Peter Smyth" wrote
"D7666" wrote
Can anyone tell me the *correct* HEX colour codes - if there are
any
defined - for each LU line that could used in HTML ?

Note for uk.railway comedians - HEX here means hexadecimal *not*
Heathrow Express.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/...rdsIssue02.pdf
should have what you need.

Do the line colours have official names? I'm captain of my local pub
quiz team and we sometimes get asked what colour is such-and-such a
line, but then we get into silly arguments e.g.is the Central Line
red, or orange? Red presumably, because it's the same as 'corporate
red'. But what about the Waterloo & City Line - turquoise, or pale
green?

John Salmon wrote:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/...rdsIssue02.pdf

The red colours for congestion charging (page 5.2) and East Thames Buses
(5.3) are clearly different, yet they give the same hex values.

I've just noticed that CMYK codes only ever use three colours, never all
four. Which is obvious when you think about it.

John Salmon wrote:
Peter Smyth" wrote
"D7666" wrote
Can anyone tell me the *correct* HEX colour codes - if there are
any defined - for each LU line that could used in HTML ?

Note for uk.railway comedians - HEX here means hexadecimal *not*
Heathrow Express.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/...rdsIssue02.pdf
should have what you need.

Do the line colours have official names? I'm captain of my local pub
quiz team and we sometimes get asked what colour is such-and-such a
line, but then we get into silly arguments e.g.is the Central Line
red, or orange? Red presumably, because it's the same as 'corporate
red'. But what about the Waterloo & City Line - turquoise, or pale
green?

The names are given on page 12 of the 201-page London Underground signs
manual at
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/...al_Dec2003.pdf
as follows:

Central: red
Victoria: light blue
District: green
Circle: yellow
Metropolitan: magenta
Bakerloo: brown
East London: orange
Hammersmith & City: pink
Northern: black
Piccadilly: dark blue
Waterloo & City: turquoise
Jubilee: light grey

(The names above are all prefixed by Underground, thus "Underground
light blue" for the Victoria line.)

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

John Rowland wrote:
John Salmon wrote:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/...rdsIssue02.pdf

The red colours for congestion charging (page 5.2) and East Thames Buses
(5.3) are clearly different, yet they give the same hex values.

Yup. Because they give different Pantone colours for both, whereas the
other colours are the same for both.

Cheers,

Barry

"Richard J." wrote
John Salmon wrote:
Peter Smyth" wrote
"D7666" wrote
Can anyone tell me the *correct* HEX colour codes - if there are
any defined - for each LU line that could used in HTML ?

Note for uk.railway comedians - HEX here means hexadecimal *not*
Heathrow Express.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/...rdsIssue02.pdf
should have what you need.

Do the line colours have official names? I'm captain of my local
pub
quiz team and we sometimes get asked what colour is such-and-such
a
line, but then we get into silly arguments e.g.is the Central Line
red, or orange? Red presumably, because it's the same as
'corporate
red'. But what about the Waterloo & City Line - turquoise, or pale
green?

The names are given on page 12 of the 201-page London Underground
signs manual at
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/...al_Dec2003.pdf
as follows:

Central: red
Victoria: light blue
District: green
Circle: yellow
Metropolitan: magenta
Bakerloo: brown
East London: orange
Hammersmith & City: pink
Northern: black
Piccadilly: dark blue
Waterloo & City: turquoise
Jubilee: light grey

(The names above are all prefixed by Underground, thus "Underground
light blue" for the Victoria line.)

Interesting - thanks. On Wednesday I gave 'silver' as the colour for
the Jubilee line and this was 'correct', although I see it's
officially 'light grey'.
We still won our match with the highest score of the night - see:
http://mysite.orange.co.uk/retfordquiz/

On 22 Jul, 09:41, "John Salmon" wrote:

Interesting - thanks. On Wednesday I gave 'silver' as the colour for
the Jubilee line and this was 'correct', although I see it's
officially 'light grey'.
We still won our match with the highest score of the night - see:http://mysite.orange.co.uk/retfordquiz/- Hide quoted text -

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It's disappointing that it's officially recorded as light grey - given
that the line was named in honour of Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee,
it's fairly obvious what the intent was when choosing the colour. The
fact that it was arguably the best available colour for contrast with
all existing lines was serendipity.

OK, here's a question. If (and it's a big if) an additional line is
opened at some future point, what colour will provide maximum contrast
with all existing lines.

(Pratchett fans may NOT nominate octarine.)

Steve Adams

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On 22 Jul, 09:41, "John Salmon" wrote:

Interesting - thanks. On Wednesday I gave 'silver' as the colour for
the Jubilee line and this was 'correct', although I see it's
officially 'light grey'.
We still won our match with the highest score of the night -
see:http://mysite.orange.co.uk/retfordquiz/-
It's disappointing that it's officially recorded as light grey - given
that the line was named in honour of Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee,
it's fairly obvious what the intent was when choosing the colour. The
fact that it was arguably the best available colour for contrast with
all existing lines was serendipity.

OK, here's a question. If (and it's a big if) an additional line is
opened at some future point, what colour will provide maximum contrast
with all existing lines.

(Pratchett fans may NOT nominate octarine.)

I supose it would have to be a light green colour, perhaps with the District
Line being made slightly darker.

Peter Smyth

In message .com,
Steve writes
(Pratchett fans may NOT nominate octarine.)

I'm not a Pratchett fan. Does that mean I may nominate octarine?
--
Jane
British OO, American and Australian HO, and DCC in the garden
http://www.yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk/railway/railway.html

"Steve" wrote in message
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OK, here's a question. If (and it's a big if) an additional line is
opened at some future point, what colour will provide maximum contrast
with all existing lines.


Well, if that happens, it will likely be after the transfer of the ELL to
the London Overground brand, and the restructuring of the other sub-surface
lines, so potentially orange and yellow/pink will both be available.

BTN

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Steve wrote:

OK, here's a question. If (and it's a big if) an additional line is
opened at some future point, what colour will provide maximum contrast
with all existing lines.

ISTR official maps showing Chelsea-Hackney in lime green. Quite repulsive.

(Pratchett fans may NOT nominate octarine.)

One of the shades of black not currently in use, then?

tom

--
Only the bagel has the correct aspect ratio.