Albert Barber
This is on the BBC website and credited to Andy Wiseman …
“…In 1988 the BBC decided it needed a stronger corporate brand image – to be used on and off air, and across all its commercial product. The new image (designer, Michael Peters) updated the traditional BBC “Logo” by slanting the boxes and adding three coloured flashes underneath the logo blocks. The latter colours represented the phosphors on a colour television (the primary colours of light) …”
Ian Hillson
I understood that the colours represented Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – there was also an all-grey version for England.
Dave Mundy
Techo-purists were upset that the stripes of colour were in the wrong sequence – colour signals have always been referred to as RGB, not BRG.
> Techo-purists were also miffed that the RBG assembly areas at TVC were
> also out of sequence – but then, they were pre-colour.
Dave Plowman, Philip Tyler
If you plot light spectrum in the common way starting with the lowest frequency, it reads RGB. Resistor colours could be said to follow the light spectrum: red is 2 in the resistor colour code, green 5 and blue 6. So the numbers / colours are written in their ascending order: RGB
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Although Philip Tyler thought the colour sequence could have been BRG – then you get 625!
