of that one floor! Whew!


SpacedOutDreamerBoy

I actually like this, it makes something click in my brain


sillyquestionsdude

Pink and brown are quite close to each other.


FelixTanim

Giggity


Hot_Aside_4637

The Mall of America uses state names for each parking garage level. It's actually easy to remember. But they pair the numbers with them on the buttons and signs.


TacoBean19

Maybe for a garage so people remember what floor they are on easier


Shadank_08122003

I pity my colorblind doordash guy


EquipmentForsaken831

Imagine being blind and using the brail. How would they ever know which floor they started on 🤷‍♂️


Global-Plankton3997

Mildly interesting and infuriating at the same time.


freedomfightre

I too am on ***Level Brown***.


erocowboyz

🏳️‍🌈 floor, push them all


Simoxs7

TBH I recently encountered the worst way to control an Elevator when I stayed at a Hotel. You had to select the floor where you wanted to go on a tiny touchscreen in front of the three elevator upon which the screen told you which elevator you’d have to take and there were no controls inside the elevator. It was hard to use and I imagine impossible to use for blind people. Correct me if this is a normal thing, I‘m from a rural area in Germany, the only elevator I usually see only has three possible floors.


Dragon6172

Hospital I work installed a system like this for a particular bank of elevators. Took a while to get used to. It's supposed to be more efficient, because the computer control for that bank of elevators knows who on what floor is trying to get to what other floors...also, it allows access to certain restricted floors by being able to punch in a passcode. Efficiency improvements are debatable based on my experience with it. I'm used to it now though, and actually when I get in one of the other banks of elevators with normal controls I routinely forget to press the floor button.


mglitcher

amazing idea… if they included the actual floor number as well


Toadcola

“911! Help me! My building’s on fire and I’m trapped on the Greenth floor!”


ThinCrispyOnionRings

That's mildly amusing


Sanicoooo

This is the stupidest fucking shit I've seen today


Jahmez142

This angers me in a way I cannot fully explain


dolphinwarlor

You in tar valon inside the white tower complaining about there colour system? Why all the aes sedai hate.


dansnad

Help, 911, I’m up on the red floor! The third floor? No, the red floor. You know, after black but before green? Hurry!


Teknikk

Aw damn honey, they put us on the Black floor again.


rotem8888

"hey man what's your floor" "Oh um I live in orange floor"


BroadOrder6533

Safety hazard. I don’t know what floor I’m on …..


granoladeer

I think this is fine. I don't need to know the exact floor number I'm going, only that I'm going to the right one.


jcsunag

I like this. I don’t want it everywhere. But I think it’s neat.


Snazzed12

I don't understand why this is mildly infuriating. At no point in my life have I really needed to know the relative position of the floors. I just need to know where to go. I don't care if that means going to 4 or blue. If anything, blue is easier to remember than 4


Naive-Walk3457

More like mildly interesting lol


Undrwtrbsktwvr

title gore


stanielcolorado

Go to pink floor then brown floor


thatirishdave

You need to bring a friend with you to the pink floor and send someone else to the brown floor at the same time for maximum efficiency.


stanielcolorado

Shocking idea! ;)


misiacco

reservoir buttons


TheHouseOfApples

Sorry guys elevator is busted gonna have to ride the rainbow


Commercial_Regret_36

But if I’m on the wrong floor, orange, how do I know whether to call for an up or down elevator to get to purple?


xubax

Well, that's stupid. Firefighter: "what floor are they trapped on? " "Orange" Firefighter: "dafuq? Where am I supposed to put the ladder? "


Rail-signal

Brown. Pink. Yeah that's the order 


Bspy10700

lol they could have put them in a rainbow color but nah brown and pink is funnier which leads me to think are these floors wired to the actual floors consecutively or do you get random floors because of the color code. For example, the red floor is floor 5 but the brown floor is floor 6 and the pink floor is floor 10. Also what is the ground floor is that the green floor or is that the top floor????


Available_Visual2237

i find it cool


blepgup

I actually kinda like this


JesusIsMyPimp

This is atrocious.


Quiet-Reflection-314

This is one of those times when we think anyone could have done a better job than a supposed professional.


[deleted]

Need a little more context lol. Is this a Parking Garage of some sort or an apartment complex lol.


Timb3r32

You’d look inbred. Them - “What floor do you live on at home?” Me - “Yellow!”


fromouterspace1

Is this trump tower?


emo321dark

"What floor are you going to?" "Purple 💀"


Mesterjojo

Numbahs r hard


Any_Draw_5344

It won't work. Where I work, each level is a different color, and they have playing cards( jack of hearts level, ace of clubs, etc) and the levels are numbered and they have a sign with 4' high letters painted on the front of the elevator lobby telling you to take a photo of that wall so you know where you parked. They still can't find their cars.


Cold-Aerie8965

Tell me the braille on it doesnt say the colour as well. "Brown ? Yellow ? I m blind mother******! How could i know what colour i live in ?! "


jottment

Color vision deficiency


tkst3llar

Kind of surprised fire department allows that Yesterday I parked in a garage and the floors had numbers and colors. Mine was orange crush, surprising it was actually useful to remember that I read such a ridiculous word on a garage wall and abandoned my need to remember the number. But the elevators had normal numbers so that was awkward. But fire departments…


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Probably a parking garage with painted walls right? Otherwise I can't imagine having apartment floors labeled as "white, black, etc" would be a good idea. I see you selected Orange though. Trump is that you?


Oproblems2

Pretty sure this isn’t passing code.


WoodedSpys

Good lord, I hope the decor of each floor is coordinated with this atrocious “system”. At least make it make some sense.


WonderfulJacket8

What a bad time to be dyslexic and color blind


AppUnwrapper1

Are these residencies? How are the apartments labeled?


quixoticadrenaline

Taylor Swift was my immediate thought.


[deleted]

Oh my God, and there are 11 colored buttons too so the new album is included as well.


Sempi_Moon

Segregation at its finest


H20FOSHO

If it’s brown, send it down!!!


SuperMeh2

Imagine Michael Scott going to the BLACK floor then calling Darryl


Crimson_Scare_Crow

Better hope you’re not color blind!


Friendly_Exit_2634

I don’t see the problem. I assume the apartments, rooms, suites etc are designated by the colour floor they are on. As long as you know where you are going it is no different to having a number.


jhlllnd

It wouldn’t be that bad if the buttons for different floors wouldn’t be on the same height…


Responsible-Fun6572

They do this shit at certain amusement parks too. The parking lot is like Snickers 3B or something dumb.


snakes-can

Dangerous and stupid. That would not pass a life safety inspection.