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The color came from when I used the code from the LA Streets template. At least one other template used the same scheme so I thought it might be some kind of project standard. But agree that a Seattle scheme would look better. –
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Apologies for the late contribution to this discussion, but I just want to mention that the Seattle flag is not a widely used symbol for the city. As the
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says, only three copies were ever made. City hall itself only flies the US and Washington flags. A color in wider government use is that of the
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we should not get too carried away with colorizing this template. It might be just as well to leave it to the default navbox color scheme.
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The shade of green I used is pretty much the only standard we have on this, as it comes from the
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Green works. For what it’s worth, it looks like the MUTCD specifies Pantone 342, which is more
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similar, but curious that there seems to be a discrepancy). —
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used by other highway (state and national) templates.
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