Sign Colours

[the cheesecake man]

On the way home yesterday I started thinking about how many different colours appeared on each sign.

So as it's only days to Christmas how many of the following twelve possibilities can we find examples of? I've done three to get us started.

ONE
TWO blue,white
THREE green,white,black
FOUR
FIVE
SIX green,white,yellow,blue,red,brown
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE

[JohnnyMo]

FOUR
FIVE Not the A66 sign & in case anyone object of grounds of there should not be such a sign an alternative

Seven should be possible Black White Yellow Green Blue (Parking or Motorway) Brown & Red (Hospital, Station or Warning), after that maybe a loony left council with a Pride flag incorporated into a sign

[jnty]

Already been done but I quite like this FIVE.

[Conekicker]

On the way home yesterday I started thinking about how many different colours appeared on each sign.

So as it's only days to Christmas how many of the following twelve possibilities can we find examples of? I've done three to get us started.

ONE
TWO blue,white
THREE green,white,black
FOUR
FIVE
SIX green,white,yellow,blue,red,brown
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE

The most you can get is nine. These are the official colours plus white and black:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/traffic-sig ... ur-palette

ONE white

[Truvelo]

I'm sure if there's a sign which features the logo or emblem of an organisation then it would be possible to have 12 colours.

[jnty]

I count at least 10 on this one

https://maps.app.goo.gl/UL9oJVW3iedcxJ81A

Better photo in a different location: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi ... tfield.JPG

[Nathan_A_RF]

The most you can get is nine. These are the official colours plus white and black:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/traffic-sig ... ur-palette

ONE white

And grey too.

[JohnnyMo]

...
Seven should be possible Black White Yellow Green Blue (Parking or Motorway) Brown & Red (Hospital, Station or Warning), after that maybe a loony left council with a Pride flag incorporated into a sign

SEVEN

[JohnnyMo]

The most you can get is nine. These are the official colours plus white and black:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/traffic-sig ... ur-palette

ONE white

And grey too.

Will this ONE count?

[Conekicker]

Eight

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.41776 ... 384!8i8192

[Conekicker]

The most you can get is nine. These are the official colours plus white and black:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/traffic-sig ... ur-palette

ONE white

And grey too.

Would a backing board count?

[Conekicker]

Ten or eleven or twelve??

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.58730 ... 8192?hl=en

God alone knows how many!!

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.39426 ... 8192?hl=en

[Glen]

A full colour photo, so who knows how many colours.

[jervi]

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8328915 ... 384!8i8192

Seven.
White
Black
Green
Yellow
Blue
Red
Brown

[Truvelo]

A full colour photo, so who knows how many colours.

16.7 million

[SteelCamel]

I'm inclined to agree - without counting full-colour elements like photos and logos, it's not possible to get the higher numbers. It appears that there are 10 standard colours - the seven on the list jervi linked to plus black, white and grey.

One colour is a challenge. Know Your Traffic Signs lists reflective markers as a sign, and they're in one colour, but I'm not convinced that counts. The pre-Worboys red triangle is only one colour, as long as you consider it separately to the plate below.

Two through five are easy, there's plenty of standard signs that cover these ranges (the "traffic lights" warning has five).

From six upwards you're looking at the more complex direction signs. Nine is possible - a sign with a primary route (green, orange), motorway (blue, white), diversion route symbol (black, yellow), tourist (brown, white again), hospital (red, white again) and emergency services route (light green, white again, yellow again) has nine. Not sure any examples exist though. I can't see any way to get all ten - unless you count the backing board, grey is only used in "zone end" signs, which shouldn't appear on a direction sign.

[AndyB]

Don’t forget fluorescent yellow on backing boards.

Meantime, ONE.

[SteelCamel]

Don’t forget fluorescent yellow on backing boards.

I was counting that as "yellow". Is the colour of yellow backing boards different to the colour of temporary signs such as diversions, or of waiting restriction signs?

[Conekicker]

Don’t forget fluorescent yellow on backing boards.

I was counting that as "yellow". Is the colour of yellow backing boards different to the colour of temporary signs such as diversions, or of waiting restriction signs?

In theory it's all the same. In practise different manufacturers produce very slightly different shades.

[Glen]

I was counting that as "yellow". Is the colour of yellow backing boards different to the colour of temporary signs such as diversions, or of waiting restriction signs?

There are yellow backing boards



..And there are fluorescent backing boards.