Key:roof:colour

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Description
Colour of the roof Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: buildings
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Requires
Useful combination
Status: de facto

The colour of the roof of a building or building part. Mostly used for 3D mapping.

The value syntax is identical to that of colour=*. Note, however, that the interpretation of colour names differs between different 3D rendering applications. See ListOfColours for a list of predefined colors or use hexadecimal notation, e.g. #FFFFFF for white.

Examples

On choosing the color name/code the taginfo page can be checked for most used values: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/roof:colour#values

Here are some often used values and nice examples

colour roof:colour= description
  gray grey
  red red
  black black
  #999999 silver
  brown brown
  #bbad8e beige
  white sometimes on hospitals and industrial buildings
  maroon maroon coloured brick rooftiles
  silver silver
  #c75d4d bright red brick rooftilet, often only brand new tiles
  #a3331e red coloured brick rooftiles
  #4a0505 very dark red brick rooftiles
  #28282d black bricks
  #A2A0A0 a nice grey for a lot of roofings
  #43b3ae verdigris for copper roofs, same colour as statue of liberty
  #21373d one kind of traditional Chinese roof_tile colour

A good helper to seek for colour hex values is https://colornames.org/. Use the search for what color you have in mind.

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