- From: Stewart Brodie <S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 12:29:28 +0100 (BST)
- To: koblas@novomedia.com (David Koblas)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
David Koblas wrote: > > I just came across this table today and noticed a nit. > > CMY colorspace and RGB color space have a very simple translation > [C,M,Y] = [1-R, 1-G, 1-B] (0..1 color values) > between them. The 16 widely know colors rename two of these colors. > Fuchsia == Magenta > Aqua == Cyan > This makes very little sense to me. Magenta & Cyan are the standard names for these colours. Quite why people (Microsoft?) felt it necessary to rename them is a mystery. Fuchsia is extremely vague (fuchsias come in a variety of colours). -- Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/ http://delenn.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
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