The Original Paints of Pocket Planes
Pictured above is a photo from a screen recording I took on December 2021. At this point Pocket Planes had not received an update since February 2017, and wouldn't for about five months after I took that video.
I don't remember why exactly I took that video, probably just boredom, but it was just me cycling through the paints in the game, since back then to paint your planes there was a selection of 54 specific colours that you could choose from.
In a later update, though, they changed the system to now be a larger colour grid, and you can even type in specific RGB values by pressing the square on the preview.
Although this new system is better (or at least the specific RGB), I am a bit nostalgic for the older system. There was something kinda fun to scrolling through the individual colours, which actually had a pretty decent variety while not feeling overwhelming.
I haven't really played Pocket Planes in about a year, since I don't have much more I can really do in it, however I decided that I wanted to find what the specific colour values were from all those years ago.
The way I did this was actually by downloading an old .apk file of the game, and finding where the colours and their values were stores, which didn't take long at all with some simple ⌘F-ing. And so I made this handy chart!
PDF Version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_DhtO1nLekS1qsTD0NFqMKenOuVr0x24/view?usp=sharing
Making this chart was extremely fun! Both finding the colours and making this themed infographic for them. My absolute favourite part, though, was that showing them like this made me understand why these particular colours were chosen!
There's 54 colours in total, and they can all be separated into nine very clear groups, each with six colours. There's the shades of grey, and then eight different groups of hues from yellow to orange! They also switch from dark to light consistently so they form a very nice rhythm, especially noticeable when you actually scroll through them one at a time.
More importantly, however, it's just nice to have these very specific hues saved and catalogues somewhere, so now I (and you too!) can use them for your fleet.
