[css4-color] Grayscale shorthand (with alpha)

I find myself writing things like rgba(0, 0, 0, .5) or rgba(192, 192, 
192, .8) dozens of times a day, mostly for shadows. It's always some 
shade of gray with some alpha value.

Do you think there's room for a grayscale color shorthand?

Maybe something like *gray(255, .5)* == rgba(255, 255, 255, .5) or 
*la(50%, .9)* == hsla(0, 0%, 50%, .9)

It probably seems like the few saved characters aren't worth a new 
function or syntax, but it just seems so redundant every time I type 
this stuff out. rgba(255, 255, 255, .2) ... ugh.

What do you think?

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Rudolph Gottesheim

Received on Tuesday, 17 April 2012 09:01:49 UTC