{"id":2205,"date":"2014-11-02T10:43:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T10:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2014-11-02T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T10:43:54","slug":"bbc-ident-colours","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/bbc-ident-colours\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Ident Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Albert Barber<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This is on the BBC website and credited to Andy Wiseman \u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;In 1988 the BBC decided it needed a stronger corporate brand image \u2013 to be used on and off air, and across all its commercial product. The new image (designer, Michael Peters) updated the traditional BBC \u201cLogo\u201d 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) &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BBC_Ident_Cols_001.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2207\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BBC_Ident_Cols_001.png\" alt=\"BBC_Ident_Cols_001\" width=\"203\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ian Hillson<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I understood that the colours represented Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland \u00a0&#8211; there was also an all-grey version for England.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Techo-purists were upset that the stripes of colour were in the wrong sequence &#8211; colour signals have always been referred to as RGB, not BRG.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Techo-purists were also miffed that the RBG assembly areas at \u00a0TVC were<br \/>\n&gt; also out of sequence &#8211; but then, they <i><b>were<\/b><\/i> pre-colour.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Dave Plowman, Philip Tyler<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you plot light spectrum in the common way starting with the lowest frequency, it reads RGB. \u00a0 Resistor colours could be said to follow the light spectrum: \u00a0red is 2 in the resistor colour code, green 5 and blue 6. So the numbers \/ colours are written in their ascending order: RGB<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nAlthough Philip Tyler thought the colour sequence could have been BRG &#8211; \u00a0then you get 625!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Barber This is on the BBC website and credited to Andy Wiseman \u2026 &#8220;&#8230;In 1988 the BBC decided it needed a stronger corporate brand image \u2013 to be used on and off air, and across all its commercial product. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/bbc-ident-colours\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-stories","category-write-up"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/author\/alec\/","display_name":"Alec Bray"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 12 years ago","modified":"Updated 12 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 2, 2014","modified":"Updated on November 2, 2014"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 2, 2014 10:43 am","modified":"Updated on November 2, 2014 10:43 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2205\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}