Why so many control rooms were seafoam green

2026-04-06 20:37

“What caught my eye as a designer, as with most industrial plants and control rooms of that time, besides the knobs, levers, and buttons, was the use of a very specific seafoam green***,*** seen here on the reactor’s walls and in the control panel room.”

An image of a control room in a nuclear reactor. The focus is on one of the control desks, which is essentially an entire wall taken up with various analog controls and dials. The wall is painted a distinctive sea-foam green color… a kind of light blue-y green

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