[css-color] vendor named color enhancement

Hello,


My name is Alex Cohen and I work for X-Rite/PANTONE.


For a while now I’ve been contemplating the idea of extending css named colors to include vendor specific colors that are used across other industries such as print. Before going ahead and writing up a full proposal, I want to get the opinion of the people on this list to see if it is something you might be interested in.


The idea is pretty simple. As you probably already know, Pantone is pretty well known across the printing industry for it’s color standards. Designers can specify Pantone color in a simple and efficient manner and rest assured that the final output product will reflect what they imagined. We want to apply that same concept to the web.


A good example I like to use is a can of Coke. Wherever you are, anywhere you go, you will recognize the red they use, it’s their “brand” color. It’s important that this color be reproduced correctly across all their manufacturing plants so that you can compare two cans printed in totally different locations and not see a difference in color.


The same could be applied to the web through a new set of vendor specific css color names.


We’ve done a couple of trials here at Pantone and have gotten some exciting results. We have a patch submitted to WebKit which shows the idea in a working state.


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159963



A quick idea of how the vendor specific naming could work:

  *   start with a vendor specific prefix.
  *   continue with a color specific indicator.
  *   finish with a book marker.


Example:

Actual PANTONE Color Name: PANTONE 101 C

Web PANTONE Color Name: p101c


Curious to know what you think.


regards,

Alex Cohen

X-Rite/PANTONE

alexcohen@pantone.com

Received on Friday, 22 July 2016 20:38:35 UTC