On Wed, 10 May 2000, Annelise Anderson wrote:
> I'm trying to get more contrast in a style with solid colors
> (I started with steelblue) and I'd like to know where I can find out
> the meanings of things like rgb:5/78/a and rgb:4/6/8. I can get
> something from just experimenting but a reference would be good.
> I want some screen shots (not in color) that print well.
You may also want to read the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt (or maybe located
somewhere else).
The values can be converted to hex with perl.
perl -e 'while (<>) { if (/^(\d+)\s(\d+)\s(\d+)\s(.+)$/) { printf
("%X\t%X\t%X\t%s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4); } }' < /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt |
less
For example:
F5 FF FA MintCream
E9 96 7A DarkSalmon
Then to see the colors you can use various X applications like:
xterm -bg rgb:f5/ff/fa & # will be in MintCream
xterm -bg rgb:e9/96/7a & # is in DarkSalmon
Or you can use the xcolorsel tool to browse these colors.
Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net
http://bsd.reedmedia.net
