Where did the traditional AH.com country colours come from?
- Thread starter qazse
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Works, so long as Prussian and French territorial possessions don't border each other
This is an interesting topic for me, as I swear I'll get started on some mapping *someday*
But I grew up with old globes, and things like the Shepherd's Historical Atlas.... of course, the UK and possessions are always pink/"light red", France and possessions are always blue (generally a different shade than the seas)... but as for other nations, there's less standardization...
I remember reading somewhere that green was the standard colour for the USSR/Russia back in Soviet days... also seems like I've seen yellow used (for whatever reason) for the German Empire and possessions on pre-WWI maps...
I'd like to study this in more detail, and come up with a five-colour or six-colour scheme, similar to what I'm accustomed to seeing on old globes and in historical atlases...
Alex Richards
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Can't help you on Ethiopia- that's been around for yoinks.
The rest I'm pretty sure is either the now long-banned Wolfram, LSCatilina or myself just going 'right need another colour in West Africa, can't be blue because of France, sure orange will do nicely.'
Fun fact: it took more than a few years to come around to the idea that Prussia shouldn't just use German grey, pre-1866.
I mean, I can see why it would be left grey. As the predecessor state to "Germany as we know it" or "Prussian-led Germany" the two have a similar vibe in the popular consciousness and are unlikely to exist separately, and most other (Austrian or "other") Germanies have their own color in color schemes.
I feel like the Prussian Blue is kind of affected by Paradox games and the idea that Germany is a single concept "formable" by anyone, but also by a sort of better understanding of the historical reality that no matter how influential Prussia may be in Germany, Germany as a united state will function very differently from Prussia.
I meant more the concept of Germany being a different color from any one German state because it's a separate entity that any one of them can form.
TBH not the best thought through point on my part though bc I'm tired
Alex Richards
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I might be getting muddled with someone else with some sort of variation on Wolf.
Well, Persia/Iran being cheese yellow can be a result of saffron, often associated with that country.
