ELI5, Why are most cheap PCB’s and circuitry green colored

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I just realized that most cheap PCB’s are normally green, especially older ones. Where as custom or higher end PCB’s range wildly in color, why is that?

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any color is possible, but green has been the most popular historically.

Nowadays the reason for green are different. PCB fabricators often pool the boards of different customers together. This is much cheaper and faster, but only works of they have the same color. So cheaper boards are in green by “majority vote”.

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