To use 'color' or 'colour'

[epicallan]

There are places where we use color and colour with in the data hub project. I like color its shorter and its already in lots of places, @dw8547 likes colour and she prefers I refactor and adopt it.
This has become a minor issue due to its use in the data revolution tables. Those tables have a color column labelled colour. This forced me to write a little extra code to take that in account. I hate writing extra code.

Can we agree on a standard to adopt throughout the project.

[akmiller01]

I would agree with "color" for use in code. The tricky part is that Comms will not accept "color" anywhere public facing, and that could include column names in downloadable datasets.

[epicallan]

ohh I hadn't realised column names in downloadable tables or in downloadable JSON data would be an issue.

[akmiller01]

Might be good to double-check with Comms, but I imagine that unless it's completely unavoidable, they'll want "colour" in anything external.

[dw8547]

color is a US version of the word and since we are UK based (in terms of HQ and output) we should use colour across all products etc. Please let me know where to update.