- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:59:55 -0400
- To: Alex Cohen <AlexCohen@xrite.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
2016-07-21 16:16 GMT-04:00 Alex Cohen <AlexCohen@xrite.com>: > Example: > > Actual PANTONE Color Name: PANTONE 101 C > > Web PANTONE Color Name: p101c > > > Curious to know what you think. Quick thoughts (more like old thoughts that have not been given new consideration, so these might be quite out of date): 1. How do you actually ensure colour accuracy on the web? To me this is pretty impossible, which means designers are just given a false sense of assurance, when the web site visitor can actually be looking at something very unlike the specified colour. (This is a problem even with PDF files (there are Pantone colours that look very different from what's intended when viewed on a PC without Adobe software installed, for example) and I can't see how you can solve this problem on the web.) 2. What will happen when the page is viewed using browsers that do not support the vendor extension? For example, will all Pantone (i.e., unknown/unsupported) colours end up appearing as black? If not black will the colours actually match? -- Ambrose Li // http://o.gniw.ca / http://gniw.ca If you saw this on CE-L: You do not need my permission to quote me, only proper attribution. Always cite your sources, even if you have to anonymize and/or cite it as "personal communication".
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