I wonder how much more expensive was it to create the parachute with the code.
If you were planning on building these for something where the cost of the parachute would actually matter, and need to do so at scale, perhaps you'd switch to a single-color parachute (with simple orientation/tracking markings). This discussion isn't really interesting at all.
The color of the parachute? It was probably not even a line item. As a sibling comment pointed out, they'd still would've colored it in a way that helped with tracking and orientation.