On Thu, Januar 13, 2005 4:10 am, Albert Cahalan sa:

> Possibly good changes:
>
> 1. lavendar (not "violet", which you can't get) instead of magenta
>    (though losing magenta is painful)

Well, violet has several meanings in English. See f.i.:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=violet

One of the definitions is:

  any of a group of colors, reddish-blue in hue,
  that may vary in lightness and saturation.

Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(color)

Lavender is usually paler (and lighter). But I guess it's a *good enough*
approximation, and I have changed the name to 'Lavender'.

(It's not that colour names are consistenly used, anyway!)

> 5. a darker red, more like the stop signs

I didn't change the red. But we could add an extra, dark red (if we remove
the 'Colours' label).

> Not good:
>
> 1. washed out yellow
>
> 2. non-pumpkin orange

I've reverted these.

> 3. baby blue in place of sky blue

I really think this blue is much more usuable than the old one, especially
for drawing cartoon skys.

> 4. washed out dark blue

I've made it darker. Better? The old one was *too* dark to be usuable.

> It might be wise to investigate normal color printer gamuts.
> For a typical printer, the RGB secondaries (cyan,magenta,yellow)
> should be no problem. The RGB primaries (red,green,blue) may
> cause trouble, especially red. I wouldn't want red to be any
> more grey, but making it darker might be OK. See the stop signs.

The red is as red it can be (RGB: 255, 0, 0) and prints wonderfully even
on older colour printers. Colour printers won't be a problem when choosing
colours.

> I could also go for a --manycolors option that gives a double
> row of colors. This would allow for 4 normal greens plus olive,
> more sky colors (normal, cheery, Arizona, gloomy), ocean color,
> medium semi-gray blue, both magenta and lavender, a few more greys,
> and a few more flesh tones.

Sounds nice, but where would you put it? I really don't think the colour
pickers should be made any smaller? But we could always add an extra row
in higher resolutions.

One more thing: The 'beige' is not really beige; it's not even close.
Suggestions on what we could call it?

-- 
Regards,
Karl Ove Hufthammer
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