The new coalition government today announced its "programme for government", the detailed post-hoc manifesto which sets out what they have agreed to do with shared power. It is, inevitably, a sort of synthesis of their differing positions going into the election, but why is it set out in that rather delicious pea-green colour?
To my left you will see four colours. The first is the background colour from the Conservative party website. The second is the background colour from the website of their junior coalition partner. The third - pay attention at the back - is what happens if you overlay the first two together in Photoshop at 50% opacity; that is, a purely equal blend of the two. The last is the colour used in the coalition document.
Kremlinologists with a kabbalistic colour-chart bent may like to know that the RGB values for the 50/50 shade are 204-204-153. Those for the coalition kiwi are 204-204-51. That is, the blue is slightly underpowered in the resulting mix, relative to a strict 50/50. Make of it what you will.
