"David A. Mann" wrote: > > Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > > Is there a key anywhere that one can use to define certian colors that we know > > will read as pretty close to that color across a maximum range of platforms? > David replied: > All you can do is either specify the RGB value or the colour name. > The HTML standard defines 16 names to define colours (17 if you count the > fact that "grey" is accepted as an alternative to "gray"). Many browsers > support more colour names. Specifically the names defined for the unix X > Window System tend to be supported, and possibly many more.
I've actually guessed at some of these 16 and even some of the extended ones for my text in some of my ebay listings. I had gotten a chart a couple of years ago but between printing it out (boy did I find out how useless that was) in a chart to show me the colors, their names and numbers, but it was an extended list and when I tried to use the numbers to get a color I wanted the names made no sense in some cases. But that was a while ago. > > If you want to know the "standard" names I can list them together with their > equivalent RGB values. I will not list the "extended" ones as there are too > many, and you're not guaranteed support for them :) > > Cheers, > > - Dave If I had my wish I'd want a chart that simply gave me those 16 and the name or code to make each one darker or lighter. that would be 48 and not give very subtle colors. I know that "darkblue" works, and that "purple" is darker than "violet". although it is rather fun guessing, I dont always want to fiddle. Thanks for the nice straightforward explaination. annsan > > David A. Mann, B.E. (Elec) > > "Why is it that if an adult behaves like a child they lock him up, > while children are allowed to run free on the streets?" -- Garfield > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
