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Rainbow Flag colours are inaccurate #145

Open seangibbz opened 5 months ago

seangibbz commented 5 months ago

The colours of the 3D and Color Rainbow Flag emoji are much more subdued than they should be.

The colours should be

However, they appear as

This not only contradicts the standard hues of the Pride Flag, but also offer inconsistency when compared against rainbow flag emoji of other platforms.

The colour palette of the emoji should be adapted to more accurately reflect the reference flag.

The palette of the Flat variation could be used as a reference.

seangibbz commented 5 months ago

Correct colour codes (courtesy of Flag Color Codes):

Colour Red Orange Yellow Green Indigo Violet
Hex E40303 FF8C00 FFED00 008026 24408E 732982
RGB 228, 3, 3 255, 140, 0 255, 237, 0 0, 128, 38 36, 64, 142 115, 41, 130
CMYK 0, 99, 99, 11 0, 45, 100, 0 0, 7, 100, 0 100, 0, 70, 50 75, 55, 0, 44 12, 69, 0, 49
Pantone 1797 716 107 356 2748 2607
RAL 3026 1028 1026 6037 5002 4006
ChrisPVille commented 1 month ago

Is there a policy or guiding philosophy that governs the adjustment of established color pallets in things like flags? #28 seems to imply that flags in general will not be part of the icon set. I will just casually observe that for whatever reason both the built-in Windows and Fluent icon sets have taken significant liberty modifying colors of this and the transgender flag compared to all other major vendors.

For reference: https://emojipedia.org/rainbow-flag#designs https://emojipedia.org/transgender-flag#designs