[talk-au] Australian Standard 1743

[Luke Woolley]

This is from Chapter 10: Colours. Unfortunately, I do not appear to
have access to AS2700 documents, which must be purchased separately.

10 COLOURS
10.1 Non-reflective colours The colours of unreflectorized road signs
shall closely
approximate the following colours defined in AS 2700:
Red — Colour R13 Signal Red
Yellow — Colour Y15 Sunflower
Brown — Colour X65 Dark Brown
Blue — Colour B23 Bright Blue
Standard Green — Colour G12 Holly Green
Green — Colour G13 Emerald
NOTE: Individual reference cards for the above AS 2700 colours are
available from Standards
Australia.
10.2 Retroreflective colours Retroreflective colours shall be as
defined and shall fall
within the relevant colour space specified in AS/NZS 1906.1.
10.3 Fluorescent colours Fluorescent colours for traffic signs shall
conform to the
commonly accepted colour designations red, orange or yellow.
NOTE: No colour specification for fluorescent traffic sign materials
existed at the time of
publication of this Standard.
10.4 Backs of signs The backs of signs shall be of neutral appearance.
Light coloured,
glossy or polished surfaces shall not be used.

2010/1/12 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> 2010/1/12 Luke Woolley <lswoolley at gmail.com>:
>> Because i'm a student, I get access to the entire standards library. The catch is that the documents have a 48 hour time bomb on them. I can try to obtain a PDF copy for you. It's roughly 10mb.
>
> At this stage we're mostly interested in the colour table, should be Appendix C.
>
> Hopefully it will include either RGB or something similar to make it
> easily reproducible.
>