On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 12:34 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 9/29/07, Jon A. Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To my mind, swatch means something like those books of Pantone > swatches. Flat blocks of colour (including special colours like gold, > and perhaps different finishes too) which you can use for colour > selection across different applications and media with some confidence > that the final result really will look like that. > > Though perhaps I'm too bound by my (limited) experience with print. Go to your nearest fine art supply shop and look at a Winsor & Newton swatch book, e.g. the one for their artist watercolour range. You'll see that there are rectangles for each colour, starting with the pure colour at the top and getting weaker towards the bottom as the colour is mixed. Or write to a paper manufacturer and they can send you a swatch book of paper samples. So I think gradients and textures to be plausible things to consider. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
