On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Ken Dickey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I don't know if anyone is interested, but PharoInbox now contains a change
> set, Graphics-KenDickey.131,  which adds Color names based on NBS-ISCC
> Color
> Centroids as described in:
>
>  http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/Dictionaries
>
> After the change set has been filed in, one should invoke "Color
> initializeNames" in a workspace.  "Color explore" and look at the pool
> dictionary for swatches and details.
>
> This set of Color names has the properties:
>
> * explicit and non-restrictive copyright and license (below)
> * no name conflicts between colors
> * color names are specific to surface colors or lighting
> * colors are distributed to equalize perceptual distances between them
> and
> * colors are derived from matching physical samples
>
>
Can we handle "white" being F2 F3 F4 rather than FF FF FF? This is like this
because of some reason to do with printer gamuts.

Otherwise - good find! I'll be keeping the reference.

Gulik.

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