Re: [css4-color] Grayscale shorthand (with alpha)

Brian,

are you trying to achieve a colorimetrically correct gray?
I think people just want to go from gray(22) to rgb(22, 22, 22)...

Rik

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>wrote:

> My curiosity is more about...
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> Why is "perfect gray" special vs. the near-grays?
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> For example, are designers only interested in rgb(22, 22, 22, <somealpha>)
> or also rgb(22, 27, 32, <somealpha>)?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:58 PM
> To: Brian Manthos
> Cc: Rudolph Gottesheim; www-style@w3.org
> Subject: Re: [css4-color] Grayscale shorthand (with alpha)
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm curious to hear more about why gray is so popular from an artistic /
> designer perspective.
> >
> > Is it the "black and white" muted photo affect (in which case a filter
> might be better)?   I have a few other guesses as well.
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> "gray" is a wide term here.  Anything between white and black is covered
> there, and those two colors are definitely quite common.  I gave a use-case
> where near-white and near-black are often used for background and text to
> reduce the harshness of pure black-on-white contrast.  Writing that out
> requires, currently, repeating yourself.
> There's a potential readability win for this case.
>
> ~TJ
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