Key:roof:colour

The colour of the roof of a building or building part.

Mostly used for 3D building visualization. Note, that the interpretation of colour names differs between different 3D rendering applications.

It should be used together with the building=* or building:part=* tag.

Tagging

• The colour should be given in hexadecimal, preceded by a # sign, e.g. #FFFFFF.
• You can use a descriptive name for the basic colours, e.g. white, red. However, the interpretation of the colour given in this form may vary among different 3D renderers.

Example values

Popular roof types

Description	Colour		Photo
Tile, brick-red colour		#E96B39
tar paper roof, grey colour, flat roofs often have this colour		#808080
copper roof, patina-covered		#6EBE9F
crimson		#DC143C
graphite		#36454F
rosewood		#532F28
green roof		#469536

most often used values in database

Most commonly used values from Taginfo

colour	roof:colour=	description
	gray	grey
	red	red
	black	black
	#999999	silver
	brown	brown
	#bbad8e	beige
	white	sometimes on hospitals and industrial buildings
	maroon	may be used for coloured brick rooftiles
	silver
	lightgrey
	darkgrey
	green
	blue

Tips

• It is not always easy to choose a colour from a photo. Photos are of varying quality and colours can look different in different photos.

Colour differences of the same building in different photos

Colour differences of the same building at different hours

Early in the morning (too much yellow colour)	Sunny noon (too strong contrasts)	Late morning, light overcast

• Beware of optical illusions – a colour in contrast with other colours can look different than it does on its own. Examples:

Both the yellow dots and the backgrounds of the fields on which they are located have identical colours.

The two small squares are exactly the same colour, but the right one looks darker.

• Instead of this tag, you can use building:material=*, based on which 3D renderers often assign a colour.

Colour selection tools

• Hex to Color Picker – Convert hex to rgb color and image from
• Color Picker – reading colour from a photograph
• Sass Color Generator – selecting a darker/lighter colour for the specified colour
• Encycolorpedia
• Lch and Lab colour and gradient picker
• https://colornames.org/search/ – search for hexcodes of color names
• HTML Colors

See also

• building:colour=*
• roof:shape=*
• roof:material=*
• roof:levels=*
• roof:height=*
• roof:orientation=*
• roof:direction=*
• colour=*
• Simple 3D Buildings – core tags for 3D buildings
• 3D tagging – collection of additional 3D tags and related ideas

Possible tagging mistakes

building:roof:colour=*

More details at taginfo

• building:roof:colour=*

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Related terms: ‹ roof color ›^(en-us)