- From: Kornel Lesiński <kornel@geekhood.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 23:17:33 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>
>> 2. CSS is tied more closely to RGB than CMYK >> >> If there was black(x) I'd expect it to be a shorthand for cmyk(0,0,0,x), but >> use of actual CMYK colors in CSS can be a can of worms (it should be subject >> to color profiles, but then black(0) may be different than rgb(0,0,0)). >> >> However in the RGB world white(x) can be simply explained as rgb(255*x, >> 255*x, 255*x), but the same doesn't make sense for black: rgb(0*x, 0*x, >> 0*x). > > Black is just (100% - x) for each component. Well, of course it is. My point was that because of the inversion the formula for black->rgb isn't as simple and elegant as for white->rgb. -- regards, Kornel
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