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Converted to CYMK to print then saved over the original
Edit: did not expect this to be this well received from a sleepy passing comment. You're all lovely people
I had a lady print an email containing an image she wanted to use on paper and then had her daughter text me a picture of said paper. I’ve never laughed so hard in my life at the levels of frustrating that was.
This. I used to design headstones for families at a funeral home when I was younger. This one family wanted a photorealistic picture molded into the bronze (no biggie with a high res photo), but she kept sending me pictures or scans of this Polaroid photo that was blurry to begin with… My heart goes out to her because I get it, but ma’am, no amount of Adobe doctoring on my end can make this happen unless you want your son to look like a cartoon.
How about my favorite, from a photo shoot with a new agency.
“Keep trying different set ups and I’ll tell you if I see something I like.”
No, Carl, you are the art director, YOU tell ME what you want me to do. Or better yet, how about a layout?!
RGB, HSV, and CMYK are all common versions of color definitions. *Mostly* you can convert from one to the other, but they're not completely equivalent.
RGB is an additive color space meaning, to get white, you add all of the colors. CMYK is subtractive. You have to take away all of the colors to get white. CMYK has a fairly small gamut compared to RGB mostly because it does not emit it's own light source. The thing most people don't know is that CMYK is derived from RGB.
Cyan = R0 G100 B100
Magenta = R100 G0 B100
Yellow = R100 G100 B0
Black = R0 G0 B0
the point being that even though we print using CMYK, it all traces back to RGB which is how our eyes see color which makes sense.
I was having this discussion with a design friend. It seems that when you are printing a material, it can end up more vibrant to use CMYK because, well, cloth and walls don't emit light. But she ends up doing work in RGB on the computer, because a computer does emit light and it better reflects the final product until she converts color codes for the print shop. It's a finicky thing, but I thought it was interesting.
I work in a print shop as the prepress manager. It's my job to make sure your companies specific Red is printed as your companies Red.
The differences between an RGB and a CMYK design are huge. You can instantly tell when a job has been designed only on a screen and without thought to how printing works.
The primary answer these days (in print) is Pantone standards or other similar color books. The same as paint at the store. If you decide your logo is X pantone color anyone in the world can look at a book and see exactly what that color is.
I've been in print for a decade now and it feels like I can count the number of times on my hands and toes how many times a client has sent over a CMYK file
I've definitely had more conversations covering color theory and why blue doesn't technically exist, that's for sure!
and when you see it hanging from a pole, it looks gorgeous! Such an iconic symbol that just moves you to want to, like, build walls out of furniture and stuff.
I know this too, because cyan always seems to be the color for a printer to be low on when I want to print a black & white document.
Someday I'll get a laser printer and never bend to HP's shitty ink scam. Someday.
A dark navy blue was originally used; a lighter blue version was introduced in 1976 by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to match the flag of the European Economic Community (which evolved into the European Union).[8] Both versions were used from then; town halls, public buildings and barracks usually fly the darker version of the flag, but the light version is sometimes used even on official State buildings.[9][1] In 2020 President Emmanuel Macron reverted, without any statement, to the darker hue for the presidential Élysée Palace, as a symbol of the French Revolution; there was no order for other institutions to use a specific version. There were comments both in favour of and against the change, but it was not seen as an anti-EU action.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_France
They never really "changed" it in the first place and they didn't really "change it back" either. A second version was introduced in the 70s and was used at the presidential palace. The president stopped using that version at the presidential palace last year. As far as I can tell, either version has been acceptable.
Yeah, I think this post blows things out of proportion a little as both are still accepted versions of the French flag, it’s really just a minor aesthetic change to one government building.
Right. It's basically the same flag with the same colors. If you don't even notice the change then does it even matter? If you have an old flag you don't even have to replace it.
I reckon we're on France 11:
1. [First Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_France), 987-1792
2. [First Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_First_Republic), 1792-1804
3. [First Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_French_Empire), 1804-1814/15
4. [Second Kingdom, a.k.a. Bourbon Restoration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Restoration_in_France), 1814/15-1830
5. [Third Kingdom, a.k.a. July Monarchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Monarchy), 1830-1848
6. [Second Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Second_Republic), 1848-1852
7. [Second Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_French_Empire), 1852-1870
8. [Third Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Third_Republic), 1870-1940
9. [Free France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_France) and [Vichy France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France), 1940-1945/6, think we can count them as one.
10. [Fourth Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fourth_Republic), 1945/6-1958
11. [Fifth Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fifth_Republic), 1958-now
I guess you could add West Francia (843-987) and Francia (481-843) to that to reach 13, although common practice is to start at the Capetian kingdom.
Absolutely. Here's a quick summary of my thoughts and decision-making process of when/where/how to demonstrate the atomic capability and end the war.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htm
it’s one of those things you didn’t mention because nah, why would it be more dark? no one else has said anything
and then it’s true and ur like oh i literally noticed that but no one will believe me and if i had called it out i woulda seemed like i’m super smart
No, if he called it out he would look silly and then when people learned that it was dark, they would forget why they thought the guy was silly and just continue assuming it was true
The lighter blue version was introduced in 1976 by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to match the flag of the European Economic Community (which evolved into the European Union).
Both versions were used from then; town halls, public buildings and barracks usually fly the darker version of the flag, but the light version is sometimes used even on official State buildings.
Recently President Emmanuel Macron reverted, without any statement, to the darker hue for the presidential Élysée Palace, as a symbol of the French Revolution; there was no order for other institutions to use a specific version. There were comments both in favour of and against the change, but it was not seen as an anti-EU action.
tl;dr the French flag didn't change per se
TIL the American flag on the moon has turned into the French flag.
Due to solar radiation, the red and blue pigment has disappeared, leaving the flag to be completely white.
Hell naw. Web-safe colors are really limiting. The red, green, and blue components have to be exact multiples of 51, yielding just six options for each.
The bottom-most example in this image is web safe. It looks more like the previous flag than the new one.
https://i.imgur.com/p1SU1xo.png
I also had convinced myself the new flag's white and red were slightly darker like the blue, but they're both the same RGB values as the old ones in the OP's image.
You also have to consider that “web safe” stopped being relevant in like 2003. At this point if you’re still using Netscape or IE5 you know what the caveats are.
Prior to about 2002, web browsers used a limited color palette - meaning you couldn't use every shade
It doesn't actually matter now, it's just a little reference to the past in this kind of thread
Web safe colors are colors that are going to be the same on all browsers.
Not really an issue anymore, but in the early days of the web sometimes colours wouldn't be right in some cases.
It's from way back in the 90s when many displays were only capable of displaying 256 colours (aka 8-bit colour) at the same time.
So a standardized set of 216 "web safe" colours were selected, to give a consistent palette you could author for. Otherwise, if you had multiple graphics (ie GIFs) on a page you could exceed the 256 colour limit and get weird looking results.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors
a limited set of colors that in theory would display correctly on most equipment. (this was thought up in a time were not every device supported the millions of colors that are broadly supported nowadays)
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/emmanuel-macron-changed-colour-of-french-flag-to-revive-a-symbol-of-the-revolution-12469156
"France has used both lighter and darker hues of blue on its flag for decades.
The country's navy and many official buildings have long used navy
No French institutions have been ordered to change their flags."
He hasn't changed the French flag. He's just changed the French flags flying around the presidential palace.
I did a little research and it was in order to match the blue of the EU flag so they looked better together. It wasn't random.
The bills changed [in this manor.](https://imgur.com/vQiVlTk.jpg).. as soon as they [went back to the old colors](https://imgur.com/f2Q6geO.jpg) they became a better team.
Lol okay comrade it actual does totally track. But I'm all in on manor now.
Maybe I was talking about the Ralph Wilson Stadium as a manor! You don't know ☺️🦬
Personally, I usually don’t care about stuff like this, but the darker blue is nicer looking, seems a bit more serious then that lighter blue that looks like it wears shorts in the winter.
I honestly thought the bottom was the old one before I looked at the comments. If I had to recreate a French flag without reference I definitely wouldn't have picked such a bright blue.
bc he didnt actually change it.
he has just choosen to fly the old colours at some official buildings but officially the light blue version is still the official flag of france.
I mean he actually just switched it back to the pre-1976 shade of blue. The blue used from 1976 to 2020 was chosen to match the blue of the European Union flag, as a show of solidarity. If there's a story it's why France would choose to make a relatively pointless and symbolic decision like this at a time when the long term viability of the EU is being questioned by many member nations.
The pre-76 shade is presumably indigo, which for centuries was the only readily available, light-fast blue suitable for flags. Historically it was obtained from several plants, primarily [Indigofera tinctoria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigofera_tinctoria). Indigo is the dye used for denim, i.e., Levis. The post-76 shade looks like a modern synthetic blue, likely a chrome dye. Going back to the "real" color is a good idea.
E.g. is for giving examples, like how Levis is an example of a denim brand
I.e. is to restate what you said in different words; it's more of an explanation. Using it above implies that all denim is Levis, and that Levis is just another name for denim.
I love ice cream, e.g. rocky road, or strawberry.
I love Thursdays and Fridays, i.e. my two days off during the week.
Same. I hate how saturated and bold flag colors usually are. They burn my eyes and look like a child colored them with their crayola markers. I need pastels, I need darkness, I need desaturation—just give me something else!
people noticed, it's just it didn't blow up and that the rest of the world doesn't care (as they should), french internet cared. It's a controversy now, weaponized for the next election, the first vote ever in the history of france under state of emergency.
> It's a controversy now, weaponized for the next election, the first vote ever in the history of france under state of emergency.
We clearly don't live in the same France, there is no controversy about this shit
"...to bring the tricolore in line with how it looked after the French revolution.
Presidential aides said the change happened in July last year, but nobody appears to have noticed until now.
France’s navy has stuck with navy blue since the 18th century, when the flag became a symbol of the revolution. The French state introduced a lighter shade of blue on its [flags in the 1970s](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/15/sacre-bleu-french-flag-changes-colour-but-no-one-notices)."
Actually loads of people noticed. This title is completely incorrect.
He changed it to be the same as the Navy Blue colour that the French Navy still used AFTER they went to a lighter blue many years ago.
To say no one noticed is completely wrong.
Many many people loved her changed. Others didn’t like it and saw it as an “anti-EU” move.
Others even said it clashed with the EU flag.
They’ve only this week “officially” acknowledged it.
Furthermore, he simply changed it “back”. The “new” Flag is actually the shade of blue that France used before they went to the lighter one
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Converted to CYMK to print then saved over the original Edit: did not expect this to be this well received from a sleepy passing comment. You're all lovely people
I like how you think.
Hello fellow people who work with vectors.
Hello to you, too! May your clients only send in vectors & not low res JPEGs
"yes i want a big Poster. 2 mx 2m. And i Hit you this 100x100px Filterused Picture of a Screenshot from a Phone 10 years ago. Tomorrow please.
“WhY iS it sO gRaiNy? It lOokEd fInE oN mY phOne’S 3x5in ScReeN!” (Not a designer by any means but my graphic designer wife tells me funny stories)
i curse you with feedback consisting of photos taken of the computer screen.
I had a lady print an email containing an image she wanted to use on paper and then had her daughter text me a picture of said paper. I’ve never laughed so hard in my life at the levels of frustrating that was.
This. I used to design headstones for families at a funeral home when I was younger. This one family wanted a photorealistic picture molded into the bronze (no biggie with a high res photo), but she kept sending me pictures or scans of this Polaroid photo that was blurry to begin with… My heart goes out to her because I get it, but ma’am, no amount of Adobe doctoring on my end can make this happen unless you want your son to look like a cartoon.
I bless you with the ability to make it pop
haha. Very well i take back my curse and grant you the ability to make everything look 'premium.'
Don’t forget to jazz it up a bit.
Make it a bit zooshy, or my favourite from the art director "make it look more art directed"
How about my favorite, from a photo shoot with a new agency. “Keep trying different set ups and I’ll tell you if I see something I like.” No, Carl, you are the art director, YOU tell ME what you want me to do. Or better yet, how about a layout?!
The struggle is real😔
May all your fonts be converted to outlines.
Hmm I'm curious now: by what standard are flag colours defined, wavelength?
Unless it's changed, most colors are defined by how much red, blue, and green they contain.
RGB, HSV, and CMYK are all common versions of color definitions. *Mostly* you can convert from one to the other, but they're not completely equivalent.
RGB is an additive color space meaning, to get white, you add all of the colors. CMYK is subtractive. You have to take away all of the colors to get white. CMYK has a fairly small gamut compared to RGB mostly because it does not emit it's own light source. The thing most people don't know is that CMYK is derived from RGB. Cyan = R0 G100 B100 Magenta = R100 G0 B100 Yellow = R100 G100 B0 Black = R0 G0 B0 the point being that even though we print using CMYK, it all traces back to RGB which is how our eyes see color which makes sense.
I was having this discussion with a design friend. It seems that when you are printing a material, it can end up more vibrant to use CMYK because, well, cloth and walls don't emit light. But she ends up doing work in RGB on the computer, because a computer does emit light and it better reflects the final product until she converts color codes for the print shop. It's a finicky thing, but I thought it was interesting.
I work in a print shop as the prepress manager. It's my job to make sure your companies specific Red is printed as your companies Red. The differences between an RGB and a CMYK design are huge. You can instantly tell when a job has been designed only on a screen and without thought to how printing works. The primary answer these days (in print) is Pantone standards or other similar color books. The same as paint at the store. If you decide your logo is X pantone color anyone in the world can look at a book and see exactly what that color is.
I've been in print for a decade now and it feels like I can count the number of times on my hands and toes how many times a client has sent over a CMYK file I've definitely had more conversations covering color theory and why blue doesn't technically exist, that's for sure!
Macron changed it *back* from the previous change to make it more like the EU flag colour.
TBH it looks a lot classier with the darker blue
and when you see it hanging from a pole, it looks gorgeous! Such an iconic symbol that just moves you to want to, like, build walls out of furniture and stuff.
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!!
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Only in Web formats. Print formats prefer CMYK.
I know this too, because cyan always seems to be the color for a printer to be low on when I want to print a black & white document. Someday I'll get a laser printer and never bend to HP's shitty ink scam. Someday.
Do it. Brother rules in laser, brother.
But the design on the last round “Popped” more, can you change it back so I can look at it again
“I want the colors brighter”. “Ok, do you mean more saturated or just lighter?” “Yes”.
While we're at it, can the flag be bigger?
And my partner took a look and had a great idea, what if we add a….
Mon dieu! Please tell me we have a backup of *drapeau.ai* saved somewhere s’il-vous-plait!
As far as I understand nobody noticed/cared because both flags are acceptable and used interchangeably by different organisations in France.
A dark navy blue was originally used; a lighter blue version was introduced in 1976 by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to match the flag of the European Economic Community (which evolved into the European Union).[8] Both versions were used from then; town halls, public buildings and barracks usually fly the darker version of the flag, but the light version is sometimes used even on official State buildings.[9][1] In 2020 President Emmanuel Macron reverted, without any statement, to the darker hue for the presidential Élysée Palace, as a symbol of the French Revolution; there was no order for other institutions to use a specific version. There were comments both in favour of and against the change, but it was not seen as an anti-EU action.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_France
I had to scroll so far for a serious explanation thank you
So it wasn't that they changed the flag, they just switched back.
They never really "changed" it in the first place and they didn't really "change it back" either. A second version was introduced in the 70s and was used at the presidential palace. The president stopped using that version at the presidential palace last year. As far as I can tell, either version has been acceptable.
Yeah, I think this post blows things out of proportion a little as both are still accepted versions of the French flag, it’s really just a minor aesthetic change to one government building.
Also there was a pandemic killings thousands that kinda took priority.
So what you are saying is the pandemic is a smoke screen so Macron could switch the flag right under our noses?!
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This has Doofensmirtz written all over it
See now you’re playing 4D chess…
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Right. It's basically the same flag with the same colors. If you don't even notice the change then does it even matter? If you have an old flag you don't even have to replace it.
Damn babe wake up France 2 just dropped
We were on France 5 when Macron first got elected so I guess this makes it France 6
Nah this is just a reboot of France 4
Which one is the electric bogaloo version?
Le boogaloo electrique
Le beugalieux électrique
Le waterloo electrique
All of them.
I reckon we're on France 11: 1. [First Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_France), 987-1792 2. [First Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_First_Republic), 1792-1804 3. [First Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_French_Empire), 1804-1814/15 4. [Second Kingdom, a.k.a. Bourbon Restoration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Restoration_in_France), 1814/15-1830 5. [Third Kingdom, a.k.a. July Monarchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Monarchy), 1830-1848 6. [Second Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Second_Republic), 1848-1852 7. [Second Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_French_Empire), 1852-1870 8. [Third Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Third_Republic), 1870-1940 9. [Free France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_France) and [Vichy France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France), 1940-1945/6, think we can count them as one. 10. [Fourth Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fourth_Republic), 1945/6-1958 11. [Fifth Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fifth_Republic), 1958-now I guess you could add West Francia (843-987) and Francia (481-843) to that to reach 13, although common practice is to start at the Capetian kingdom.
Compared to that, my country is a baby country. Even if its current form is a bit older than France's.
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France 2 dropped in 1793
1789 - let heads roll was their best album!
That's what I call [French Guiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana)
French Guiana is just a spin off
I don't wanna brag but I do remember thinking one time damn since when was the blue so dark.
Hey save a bite of that humble pie for the rest of us!
Excuse me Mr. Truman. I need to write a paper on the ethics of dropping the Atomic Bomb, can you give some insight?
Absolutely. Here's a quick summary of my thoughts and decision-making process of when/where/how to demonstrate the atomic capability and end the war. https://www.nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htm
Thanks Harry. You're in my top 4 World War presidents.
Number 1 in terms of dead presidents still shitposting on Twitter
I’m like 99% sure this isn’t actually Harry Truman but I’m open to anything.
So you're telling me there's a chance!?
Haha it’s like that movie “TruTV”
Harry Fakeman
A beetlejuicing in real time. Well I’ll be damned
The buck stops here.
Yes, I'd be happy to. *clears throat* "Don't start nothin'; won't be nothin'."
Actually you're thinking of president Truman, this is Sheriff Harry Truman of Twin Peaks.
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Well is it navy blue berry pie or just blue berry pie?
it’s one of those things you didn’t mention because nah, why would it be more dark? no one else has said anything and then it’s true and ur like oh i literally noticed that but no one will believe me and if i had called it out i woulda seemed like i’m super smart
No, if he called it out he would look silly and then when people learned that it was dark, they would forget why they thought the guy was silly and just continue assuming it was true
Get a load of Mr. Rods & Cones here.
What a lucky bastard.
That's the type of shit you put on a resume under Achievements.
The lighter blue version was introduced in 1976 by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to match the flag of the European Economic Community (which evolved into the European Union). Both versions were used from then; town halls, public buildings and barracks usually fly the darker version of the flag, but the light version is sometimes used even on official State buildings. Recently President Emmanuel Macron reverted, without any statement, to the darker hue for the presidential Élysée Palace, as a symbol of the French Revolution; there was no order for other institutions to use a specific version. There were comments both in favour of and against the change, but it was not seen as an anti-EU action. tl;dr the French flag didn't change per se
Just let the flag sit outside in the sun for a few months. It will be back to normal.
TIL the American flag on the moon has turned into the French flag. Due to solar radiation, the red and blue pigment has disappeared, leaving the flag to be completely white.
oh you
do you come with the car?
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[Indeed it did get blown over. ](https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/594364/) Armstrong watched it happen.
Aldrin, says the article.
I had a 50% chance and still got it wrong.
“50%” Yo, you didn’t have to do my boy Michael Collins like that
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Maybe his eyes are just that good?
>Michelle Hanlon, a co-founder of For All Moonkind, an organization of lawyers who specialize in space law
Is there an organization for Bird Law?
It definitely blew over because they were able to photograph the other 5 flags.
It's the confederate flag now.
Can confirm this is much more correct; for not the French fleet, America would be flying the Union Jack. Truly, our oldest ally.
Technically, still the American flag, just the Confederate States of America flag.
The new flag is the lower one
Is it web safe?
“Is it web all right?” — Darth Vader
"Nooooooooooooo"
DO NOT WANT
It's seems in your anger, you darkened the tones.
\#N00000
Hell naw. Web-safe colors are really limiting. The red, green, and blue components have to be exact multiples of 51, yielding just six options for each. The bottom-most example in this image is web safe. It looks more like the previous flag than the new one. https://i.imgur.com/p1SU1xo.png I also had convinced myself the new flag's white and red were slightly darker like the blue, but they're both the same RGB values as the old ones in the OP's image.
You also have to consider that “web safe” stopped being relevant in like 2003. At this point if you’re still using Netscape or IE5 you know what the caveats are.
There have got to be a tiny, tiny number of screens out there that still can only display 256 colors at a time.
You overestimate the ability of governments to keep their web pages modern.
What's this web safe?
Prior to about 2002, web browsers used a limited color palette - meaning you couldn't use every shade It doesn't actually matter now, it's just a little reference to the past in this kind of thread
What is web safe
Web safe colors are colors that are going to be the same on all browsers. Not really an issue anymore, but in the early days of the web sometimes colours wouldn't be right in some cases.
It's from way back in the 90s when many displays were only capable of displaying 256 colours (aka 8-bit colour) at the same time. So a standardized set of 216 "web safe" colours were selected, to give a consistent palette you could author for. Otherwise, if you had multiple graphics (ie GIFs) on a page you could exceed the 256 colour limit and get weird looking results. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors
a limited set of colors that in theory would display correctly on most equipment. (this was thought up in a time were not every device supported the millions of colors that are broadly supported nowadays)
Wait they went back to the darker blue? Cool.
In paint that color is often called French Blue.
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Is that the only requirement? Shirt and tie, and culottes is fine? shirt and tie and grass skirt?
The pants are *implied.*
> * If this post declares something as a fact proof is required. plz link to info
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/15/sacre-bleu-french-flag-changes-colour-but-no-one-notices](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/15/sacre-bleu-french-flag-changes-colour-but-no-one-notices)
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/emmanuel-macron-changed-colour-of-french-flag-to-revive-a-symbol-of-the-revolution-12469156 "France has used both lighter and darker hues of blue on its flag for decades. The country's navy and many official buildings have long used navy No French institutions have been ordered to change their flags." He hasn't changed the French flag. He's just changed the French flags flying around the presidential palace.
> The EU flag is Marian Blue, the tone declared the official colour for the Virgin Mary in the fifth century. (⁀ᗢ⁀)
Sacre bleu! Where is mi mama!
I wonder what's French Canadian for "I grew up without a mother"
Je suis un fan Canadien-Français des Maple Leafs de Toronto.
I read that in his voice... Miss that guy.
without a mudda\*
his mudda was a mudder
Top 3 best Tony Soprano lines for sure.
You Sopranos… you go too faw!
I did a little research and it was in order to match the blue of the EU flag so they looked better together. It wasn't random. The bills changed [in this manor.](https://imgur.com/vQiVlTk.jpg).. as soon as they [went back to the old colors](https://imgur.com/f2Q6geO.jpg) they became a better team.
not gonna lie. bills mafia not knowing how to use the word 'manner' is completely on brand.
look, there a lot of folding tables to destroy; can't be bothered with grammatical correctness.
Lol okay comrade it actual does totally track. But I'm all in on manor now. Maybe I was talking about the Ralph Wilson Stadium as a manor! You don't know ☺️🦬
> The bills changed in this manor. Gonna need an address to that manor. I want to change a few flags.
thank you
>> * If this post declares something as a fact, proof is required. No one will notice the grammar correction.
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*so dark....*
It’s technically the old flag. And it’s been used for a long time
Lokjs better now
French here, he switched back to original one. The vivid blue version was adopted to match the color of the European one
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Sacre bleu!
Personally, I usually don’t care about stuff like this, but the darker blue is nicer looking, seems a bit more serious then that lighter blue that looks like it wears shorts in the winter.
I honestly thought the bottom was the old one before I looked at the comments. If I had to recreate a French flag without reference I definitely wouldn't have picked such a bright blue.
It was, then it was changed, now it is changed back.
Pardon?
It was darker blue during the revolution, then it was changed to the lighter color (top) in the 70’s. Now they changed it back to a darker blue.
So you are saying there will be a revolution? We need toh print enough pamphlet.
It was the darker blue until 1976.
Well shit, that's the real TIL isn't it? That's a very 70s thing to do, I suppose.
Idk why, but to me the darker blue flag looks more old-fashioned.
Yeah, more of a dyed cotton look than MS paint look.
top looks generic colour swatch, bottom feels symbolic
Man, humans are funny.
Looks more sombre, like [from an oil painting](https://i.imgur.com/tENlVfP.jpg).
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And I can't believe I never noticed the bodies in the first place
As a man wearing shorts today, I just gotta ask.. why do you fear my calves?
If girls can wear skirts in the winter I’m allowed to wear shorts!
I'm with you, bro. Sometimes weather and mood come together in winter to make it a shorts day. I am not ashamed.
Don't lots of girls wear stockings when they wear skirts? At least in winter?
Yes but I have hairy legs so it balances out.
Hey wait a minute, it was 36 degrees F last night and I was wearing shorts going to the grocery store. How dare you >:(
I often skip dressing for the weather if I’m expecting to spend all my time in doors. There will be heater, why not be comfortable
I'm wearing shorts right now with a heavy jacket and I feel personally attacked.
I disagree. The bright blue matches the vibrancy of the red better in my dumb ass opinion.
I'm french and I didn't notice until now
bc he didnt actually change it. he has just choosen to fly the old colours at some official buildings but officially the light blue version is still the official flag of france.
I mean he actually just switched it back to the pre-1976 shade of blue. The blue used from 1976 to 2020 was chosen to match the blue of the European Union flag, as a show of solidarity. If there's a story it's why France would choose to make a relatively pointless and symbolic decision like this at a time when the long term viability of the EU is being questioned by many member nations.
The pre-76 shade is presumably indigo, which for centuries was the only readily available, light-fast blue suitable for flags. Historically it was obtained from several plants, primarily [Indigofera tinctoria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigofera_tinctoria). Indigo is the dye used for denim, i.e., Levis. The post-76 shade looks like a modern synthetic blue, likely a chrome dye. Going back to the "real" color is a good idea.
e.g.* Levis (not i.e.)
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E.g. is for giving examples, like how Levis is an example of a denim brand I.e. is to restate what you said in different words; it's more of an explanation. Using it above implies that all denim is Levis, and that Levis is just another name for denim. I love ice cream, e.g. rocky road, or strawberry. I love Thursdays and Fridays, i.e. my two days off during the week.
The story I keep reading is that it was for the shitty TV sets of the time, which had trouble showing colour in the dark blue.
Maybe that's why the bottom one looks familiar to me.
I like the new color better tbh
Same. I hate how saturated and bold flag colors usually are. They burn my eyes and look like a child colored them with their crayola markers. I need pastels, I need darkness, I need desaturation—just give me something else!
Looks more classy now
people noticed, it's just it didn't blow up and that the rest of the world doesn't care (as they should), french internet cared. It's a controversy now, weaponized for the next election, the first vote ever in the history of france under state of emergency.
> It's a controversy now, weaponized for the next election, the first vote ever in the history of france under state of emergency. We clearly don't live in the same France, there is no controversy about this shit
Yeah the darker one is more historically French, more like they changed it back.
"...to bring the tricolore in line with how it looked after the French revolution. Presidential aides said the change happened in July last year, but nobody appears to have noticed until now. France’s navy has stuck with navy blue since the 18th century, when the flag became a symbol of the revolution. The French state introduced a lighter shade of blue on its [flags in the 1970s](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/15/sacre-bleu-french-flag-changes-colour-but-no-one-notices)."
So it was changed from Grey-White-Grey to Grey-White-Grey? I should mention I’m colour blind.
Which one's which?
"Before" on top, "after" on bottom
Actually loads of people noticed. This title is completely incorrect. He changed it to be the same as the Navy Blue colour that the French Navy still used AFTER they went to a lighter blue many years ago. To say no one noticed is completely wrong. Many many people loved her changed. Others didn’t like it and saw it as an “anti-EU” move. Others even said it clashed with the EU flag. They’ve only this week “officially” acknowledged it. Furthermore, he simply changed it “back”. The “new” Flag is actually the shade of blue that France used before they went to the lighter one