Xolani
Joined 21 April 2007
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: #a050ff
- Green: #46a43b
- Edit: Needed one more, a bit more subtle color. Used light brown #c39467
- Edit 2: Needed another blue. Used #5bc6ff
If you have any questions or criticism or requests, please let me know on my talk page.
Updated Maps, so far
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Map of the Schengen Area.svg -
EU Single Market.svg -
EU Customs Union.svg -
European Public Prosecutor member states.svg -
Energy Community Map.svg -
Schengenzone.svg -
European Union member states and candidates v2.svg -
European Union Western Balkans.svg -
Eurozone map.svg -
Eurozone participation.svg -
European Union future possible members 2.0.svg -
Eurozone Internal.svg -
Euro outside.svg -
European Union Eastern Partnership.svg -
Eurozone.svg -
European Defence Agency - EDA map (2).svg -
BlueEurozone.svg -
European Single Market integration.svg -
Further European Union Enlargement.svg -
EU and NATO.svg -
Istanbul Convention (2011) participation map, current.svg -
Europe_rail_electrification_en.svg -
Europe_rail_electrification_de.svg -
Rail left right side Map of Europe.svg
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Most of the time I contribute to the German-version of Wikipedia under the same name.