The colour of an Eurozone country

emmem · Post by **emmem** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 10:23 pm

bhoeyb wrote:
emmem wrote:To make things even more intresting. You can find a list of usable colornames here
Where do you find those crazy sites

Found it trough (look I’m not using thru

) Google. I remember having read somewhere that EBT uses JPGraph for generating it’s graphics. So I looked it up using the keywords Colorchart and JpGraph.

micro · Post by **micro** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 12:37 am

Try these links:

http://www.alleykatt.com/colors/coloremotions.htm
http://desktoppub.about.com/library/wee ... 03000a.htm
http://www.colorschemer.com/online/

My suggestion: Avoid white, black, and intense colours.

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 4:41 pm

pinguino79 wrote:I can only think about:

Green for Ireland
Orange for the Netherlands
Blue for France
Light blue for Italy

Yes, we are used to the dark blue (like on the drapeau tricolore)...

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 4:42 pm

iveohc wrote:I think the most common colors for Germany are White and Black, you can find it e.g. in the dress of our glorious football team

I would prefer black as i would give white to France (dunno why)

White was the colour of the kings, here... untill the revolution.

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 4:44 pm

Donald wrote:
iveohc wrote:...Luxemburg: no colour needed
...France: white
...Germany: black
I also feel obliged to express the opinion, that France should not be represented by neutral and indefinite white. AFAIK France and the Frenchmen, they are always very definite. Please give France a definite color.

Yes! dark blue with a yellow star!

Antti · Post by **Antti** » Wed Sep 25, 2002 3:02 pm

BLUE, BLUE, BLUE, BLUE!!!!

Why does everybody keep suggesting blue for every country

I'm just saying that the diagrams wouldn't look very good with 12 different shades of blue

. Or maybe not full twelve, but still far too many countries are associated with blue. For example 2/3 of the french flag is red and white, so why not a mixture of them(pink) for France

? Or some other as well, it's just easier to mix blue and red in my head than some other weird colourcombination. Or, most of the finnish flag is white, so why not white for us?

See, two countries cleared away and that took about two minutes for me, so it can't really be that difficult. But I don't know what will the french think of my suugested colour for them. But at least We'll get a good fight and I'll get to send lots of posts and get rid of this euro newbie -title.

Skylimit · Post by **Skylimit** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 8:34 pm

Yellow for Belgium
(The Color of Mayonaise)

bhoeyb · Post by **bhoeyb** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 9:53 pm

Skylimit wrote:Yellow for Belgium
(The Color of Mayonaise)

Yellow

Of mayonaise

Mine is almost white

Skylimit · Post by **Skylimit** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 12:19 am

Well, now I notice, the fresh date has been passed since 2 years .... OK, WHITE for Mayo.

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:31 am

Yellow for French fries? I find it remarkable that French fries are significant to Belgium

Tiger · Post by **Tiger** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 11:49 am

yeah

dunno why everyone calls them 'french' fries...
probably some stupid american who didn't know the difference

Let's just call'em FRITTEN

(or 'frieten' in non-dialect)

Skylimit · Post by **Skylimit** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 2:17 pm

Donald wrote:remarkable that French fries are significant to Belgium

There used to be a time when only Belgian "French" Fries tasted good.
I must say this has changed the last 10 years. They taste great everywhere now (but best in Belgium)

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:24 pm

I find this topic quite important. So.. *pop*

Really those diffusion statistics would be far more useful if the colours would be readable. Currently the different shades of red and yellow are completely unused. You could also add some darker shades of the current colours, as long as the biggest countries would be kept happily bright :)

And colouring the countires by their flags is extra. Main point is that the colours shouls be changed from what they are now. I think I could make a nice little colorchart about this if I remember and bother.