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Why the colours we use (Brown/Blue/Green+Yellow)

Duane

I think i've flipped up

I was under the impression we use the Brown Blue and Green/Yellow help with colour blindness (most common green and red)

I know it's to bring UK in line with EU. But why did EU use them colours.  

Because I understand green earth (CPC)

Red Live (line) [hot colour]

(Forgive any misspellings Dyslexic and hard to see , also miss out works as forget to type them)

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    My feeling has always been, why they changed the colour system, was because they can! I guess someone said oh dear... lets upset electricians' BUT HOW? Ah!! Lets throw our weight around and change the RYB to BBB. Someone probably won an award for it, somewhere!

  • 0 in reply to Tomgunn

    No, they changed it so that many countries could then all use the same scheme. You can of course debate whether the pain of transition was worth the gain of harmonisation, but there was a real motivation for it, not just "because they can".

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  • 0 in reply to Tomgunn

    No, they changed it so that many countries could then all use the same scheme. You can of course debate whether the pain of transition was worth the gain of harmonisation, but there was a real motivation for it, not just "because they can".

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