Guenther Noack wrote:
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 01:36:27PM +0800, Sheldon Gill wrote:
Well, CIE would be good...
commercially I'd say PANTONE...
In the end, though, you are working in RGB so defining an RGB color space
should suffice.
I'm just curious. What advantages do we have from that? Do the icons look better
then when you print them out on a professional printer?
Actually, I'm thinking that the colour palette extends beyond simply icons to
the desktop as a whole. So there'll be some printing done.
The real issue is what its supposed to look like on the screen. I can give you
an colour value as an RGB triple but when you use that on your computer the
screen can give you quite a different colour display.
The image you give (from Adobe ImageReady) has gamma but no ICC profile. I
assume its supposed to be sRGB but there is nothing to say that. There's
nothing to say your monitor is calibrated accordingly either so its pure
conjecture as to whether the gamma is valid.
On a separate issue, I think you should carefully choose the exact colours
so that they display well using at least 5-bit color or a 256 color indexed
palatte. These better suit smaller devices.
I'm not an expert on that topic, but I haven't seen a device with just
256 colors in a very long time. I wonder if it really makes sense to
optimize for this.
I wasn't suggesting optimise, rather not neglect. 256 colours are rare these
days but 16-bit certainly isn't.
Regards,
Sheldon
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