Currently trying to improve the colors of a bunch of EU-related maps.

  • Some of them don't adhere to MOS:CONTRAST, and therefore WP:ACCESSIBILITY (shades of blue, shades of yellow, shades of green...). So I'm trying to fix this.
  • But, more broadly speaking, I'm also trying to standardize colors. EU-related maps were/are very inconsistent with coloring.

Standard colors were mainly derived from 2 sources:

  • Colors used for EU-related maps most of the time
  • Colors as defined by the EU itself here
  • Sometimes I averaged out two differing shades of the same color. When I doubt, I chose the more saturated and bright variant, for contrast.

With this process I arrived at the following color scheme:

  • Blue: #003399
  • EU Yellow: #ffd617
  • EU Red: #da2131
  • EU Orange: #F29527 (only when clearly separate from yellow)
  • Purple: #a050ffff
  • Green: #46a43b

If you have any questions or criticism or requests, please let me know on my talk page.


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Most of the time I contribute to the German-version of Wikipedia under the same name.