Seamarks/Colours

Seamark tagging

Colours

The tags defined on this page will render in various nautical charts.

This page defines values for the "seamark:<object>:colour" and "seamark:<object>:colour_pattern" tags.

There is a set of standard colours defined in the S-100 attribute catalogue.

Colour (COLOUR)	seamark:<object>:colour	Rendering
White	white
Black	black
Red	red
Green	green
Blue	blue
Yellow	yellow
Grey	grey
Brown	brown
Amber	amber
Violet	violet
Orange	orange
Magenta	magenta
Pink	pink

Colour patterns

Painted object with more than one colour can be specified by listing those colours in a semi-colon separated list. When this is done, a colour pattern tag must be used in addition to the colour tag.

Pattern (COLPAT)	seamark:<object>:colour_pattern	Definition
Horizontal stripes	horizontal	Straight bands or stripes of differing colours painted horizontally.
Vertical stripes	vertical	Straight bands or stripes of differing colours painted vertically.
Diagonal stripes	diagonal	Straight bands or stripes of differing colours painted diagonally.
Squared	squared	Often referred to as checker plate, where alternate colours are used to create squares similar to a chess or draught board. The pattern may be straight or diagonal.
Stripes (direction unknown)	stripes	Straight bands or stripes of differing colours painted in an unknown direction.
Border stripe	border	A band or stripe of colour which is displayed around the outer edge of the object, which may also form a border to an inner pattern or plain colour.
Vertical cross	cross	A vertical cross of one colour painted on a background of a different colour.
Diagonal cross	saltire	A diagonal cross of one colour painted on a background of a different colour.