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Sources and picture credits

Rang stands on the work of volunteers who document the world in the open.

Facts

Wikidata (public domain, CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Every colour page and country overview links to the article and the record it was written from.

Wording and attribution

Rang does not copy text. Colour pages and country overviews take their facts from the Wikipedia article named at the foot of each page and are rewritten in Rang's own words. A check compares each page with its source; any page that carries over more than a short phrase is rewritten before it is shown. Because the pages are adapted from Wikipedia, they credit the article and its contributors, link to the original, and are shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Pictures

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Colour values

Values in the swatch book come from Wikipedia's list of colours and its list of the traditional colours of Japan; each swatch links to its source. Values on colour pages come from the same lists, from Wikidata, or from the article's own information box. Values for festivals, cities and emotions are approximations chosen by the Rang desk. RGB, HSL and CMYK figures, harmonies, contrast ratios and colour-blindness views are worked out from the hex value by standard formulas.

Emotions, meanings by country, colour cities, the calendar, concepts and the glossary

Original text by the Rang desk, written with AI assistance. Each page lists its sources, and each note on what a colour means in a country links to a Wikipedia article that backs it. Festival dates are worked out by rule (fixed dates, Easter, and the Hebrew, Islamic, Chinese, Persian and Ethiopian calendars); days set by other lunisolar calendars use published dates. Islamic dates depend on the sighting of the moon and can shift by a day.

Good reading

The articles listed under "Good reading" on a colour page are ones its Wikipedia article cites, from museums, universities and well-known publishers. Rang shows the headline and the publisher and links to the original; it does not copy the article.

Map

Country outlines are from Natural Earth (public domain).

News

The news wire shows only a headline and the outlet's name. Every link leads to the original publisher.

Typefaces

Newsreader, Geist and Geist Mono, all under the SIL Open Font License.

If something is wrong

Write to rang@cleartrust.cc and it will be fixed quickly.

The weekly palette

Every Monday: seven colours you may not know, what the world is wearing this week, and one idea about colour.