The color of money

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“We put a man on the moon, so why can’t we provide the Pantone colors for every banknote in the world?”

They can and they did. Money.co.uk made a painstaking inventory* of the most popular bills from 157 countries so that geeks like us could waste even more time online. A few surprises:

  • Most notes aren’t green, although green is the most common note color

  • Writers are featured on the notes of 153 countries (so writing does pay, sort of)

  • Turtles appear on nine nations’ notes.

(c) money.co.uk

Could come in handy for depicting different currencies in charts, for example (if your branding guidelines allow).

*”To ascertain the HEX codes of each currency, we first downloaded an image of either the most popular note in each country, or the denomination closest to a £20 note (which is currently the most widely circulated note in the UK). We then fed all images through HEX Picker software, Colour Thief, and matched that to colour names using script from Colour-blindness.com.” (www.money.uk.co)