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Imagine Steve and Bucky saying “yes” to Pantone making a “Blue-cky Barnes” color as long as the benefits go to charity.
Imagine the poor Pantone people sending color proof after color proof to color-nerd-and-bucky-driven!Steve. And Steve… Steve is not seeing it, they are never even close, but how could they? That color changes by the minute.
“It’s never going to happen,” he says to Bucky after the first fifteen samples. And he frowns and sends notes on every attempt they make while Bucky is exasperated and more than a little embarrassed.
Until one morning, they get the new color proof and Steve does not TOTALLY frown when he opens the envelope. He might leave the coffee cup on the counter without taking his eyes off the paper as he takes a closer look and even raise half an eyebrow in pseudo approval. Bucky notices, of course, and that’s enough for him to take over that damned correction pen and put an end to the poor Pantone!people’s misery.
Color Proof #3: Rejected by Steve Rogers
Color Proof #12: Rejected by Steve Rogers
Color Proof #57: Rejected by Steve Rogers
Color Proof #65: Rejected by Steve Rogers
Color Proof #87: No deep frown from Steve Rogers, approved by a very tired and embarrassed James Barnes
PANTONE 107-B: Blue·cky Barnes. Final Color.
