The U.S. Government Has Their Own Official Color System - Co

Last week a couple of contractors in a cherry picker repainted the orangeish-yellow support brackets for the Walk/Don't Walk signs on my corner:

上周，几个承包商在一个樱桃采摘机重新油漆橙黄色的支持支架的步行/不要走在我的角落标志：

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It never occurred to me that those colors are regulated by the government, but of course they are. And as the

Washington Post

reports, our government doesn't mess with Pantone; instead they've got their own internal system, sexily named Federal Standard 595C - Colors Used in Government Procurement.

我从来没有想到这些颜色是由政府规定的，但当然是。正如《

华盛顿邮报》

报道的那样，我们的政府并没有和潘通混在一起;相反，他们有自己的内部系统，性感地命名为联邦标准595 C--政府采购中使用的颜色。

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The government started trying to regulate colors around World War I--you can read a lengthy history on the process

here

--and today the hues of everything from aircraft carriers to highway signs to post office mailboxes all boil down to just 650 color chips.

政府在第一次世界大战期间开始尝试规范颜色--你可以

在这里

阅读关于这个过程的漫长历史--今天，从航空母舰到高速公路标志到邮局邮箱的所有颜色都归结为650个色卡。

11120 OSHA Safety Red

11120 OSHA安全红

12243 DoT Highway Orange

橙子大道12243号

13415 School Bus Yellow

13415校车黄色

14066 DoT Highway Green

14066 DoT Highway绿色

15095 Post Office Light Blue

15095邮局浅蓝

20059 Forest Service Sign Standard Brown

20059年森林服务标志标准布朗

You can view all of the chips

here

, but only some of the colors are listed with names, and some of those names are unmistakably American in style--like "15450 Air Superiority Blue." For real.

你可以

在这里

看到所有的芯片，但只有一些颜色的名字列出，其中一些名字是明确无误的美国风格-如“15450空气质量蓝色。“是真实的。

For descriptions of what colors belong to what objects, as we've listed in the six samples above, you'll have to click

here

. At that latter link you can also order physical chips, and boy, going after government contracts ain't cheap--they cost 50 freaking dollars per chip, or you can order the whole set for $1,250.

对于什么颜色属于什么对象的描述，正如我们在上面的六个示例中列出的那样，你必须点击这里。

在后一个环节，你也可以订购物理芯片，男孩，追求政府合同并不便宜-他们的价格为50美元每芯片，或者你可以订购整套1250美元。

But, if you're just creating some in-computer renderings and trying to get the exact shade of green the Department of Transportation uses on their highway signs, you can just hit the link above and use Photoshop's handy eyedropper tool.

但是，如果你只是创建一些计算机渲染，并试图获得确切的绿色阴影的交通部使用的高速公路标志，你可以点击上面的链接，并使用Photoshop的方便滴管工具。