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>There has been some talk on the list for a standard list of colours with a
>name and associated rgb values. Has anyone ever put this beast together?
About 600 named colors, with swatches, RGB, and 24-bit hex equivalents,
appear at http://eies.njit.edu/~kevin/rgb.txt.html . The hex equivalents
should be the same as the MapInfo color numbers. This page is
self-described as "a composite of MIT's Xconsortium red/green/blue (RGB)
color specifications, Xconsortium version 10.41, 1994." A lot of other
web sites have ripped off this page.
A shorter list of named colors with RGB equivalents appears at
http://www.ncdesign.org/html/samp/s030list.htm. These are attributed to
CSS Level 1. The MapInfo equivalent of an (R, G, B) value is, apparently,
((R*256) + G)*256 + B. Roughly the same list, this time with hex
equivalents, appears at http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~cmays/colorguidex.html.
An amusing little app, "Whatcolor", provides RGB and text descriptions of
the pixel color beneath your cursor. It comprises the 16 VGA names, 40
names from Office 97, and the 140 X11 colors (see
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/color/x11makerIE.htm for the swatches and
hex values; these are the default colors for X Windows). Download this app
at http://www.hikarun.com/e/.
--Bill Huber
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