What are the color codes on the English Bible Versions Timeline?

Theophan Dort · 2025-04-02T17:14:11+00:00

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I very rarely look at this tool, but, but do any of you know what the color codes on this list mean?

And while I'm asking about a tool I almost never use anyway, the timeline seems to end in 2005 with the TNIV. I think it came with my "English Bible Collection" many years ago. Does anyone know whether this tool is still current, and if there is any plan to update it?

Thanks!

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DMB

Looks like just a sequential color series to visually separate the entries:

Screenshot 2025-04-02 at 10.27.06 AM.png

Francis

In the screenshot I posted, some of them had little colored circles and some of them did NOT

@Theophan Dort in your original screenshot, dots correspond to entries corresponding to a specific year. The entries that correspond to a spans of years are normally indicated by rectangles when the form factor allows it and reduced to lines when the form factor is reduced like yours was.

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DMB

Looks like just a sequential color series to visually separate the entries:

Theophan Dort

Well, isn't that interesting? In the screenshot I posted, some of them had little colored circles and some of them did NOT, so it seemed obvious that they must mean something, be some sort of color code. But when I closed it and opened it up in a different view, maybe a different degree of magnification or something, now they all look like they do in your screenshot, and they seem like they're just going in a rotating sequence of colors.

Not the intriguing answer I was hoping for, but it looks like it's the answer — thanks!

DMB

Regarding your question on 2005/TNIV that was the tale-end of Libronix … Logos4 began the new and chaotic.

Yasmin Stephen

Not the intriguing answer I was hoping for, but it looks like it's the answer — thanks!

Not my question but I feel a bit deflated as well … I was hoping they meant something 😄

Francis

In the screenshot I posted, some of them had little colored circles and some of them did NOT

Theophan Dort

Ah, Francis — that explains it! Thanks!