Office zoning color blue or yellow

[DiArmada 16]

hello fellow mayors,

 

low and high density commercial are blue when zoning.

the demand bar is also blue for commercial, while industrial is yellow.

office zones are blue as well, as a newb I assumed office space counts as commercial too.

so I was quite surprised to read in the virtual manual that office space is in fact industrial space.

when industrial demand goes up you can build offices.

wouldn't it be more logical if office zoning would have a yellow colour?

[BlakeMW 84]

Office is actually cyan, not blue (within the RGB color scheme, cyan is an equal mix of green and blue so it's technically as much green as it is blue)

Zone types are in pairs: [LowR, HighR], [LowC, HighC], [Ind, Office] and this pairwise arrangement makes it not unsurprising that industry and office are joined.

As for why they didn't use a color closer to yellow: I think they wanted to emphasize that office is a different kind of "thing" to industry. They both fit within the "workforce" category (both industry and office are primary job providers) but industry is dirty manufacturing with a heavy dependence on road networks, and office is clean telecommunications with little dependence on roads. So they chose yellow to indicate that industry is dirty, and a sky-like color to indicate that office is clean.