I looked at my yoyo collection so far. Most of them are silver, black or blue. I tend to prefer those colors and only choose another when those colors are not available. I’m curious what your preferences are when choosing the colors, and what you might guess is the hardest color for stores to keep in stock…my guess would be black or blue. By the way…I hate green and don’t have any green yoyo out of over 50 yoyos. My preference in this order:
Silver natural stainless is best (I like natural metal and wood…why paint em?, plus flaws don’t look as bad in my opinion)
Black (my favorite next to silver, low key, classy, matches everything…but can be drab)
Blue (when none of the above available…or I want more color in the collection I choose this)
Red (always pretty to look at but kinda loud for my taste, yet I can still dig it with certain yoyo designs.
I should add that I have other colors just to make things more interesting at times, or when nothing else is available or the online store has a default to randomly select the color. I see this a lot with cheap yoyos…please comment.
I looked those up…nice ones, I rarely like the splash ones, but I have seen some I’d make exceptions for…I’m more of a solid color type. Splash do look cooler spinning sometimes though.
I’m pretty much like you. Solid blue is my first choice, then black, then silver. I also prefer solid colors to crazy splashes, solid colors just have a professional look to them, more like a new car than a toy. I heave a solid dark blue super g and I would get every yoyo in that color if I could.
I think the solid colors just look better I guess, just less “busy” and I find that they often splash with colors that don’t go well together. I want the yoyo to look good still, and unless it’s my light up freehand zero, I guess I don’t wanna see the colors blend while spinning (for me) Hard to explain I guess. But I’d never choose a splash if solid color is available. I’d buy that Harold owens Catalyst splash but only cause blue and gold are good colors separately that work well together. Others look tie dyeish to me. I guess liking the natural metal and wood…I’m more reserved style-wise I suppose. They look cool at times for others, but just not for me.
I like purple too, should be available more often. May be better than red, may have to change my opinion now hmmm.
By the way, I wonder if Mark Montgomery chose the color options for his signature Next, he must have, and brilliant decision. No color necessary really… I’m going to add that to the collection. But if you’re gonna do color…I like Andre’s Trinity cause of the wide array of solid color options for that yoyo. Also brilliant. Do all, or do nothing lol.
Some splash colors do not go together at all. Caribou Lodge on the other hand, always seem to find the perfect colors to put together in their splash and speckle colorways, and when they spin, it actually just looks like two separate colors on the yo-yo.
I might start buying solid colors now, though. I’m kind of interested in them now.
Some splash colors do not go together at all. Caribou Lodge on the other hand, always seem to find the perfect colors to put together in their splash and speckle colorways, and when they spin, it actually just looks like two separate colors on the yo-yo.
I might start buying solid colors now, though. I’m kind of interested in them now.
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Which paints better…white or clear?
I prefer blue and blue colors. If that’s not available, then black, white, metal/silver or grey. I also prefer solid colors as much as possible. I like nice, clean and simple without being overly busy.
I’m generally speaking not a big fan of multi-colors, splashes, speckles, splatters and acid washes. Of course, with CLYW, it makes no difference as they don’t do solid colors for the most part. The problem is that with the colorways, it’s really not that helpful to see them standing still. A video would be nice. My custom splash painted and modified FHZ looks amazing spinning. It’s silver with blue splash and when it’s spinning, it looks like it’s glowing blue. My other CLYW’s look better spinning than standing still. I think that was CLYW’s whole point.
There’s really no single “right” answer. It’s whatever individuals like. However, there are some colorways that are just too off-putting for my preferences. There are also some that go overboard with the graphics in my opinion.
Hmmm…I kinda dig white, until it gets dingy, it looks good. My only white yoyo is a YYJ Legacy with blue on the cap…looks good, but I haven’t dirtied it yet.
