On 2014-07-23 Lea Verou wrote: > The gray() functional notation [1] is a great idea for specifying > desaturated colors with varying degrees of transparency in a concise > and > readable way. However, I’m not sure about the naming. Right now, the > named color `gray` corresponds to gray(50%). gray(0%) is black and > gray(100%) is white. Some XSL-FO formatters use 'grayscale' psedo profile for this: http://mediawiki.renderx.com/index.php/XEP_User_Guide/Appendix_A_XSL-FO_Conformance#Color_Specifiers But I take it rather as a syntactic sugar for CMYK: 0,0,0,blac(K). However, if I understand correctly, CSS gray is sRGB based and hence potentially problematic for printing when transformed to device profiles. I like the approach of pseudo Gray/CMYK profiles as they allow me defining exact values which are preserved (in the PDF output) without profile conversions. So when I define gray, it is printed as shade of black instead of RGB composition. Btw, as non native speaker I am very often confused by grey/gray mess and it is unclear which one to use ;-) Would 'lightness' be misleading here? JanReceived on Wednesday, 23 July 2014 23:11:52 UTC
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