which colour(notice i spell it with a u because i use english english) for map bonus broders are the best.which is the best for a fantasy map and a real life map.

"British English", not "English English" (wtf does that mean)

It means the same as when norwegians say: Norwegian norwegian.
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I think standard colours is the best for real life and the oppisite for fictional.

Colour seems to be not english-english, but french-english style.

is that english english english or canadian english english?

|> It means the same as when norwegians say: Norwegian norwegian.

No it doesn't; when someone speaks English English I can understand them, when someone speaks Norwegian Norwegian I can tell whether they're counting to five or saying cheers and that's about it. :p

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A while ago I tried talking about the differences between British English and American English with a guy from England. The *moment* I dared utter "British English" he interrupted me. We ended up discussing the differences between "Real English" and American English. (If anyone ever runs into Buffy's Giles they'll have to go with "Real English" versus "[Bloody-colonials](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0533469/quotes?qt0359508) English". ;) )

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|> Colour seems to be not english-english, but french-english style.

What is "french-english"? :o The French word is actually "couleur" (note the extra "e"). And Iron is of course completely right, see also the very first sentence of Wikipedia's article on [colour](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour) and especially the [spelling differences](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-our.2C_-or) article it links to right at the start.

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And, to answer the original question:

- I don't think there's any reason to use different bonus colours for real-life or fantasy maps.
- The most important thing is that each pair of colours you use for bonuses which are "close" to each other (not merely adjacent, if they nearly touch at any point this is still important) those colours should be very easy to distinguish.
- If you use any colours which resemble a WL army colour, don't use something which just resembles it, use something which is identical (so that WL will detect it being equal and [act accordingly](http://blog.warlight.net/index.php/2012/01/warlight-update-1-10/).

@RvW

Do you read the article or just link it? Quote from there:

"These words were first borrowed into English from early Old French and the ending was spelt -or or -ur.[5] After the Norman conquest of England, the ending became -our in Anglo-French in a bid to represent the Old French pronunciation,[6] though color has sometimes been used in English since the 15th century.[7] The -our ending was not only used in English borrowings from Anglo-French"

So this is the "french-english".

i din't want to say British English because english came from england not britain so to say english english will be more appropriate i thought.
Any way this thread is not about american english or french english or english english or british no matter how interesting a thread it makes.
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Thanks rvw but i am looking for a the colour scheme that will make the a map look the best it can.

Urfang, with that reasoning there wouldn't even exist a "British English" (or "English English" for that matter), because English *extensively* borrowed from French. Of course, why even call it "French-English" then; might as well trace things back even further and go with "Italian/Greek-English"...

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Iron, are you looking for a set of specific colours to use?

yes rvw
what is the best combination of colours

RvW
Don't stop there, everything is [Nostratic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostratic_languages)!

Bah. All you English speakers are just frog-eaters in the closet. Any self-respecting Anglo-Saxon speaks [Anglish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglish)! :P

|> coining new words from Germanic roots (such as wordstock for vocabulary)

How about something which doesn't look like "woodstock" at first glance? How about, let's say, "woordenschat"? Looks like I'm (and my 16 million countrymen) are all pretty hardcore Anglo-Saxons then! :p (To be fair though, Dutch has both "woordenschat" and "vocabulair".)

so when will someone answer my question

"Woordenschat", huh? Sounds suspiciously Frisian to me. :P
(disclaimer: I don't know the first thing about the Frisian language. Also, you're probably all Jutes!)
((...I will stop derailing the thread now...))

Well, there is a certain similarity between Frisian and Dutch of course (not so much it's mutually understandable though). However, I wager in Frisian it'd be more like "wurteskat" or something; no idea though, I don't speak it either.
Jutes, as in "Jutland" in Denmark? I wish I were from there, that's where Legoland is! :)

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How about just sticking with the primary colours, add in the secondaries (start with yellow) if you need a few more.

that was the scheme i was using before primaries and secondary.
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
purple
thanks rvw

12 colors:


FF0000 99FF00 00FF00 FF9900 0000FF 0099FF 00FFFF 9966FF FFFF00 FF0099 FF00FF 9900FF
(red, lime, green, orange, blue, light blue, aqua, ivory, yellow, deep pink, fuchsia, dark violet respectively)

Any particular reason you went with 00/99/FF instead of 00/80/FF (or 00/7F/FF)...?

Also, is 9966FF a typo or should it be 9999FF?

12 colours seems much for a small map but for a big map maybe.