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How Flags Actually Pick Their Blues
When a government needs to specify the exact blue for a national flag, they don't just pick "blue." They reach for Pantone, RAL, or NCS — three completely different systems with different philosophies about what color even is. This episode unpacks the hidden complexity behind color specification: why Pantone is a recipe book, not a thermometer; how RAL defines color by spectral reflectance curves; and why NCS maps to human perception instead of ink mixing. Plus, why the French flag is almost fractally complicated, and how Apple's "space gray" involves proprietary anodization specs that go far…
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