Brick Colors anyone?

[SeeYou190]

dknelson

There is quite a market for used brick it would appear.

Used brick is all the rage for high end rennovation projects down here.

-Kevin

[dknelson]

It isn't just colors, but textures and degrees of uniformity/variety in both color and formation of the brick that differ from example to example.  And note the different mortar colors as well.

From a time when most brick was local, and hence controlled by what was in the local clays, here in Milwaukee older buildings were "cream brick" (and Milwaukee was and sometimes is still called "The Cream City") which on the Hebron chart is closest to "Old Broadway" and "Speak Easy."  But from long decades of coal smoke and other pollutants, I remember cream brick buildings being a variety of grays, more like "Bourbon Street" on the Hebron chart, with only this or that brick still looking yellow-ish.  When those buildings started to be steam cleaned (or blasted with abrasive) in the 1970s-80s, sometimes the cream brick buildings took on a reddish color, perhaps due to chemicals in the cleaning?  But others returned to the original creamy yellow. 

There is quite a market for used brick it would appear.

Dave Nelson

[BroadwayLion]

From the Hebron Brick Company (in the next twon over from us.)

I thought you might be interested.

I bet you can copy these swatches as a bitmap and then with your publisher program make whole sheets of them.

 

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