- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 08:54:44 -0700
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de> wrote: > Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>: >> >> We also have a syntax for colorspaces that define named colors instead >> of exposing numeric channels: `color(pantone "101 C")` is how we would >> write your example color, assuming we had a Pantone colorspace >> builtin. >> >> We'd love to work with you to get a royalty-free reference for the >> Pantone color system, suitable for wide implementation in browsers, to >> aid in printing and color management for companies using the Pantone >> standards. If you can help with that, great! The "royalty-free" part >> has been what's blocked us in the past, or else we would have already >> added it, given the evident demand. The W3C has strict requirements >> on what kinds of things it allows to be standardized. > > Just for the record, other proprietary or industry-standard color naming systems besides Pantone/PMS that have been proposed (more or less seriously) in the past (some as early as 1997) include: > > * HKS (spot, tone) <http://www.hks-farben.de/en_us/> > * RAL <http://www.ral-farben.de/content/footer-navigation/footer-anwendungen-hilfe/application-help/ral-colour-names.html> > * CI <http://colour-index.com/technical-info> > * Crayola <http://www.crayola.com/explore-colors.aspx> > * NCS (Natural Color System) > * ISCC–NBS > * CcMmYK > * RYB (red, yellow, blue), subtractive > * TSL (tint, saturation, luminance) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSL_color_space> > * … No one's asked for those in years (and several of them were last proposed when we were trying to decide on a named color system, so their usefulness is much lesser now). I've heard requests for Pantone during my tenure here, tho. ~TJ
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