Ichronic Color Scheme 1.0

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Added the colors suggested by qazse, plus Bourbon Loyalists/Empire of Mexico
 
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SECTION 3: HISPANIC SPHERE
Colonial empires and post-colonial successors
From Enrique the Navigator's conquest of Ceuta to the death of Evita Peron
(1415-1952)
1) El Salvador: #001ECA; 0, 30, 202 (Inverted Banana)
2) Costa Rica: #000CE3; 0, 12, 227 (Saturated Inverted Banana)
3) Colombia/Gran Colombia: #F6A08C; 246, 160, 140 (Poppy Petal)
4) Equador: #2F00EB; 47, 0, 235 (Inverted Artic Lime)
5) Brasil: #C485A8; 196, 133, 168 (Inverted Amazon)
6) Bolivia/Bolivarian Rebels: #6F4E37; 111, 78, 55 (Coffee)
7) Spanish Guyana/Val Verde*: #008F63; 0, 143, 99 (Saturated Spanish Viridian)
8) South American Rebels (e.g. Sendero Luminoso): #FF709C; 255, 112, 156 (Inverted Saturated Spanish Viridian)
9)Amazonas/Brasilian Natives**: #3B7A57; 59, 122, 87 (Amazon)
10) Rio Grande do Sul/Separatist Brasilians: #EFFACE; 239, 250, 206 (hey, I had ran out of named colors)
11) Paraguay: #00755E; 0, 117, 94 (Tropical Rain Forest)
12) Uruguay: #CDA4DE; 205, 164, 222 (Tropical Violet)
13) Chile: #BE5141; 190, 81, 65 (Chili)
14) Argentina: #6CB4EE; 108, 180, 238 (Argentinian Blue)
15) Patagonia: #E95C4B; 233, 92, 75 (Fire Opal)
16) Philippines: #5D1916; 93, 25, 22 (Philippine Brown)
17) Angola/Major Portugese Successor State**: #F1201D; 241, 32, 29 (Saturated Portughese Color)
18) Mozambique/Minor Portugese Successor State**: #645452; 100, 84, 82 (Wengè)
19) Portugal: #DC3532; 220, 53, 50 (From the City of Braganza flag)
20) Aragona/Spain: #E86100; 232, 97, 0 (Spanish Orange)
21) Castille: #F4F0EC; 244, 240, 236 (Isabelline)
22) Bourbon Loyalists/Empire of Mexico***: #0525A1; 5, 37, 161 (Inverted Yellow Naples)
* Major Hollywood Action Flick setting, Usually starring Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger
** There aren't enough native colors for a distinct palette so far (African and American Natives should be distinct)
*** After 1975, switch the main Spanish Color for this one
 
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SECTION 4: WESTERN EUROPE

1) Gallecia/Suebi/Spanish Celts: #009150; 0, 145, 80 (Spanish Green)
2) Asturia/Leòn/Visigothic Kingdom*: #E34234; 227, 66, 52 (Cinnabar)
3) Catalunia/Celtiberia: #9EFD38; 158, 253,56 (French Lime - "Lime" as in "Limit". Get it?)
4) Navarre: #0070BB; 0, 112, 187 (Spanish Blue)
5) Aquitaine**: #4000FF; 64, 0, 255 (Ultramarine)
6) Occitania: #FFCC33; 255, 204,51 (Sunglow)
7) Provence: #007FFF; 0, 127, 255; (Azure)
8) Gaul/Alvernia/Discontinous French Vassal: #CCCC00; 204, 204, 0 (medium pale green)
9) Belgium/Wallonia/Burgundy(Ducky): #7A005C; 122, 0, 92 (Burgundy)
10) Ducky of Savoy/Kingdom of Sardinia/Italy: #4B61D1; 75, 97, 209 (Savoy Blue)
11) Frankish/West Francia/France: #318CE7; 49, 140, 231 (Bleu de France)

* Do the Visigoth need their own color?
**Should it be in Section 5: Greater Britannia?

Anything I've missed?​
 
NOTES ON WESTERN EUROPE

In many existing color schemes "Western Europe" mostly refers to an enlarged France; I took the same concept, but played with it a little.
If normally France means modern France, which was born, if not with the Revolution, at least with Louis XIV the Sun King, and then is enlarged in time as well as space to include Medieval France from the Merovingian to Louis the Just, I took the reverse approach: Western Europe is still enlarged France, but enlarged Medieval France, which ENDS with Louis the Just and leaves all following kings as an appendix.
That's why i left Bleu de France, which usually is the main French color, for last.
I was even thinking of using a separate color for Revolutionary/Radical France (including Vichy) and yet another for Napoleonic/Imperial France.

Opinions?
 
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SECTION 4: WESTERN EUROPE (Revised)

0) Visigothic Kingdom: Forget it for now. More about the Goths later
1) Gallecia/Suebi/Spanish Celts: #009150; 0, 145, 80 (Spanish Green)
2) Asturia/Leòn: #E34234; 227, 66, 52 (Cinnabar)
3) Catalunia/Celtiberia: #9EFD38; 158, 253,56 (French Lime)
4) Navarre: #0070BB; 0, 112, 187 (Spanish Blue)
5) Aquitaine*: #4000FF; 64, 0, 255 (Ultramarine)
6) Occitania: #FFCC33; 255, 204,51 (Sunglow)
7) Provence: #007FFF; 0, 127, 255; (Azure)
8) Gaul/Alvernia/Discontinous French Vassal: #CCCC00; 204, 204, 0 (medium pale green)
9) Belgium/Wallonia/Burgundy(Ducky): #7A005C; 122, 0, 92 (Burgundy)
10) Ducky of Savoy/Kingdom of Sardinia/Italy: #4B61D1; 75, 97, 209 (Savoy Blue)
11) Frankish/West Francia/France: #318CE7; 49, 140, 231 (Bleu de France)
12) Revolutionary/Radical France/Vichy: #CE7318; 206, 115, 24 (Reverse Bleu de France)**
13) Imperial/Napoleonic France: #002395; 0, 25, 149 (Imperial Blue)
14) Napoleonic puppet: to be defined

* Still not sure about that British thing
** Also use for Romanized Gaul/Kingdom of Soissons. DO NOT USE for current France
 
Wouldn't just lighter shade of Napoleonic France be used for that?
That was one of the options. The others were to use the Radical France, a separate "Secondary France" color (That could double as "Romanized Gaul") or just the "Protectorate" color.
I think I'll just use the last one and be done with it.

What do you think about putting Aquitaine in the British palette? Also, should there be a separate "Angevin France" color, or the one for Provence (or Normandy in the English list) is enough?
 
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I stumbled by chance into this color, #606012; 96,96, 18, and it felt right. So now the color for Euskadi (Basque) is 96, 96, 18.
I'm considering wheter or not to use the Celadon Green for the Visigoths.

EDIT 1: the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that the Visigoths shouldn't be treated as Spanish, but included in a separate category, that I'm going to call, for the time being, "Barbarians". I'd rather use the term "Germanic Peoples" myself, but I'm not sure if that should be inclusive of all Germanic Peoples or distinguish between the Viking Era, Vendel Period and Migration Period

EDIT 2: Meanwhile I'm taking the opposite route.
Roman Empire coming soon
 
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Before we start with Rome, let's give a last glance at Western Europe:

SECTION 4: WESTERN EUROPE (Definite)

1) Gallecia/Suebi/Spanish Celts: #009150; 0, 145, 80 (Spanish Green)
2) Asturia/Leòn: #E34234; 227, 66, 52 (Cinnabar)
3) Catalunia/Celtiberia: #9EFD38; 158, 253,56 (French Lime)
4) Euskadi (Basque): #606012; 96,96, 18
5) Navarre: #0070BB; 0, 112, 187 (Spanish Blue)
6) Aquitaine: #4000FF; 64, 0, 255 (Ultramarine)
7) Occitania: #FFCC33; 255, 204,51 (Sunglow)
8) Provence: #007FFF; 0, 127, 255; (Azure)
9) Gaul/Alvernia/Discontinous French Vassal: #CCCC00; 204, 204, 0 (medium pale green)
10) Belgium/Wallonia/Burgundy(Ducky): #7A005C; 122, 0, 92 (Burgundy)
11) Ducky of Savoy/Kingdom of Sardinia/Italy: #4B61D1; 75, 97, 209 (Savoy Blue)
12) Frankish/West Francia/France: #318CE7; 49, 140, 231 (Bleu de France)
13) Revolutionary/Radical France/Vichy: #CE7318; 206, 115, 24 (Reverse Bleu de France)*
14) Imperial/Napoleonic France: #002395; 0, 25, 149 (Imperial Blue)
Napoleonic puppet: Use the regular Protectorate color

* Also use for Romanized Gaul/Kingdom of Soissons. DO NOT USE for current France
 
PRELIMINARY NOTES ON ROME

Like I did for the Americas and Western Europe, I'm taking a radical approach on Rome as well: first of all, I'm going to reframe anything we consider "Roman" in a different contest, that I call Mediterranea.
Like I did for the Hispanic Sphere, I'm setting temporal boundaries to Mediterranea, starting with Greek and Phoenician Colonization, and ending with the fall of Trebizond in 1461.
If you hold Venice as part of Mediterranea however, then the terminus must be pushed further closer to us, to 1799, and if you include Naples, Sicily and the Papal states then 1861 becomes your terminus.

Finally, if you consider Modern Greece, and North Africa (Except for Egypt; Egypt goes its separate way) then Mediterranea is alive today, and its current colors are

1) Greece
2) Morocco
3) Algeria
4) Tunisia
5) Lybia*

* 6) Lybian rebels

But we were going to talk about Rome. Well, like Mediterranea, Rome and her Empire are shifting concepts and, in my modest opinion, as much a foreign concept to us modern western people as a Taylor Swift World Tour and Playstation 5 would have been to a Roman tribune.
I'm trying to convey this alienness into ICS as well: firt of all, I'm using One. Single. Roman. Color. for all Roman History from "Romulus" to the fall of Constantinople, and that's Tyrian Purple (66023C; 40, 1, 24). The color Byzantine (#BD33A4; 189, 51, 164) would then represent not Byzantium itself but a successor state, like Trebizond, leaving the main Greek color doubling for the Empire of Nicaea (That would be #800080; 128, 0, 128, which is called Patriarch).
During the Tethrarchy, the main Roman Color would be associated wit Diocletian Augustus and later Constantine I, the Greek Patriarch Color with Galerius Caesar, Byzantine with Massimian Augustus (ironically covering Rome itself) and Radical France/romanized Gaul with Costantius Clorus Caesar.

The breakaway Gallic and Palmirene Empire will be covered elsewhere.

I think I've neatly covered all of Roman History from 753 B.C.E. to 1461 C.E. with just three colors*.

* Any student of Classic History:
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firt of all, I'm using One. Single. Roman. Color. for all Roman History from "Romulus" to the fall of Constantinople, and that's Tyrian Purple (66023C; 40, 1, 24). The color Byzantine (#BD33A4; 189, 51, 164) would then represent not Byzantium itself but a successor state, like Trebizond, leaving the main Greek color doubling for the Empire of Nicaea (That would be #800080; 128, 0, 128, which is called Patriarch).

So, is the Latin Empire getting Tyrian Purple while it exists? And Nicea after retaking Constantinople changes color?
 
So, is the Latin Empire getting Tyrian Purple while it exists? And Nicea after retaking Constantinople changes color?
The Latin Empire takes a color from the incoming Crusader States palette. Nicea keeps its own color, while Tyrian Purple gets suspended between 1204 and 1261, though it can stay as an Outline either for the Nicene Empire alone or all Byzantine claimants collectively.

Thank you for the insight

EDIT: Actually, why can't the "Radical France/Latinized Gaul" work also for a "Radical Frankish ruled Latin Empire"?
 
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Now that Rome has been taken care of, we can focus our attention on Greece.
It always bothered me that most existing color schemes seem to ignore or downplay the internal differences between the various Greek uh... factions? treating Greece as a single, undivided entity from the War of Troy to modern Greece.
I feel that this reflects, and perhaps is unconsciously influenced by, a classicist idea of Greek "perfection" that hardly reflects reality IMHO.

To better reflect what Ancient Greece looked like, I decided to add one further color to the Greek Palette, Spartan Crimson (#9E1316; 158, 19, 22) and leaving the main Greek color to Athens and the Delian League.
This takes care of the Peloponnesian War but leaves a few "holes", the first being Corinth and Magna Graecia, and all the Greek city-states and colonies that wouldn't cast their lot either with Sparta or with Athens.
For that I think that the color for Naples, Yellow Naples (#F7E89F; 247, 232, 159) will do.

The second hole is the Kingdom of Macedonia, alongside the various Hellenistic Kingdom.
For that the color of Trebizond can simply be re-used, with a lighter shade and an appropriate outline to represent the single kingdom (For example, the Seleucid kingdom would have the lighter Hellenistic/Trebizond color with a Persian outline).

The Third hole is fairly minor, it's the Minoan Civilization for which the Sicilian Color (Myrtle green #317873; 49, 120, 115) can simply be reused.

I thought also of a color for Troy, with Crimson Spartan doubling as Mycenaean Greece, but more about it in the Asia Minor/Middle East palette.
 
Rome's Neighbors

Now that we tackled both Rome and Greece, we're moving around the neighborhood.
Leaving behind Rome we immediatlely neet the Etruscan, whose color double for Medieval Tuscany/Florence. That color is Tuscan (#FAD6A5; 250, 214, 165).
To the south we meet Cathage, for which i'm not departing much from the norm and using the color for Tunisia #DECC9C; 222, 204, 156 (Lion). I'm not sure if I should use the same color for the Kingdom of the Vandals, or a different one.
Next we find Algeria, that doubles for Berbers AND the kingdom of Numidia #967117; 150, 113, 23 (Bistre Brown) and Lybia #C2B280; 194, 178, 128 (Ecru) with the addition of the modern Lybian rebels #006A00; 0, 106, 0
 
Medieval Mediterranea

We are now leaving behind the Ancient World and heading to Medieval Mediterranea. The last of the Arab World would be Morocco #0F4E67; 15, 78, 103 (Moroccan Blue) and Cordoba/Granada #893F45; 137, 63, 69 (Cordoban).
Finally, we get to the Papal States #F5F5F5; 245, 245, 245 (White Smoke) and Venice #C80815; 20, 8, 21 (Venetian Red)
 
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