What I expected to happen was...:
Sign colors should always stay the same, the brightness shouldn't change
What actually happened was...:
Signs facing south and north have slightly darker colors, for example white turns into grey, aqua into dark aqua.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get signs with colored text, try this:
/give @p sign 1 0 {BlockEntityTag:{Text1:"{\"text\":\"\",\"extra\":[{\"text\":\"===============\",\"color\":\"white\"}]}",Text2:"{\"text\":\"\",\"extra\":[{\"text\":\" Test Text\",\"color\":\"aqua\"}]}",Text3:"{\"text\":\"\",\"extra\":[{\"text\":\"Text Test\",\"color\":\"green\"}]}",Text4:"{\"text\":\"\",\"extra\":[{\"text\":\"===============\",\"color\":\"white\"}]}",id:"Sign"}}
2. Place one sign (or more) facing west or east, and one (or more) facing south or north
3. See the difference? It's really annoying...
I don't actually know if you can see the colors on the signs on the picture I attached... Let me just hope so
The issue here is that the signs themselves are shaded, based on the direction they are facing (like normal blocks) while the text is always full brightness.
EDIT: actually it seems like the text is always LOW brightness, even when it should be higher.