# What color is your passport? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 24, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553 "2019-07-24T16:57:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Majestic\_Lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Majestic\_Lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Majestic_Lee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/41 "2019-07-26T21:52:16Z")
Burgundy. God knows what it’ll be by the time fuckwit Boris leaves power. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/42 "2019-07-27T05:31:17Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > No, that’s clarete. [This is claret](https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&client=firefox-b-d&biw=1875&bih=903&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=KVI5Xb7AFYWp8gLBx4XoCg&q=claret&oq=claret&gs_l=img.3..0l10.13323.13323..13849...0.0..0.431.431.4-1......0....1..gws-wiz-img.d3y_C4i1M-M&ved=0ahUKEwj--L2vvs_jAhWFlFwKHcFjAa0Q4dUDCAY&uact=5) > > Clarete/clairet is a pink wine ~ rosé/_rosado_. Claret is an English term for Bordeaux red wine, usually a dark dry red, basically synonymous with burgundy as a colour. > [@SanVito](#): > > That’s not claret. That’s rosé. > > Claret is the colour of bordeaux wine. So English takes a word which refers to a specific wine and its specific shade, and uses it to refer to a different wine. You guys are fucked up in the tastebuds. :smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/43 "2019-07-27T06:10:23Z")
Currently dark blue. Formerly olive green. Both US. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/44 "2019-07-27T08:28:55Z")
Aussie, dark blue. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/45 "2019-07-27T17:12:38Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Do you mean :rolleyes: as in “I was only joking, duh”, or as in “I cannot read and you cannot make me”? Do you realize how difficult it is to tell the difference in electronic communication? The English phrasing “X is for Y” does not necessarily mean that all Xs are Y. So he probably saw your comment as a needless nitpick. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/46 "2019-07-29T04:26:54Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > Blue, but I have an old expired green one that shows me with hip, groovy 1970s hair. What a coincidence. I was just going through some old papers and found a passport of mine from 1966. I was only 12 at the time and never actually used it. It was also green and my hair was a radical 60s crewcut. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/47 "2019-07-29T04:55:42Z")
My US passport is blue, but I did have a green one once. It was a special edition honoring Benjamin Franklin. They do stuff like that from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/48 "2019-07-29T18:40:38Z")
My U.S. passport is blue. My wife’s Korean passport is green. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/49 "2019-07-29T18:56:55Z")
Argentina, dark blue. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/50 "2019-07-29T19:55:27Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > There are only 4 different colors of passports > > Blue is considered the color for the “New World” > Red for current or historical communist countries > Green for primarily muslim countries > Black is the rarist > > [There are Only Four Passport Colors in the World, and This is the Reason Why / Bright Side](https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/there-are-only-four-passport-colors-in-the-world-and-this-is-the-reason-why-315960/) Israel is blue as well ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/51 "2019-07-29T23:32:13Z")
Black - New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/52 "2019-07-31T01:27:09Z")
Mine is a New Zealand passport, and it’s black. But then, black is kind of our national colour. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/53 "2019-07-31T01:28:12Z")
**Richard Pearse** —snap! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/54 "2019-07-31T06:54:19Z")
Canadian: dark blue with gold-coloured text and symbol and elaborate coat of arms. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/55 "2019-07-31T08:11:07Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > Black - New Zealand. Indeedly doodly. With a silver fern [on the front](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=nz+passport&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4xoS-2t7jAhWDT30KHTTBCdwQ_AUIESgB&biw=1662&bih=1072). ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/56 "2019-07-31T08:46:02Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Indeedly doodly. With a silver fern [on the front](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=nz+passport&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4xoS-2t7jAhWDT30KHTTBCdwQ_AUIESgB&biw=1662&bih=1072). Pretty eh? My old ones were blue, as I’m sure yours were too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553.md?page=2)