- From: Robert Hess <roberth@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 07:43:37 -0700
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
I've been following this facinating discussion on colors, and figured I might as well chime in (heck, everybody -else- is!) I've written a number of articles about colors, including the web colors, as well as touching upon the X11 named colors. I one time built up some calculation tables to rank/sort the various colors of the 216 web colors, and from that created a chart that illustrated the fairly even distribution that these colors provide across the HSL space (see the second chart in: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebge n/html/colorpick.asp), I then thought it might be interesting to perform the same calculations on the X11 colors and see if I could build up a similar chart to help show the distribution pattern. It was -hideous-. Up until then, I found the X11 names an interesting way to provide colors (I still use "peru" :-), but the distribution pattern that was emerging showed absolutely no attempt at incorporating a broad range of colors. You might be able to find "some" representation across the various color value charts, but there was clearly no rhyme or reason to the selection. You might as well be using a Revlon Lipstick chart. I'd much rather see a Crayola (tm) named color chart with value modifiers implemented, at least it would represent a time-tested product that was "attempting" to provide a usefull collection of real-world colors. ...and on that topic, has anybody ever seen a Crayola RGB chart? -Robert
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