Why did TLG change Technic Parts Colors?

[Lipko]

Whilst I may have expressed my dislike for colour vomit before I do do not remember specifically saying that proposal for less intrusive colours before but if I have please accept my (in)sincere apologies and no, it's not whining. Hey, I got my longer pneumatics didn't I, that look very suspiciously like my design that I proposed so who says you can't change anything. You are such a pessimist .

Maybe I'm afraid that you will whine away my precious color vomit

[Erik Leppen]

I wish the new pneumatic cylinders would have been a more neutral color, e.g. gray. The yellow clashes with everything. And unlike pins, these are not small parts. ;)

Same goes for the blue tubing, however this is usually hidden deeper in a model.

Then they could have used e.g. orange for the small pump, because that's also usually somewhere very deep inside a model.

[barman]

(off-topic) I think that designers used black pins in purpose of sliding boom smoothly.

This is not exactly true. The blue pins are 2.9 studs long, so they would fit perfect within 3 liftarms. The problem is that it only has 1 ring. The ring makes it fit perfectly between 2 liftarms, but the last part of the 3L pin only has a small friction bubble. That is why the last liftarm slides over to far. If you use Technic bricks this problem is (almost) gone. Liftarms are just a bit hinner than Technic bricks.

To come back on topic.

I think that some people already did a fine explaination why parts are color coded. Most colors divine a group of parts (light gray in axles stands for uneven lentghs), makes it easier to build, recognize and sort-out the parts.

I understand the topic question. Most adult builders like the old color style: gray gears and black axles and pins. This makes for a much better model to look at. All the color coding make it look like a very colorful toy instead of a (scale) model.

It took me some time to get used to the new colors in the beginning, but now I have no problems with it. It does make building and sorting a lot more easy. Yes it makes the model look very colorful, but is has a certain attraction