- From: David Koblas <koblas@novomedia.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 19:13:18 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
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. David --koblas@novomedia.com > > ><!-- There are also 16 widely known color names: > > > > Black = #000000 Green = #008000 > > Silver = #C0C0C0 Lime = #00FF00 > > Gray = #808080 Olive = #808000 > > White = #FFFFFF Yellow = #FFFF00 > > Maroon = #800000 Navy = #000080 > > Red = #FF0000 Blue = #0000FF > > Purple = #800080 Teal = #008080 > > Fuchsia= #FF00FF Aqua = #00FFFF > > > > These colors were originally picked as being the standard > > 16 colors supported with the Windows VGA palette. The above > > gives the sRGB values in hex (#RRGGBB). > > --> > > There is a problem with half of these colors -- "80" and "C0" are not in > the 216-color dither-free cross-platform palette used by Netscape, Mosaic, > and Internet Explorer. The included codes are 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, and FF. > > I'm not crazy about the palette (only 4 shades of grey?!), but it *is* the > standard cross-platform palette. > > __________________________________________________________________________ > Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript, > Mountain View, CA ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML > http://www.natural-innovations.com/ Musician - Guitarist, Songwriter
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