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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago

It's the color of their paper:

When the FT started out, newspapers were black and white. But in 1893 – five years after the FT was founded – we began to publish the paper in a light salmon colour, to stand apart from competitors on the newsstand, and reduce costs by using unbleached recycled paper.