Lee Colour

[Stan]

Hi all, dose anyone know what Lee number is the blue in the French flag?

[paulears]

Pantone Reflex Blue seems to be the colour, but apparently this is very difficult to match to both RGB LED or Gel colours as it's one of those colours that isn't quite what is seems and attempts to create it only get close. Just one of the colours that works as subtractive in reflection, but doesn't work by illumination. Like Lee 126 violet - where to the eye the colour of the gel is obvious but when you look through it red and yellow get sort of reversed. I suspect it will be a torch and swatch book - because the look up calculators fail on this one - producing a purple that is not in the flag version.

 

[adam2]

ISTR that the preferred or official shade of blue in the French flag was recently changed. The old blue was a bright blue similar similar to that used in the EU flag, the new blue is darker and more like a navy blue.

Actual flags flown on public buildings seem to vary a lot.

I doubt that the exact colour matters much provided that is easily recognised as a French flag

[sunray]

22 hours ago, adam2 said:

ISTR that the preferred or official shade of blue in the French flag was recently changed. The old blue was a bright blue similar similar to that used in the EU flag, the new blue is darker and more like a navy blue.

Actual flags flown on public buildings seem to vary a lot.

I doubt that the exact colour matters much provided that is easily recognised as a French flag

I believe it used to be a very dark blue and red. A number of years back it seemed to get lighter, almost a sky blue and post office red but more recently when I see it in a selection of others it appears darker again.

Some of that is probably due to the time it's been flying in the sun and faded.

When I tried to find the official colours for our union flag, it appeared there were 3 different options although one was head and shoulders above the others. I don't see similar detail for the French colours.

Edited January 16 by sunray

[Bryson]

It's officially defined as colour A503 in the AFNOR standard NFX 08002, apparently.  Which seems quite French.

 

 

Hex	002654
RGB	0, 38, 84
CMYK	100, 80, 0, 0
Pantone	Reflex Blue

 

But as Paul says, what "looks right" in light is often not strictly the same RGB/CMYK values as pigment.

 

[sunray]

5 hours ago, Bryson said:

It's officially defined as colour A503 in the AFNOR standard NFX 08002, apparently.  Which seems quite French.

 

 

Hex	002654
RGB	0, 38, 84
CMYK	100, 80, 0, 0
Pantone	Reflex Blue

 

But as Paul says, what "looks right" in light is often not strictly the same RGB/CMYK values as pigment.

 

And from that site, ingoring the descriptions going with it (but I'm not saying irrelevant):

"There are two variants of the French flag in equal use - a lighter and a darker version".

Which could explain Adam's and my perception/observation.

Edited January 16 by sunray

[Stan]

12 hours ago, sunray said:

And from that site, ingoring the descriptions going with it (but I'm not saying irrelevant):

"There are two variants of the French flag in equal use - a lighter and a darker version".

Which could explain Adam's and my perception/observation.

Hi, I was looking for the lighter older blue

[paulears]

I guess a Lee swatchbook and thumb through or an RGB LED and white screen and experiment.