There is an option to include "user defined" colors. I know this, since I had to do it for the text color of the "official" brochure we were working on many months ago.
Tools / Options / LibreOffice / Colors There are options for Add, Modify, Edit, and Delete colors in the color "table". So you can always add a new color to the list, and name it whatever you wish it to be. Yes, there are a low number of predefined colors, but I bet if someone would give a list of names and Hex codes for all of these "non-listed colors" then maybe they could be added to our font color selection. I assume you want colors like this: ORANGE 1 #FFA500 ORANGE 2 #EE9A00 ORANGE 3 CD8500 ORANGE 4 #8B5A00 ORANGE RED 1 #FF4500 ORANGE RED 2 #EE4000 ORANGE RED 3 #CD3700 ORANGE RED 4 #8B2500 ORCHID #DA70D6 ORCHID 1 #FF83FA ORCHID 2 #EE7AE9 ORCHID 3 #CD69C9 ORCHID 4 #8B4789 .... PAPAYA WHIP #FFEFD5 PEACHPUFF 1 #FFDAB9 PEACHPUFF 2 #EECBAD PEACHPUFF 3 #CDAF95 PEACHPUFF 4 #8B7765 PINK #FFC0CB PINK 1 #FFB5C5 PINK 2 #EEA9B8 PINK 3 #CD919E PINK 4 #8B636C PLUM #DDA0DD PLUM 1 #FFBBFF PLUM 2 #EEAEEE PLUM 3 #CD96CD PLUM 4 #8B668B POWDER BLUE #B0E0E6 This is a 5 page list of names and colors - with 100 different Gray levels. http://libreoffice-na.us/colors-and-hex.pdf On 11/04/2013 03:47 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: > You know, this has been bothering me for a while, but I've never brought it > up: > Why are our color options (for font color, highlight, table > background, etc.) so limited? > > I confess, I know diddley about C++, but how hard would it be to get a > color wheel, > or some other means of choosing colors, say like available in Tk > (tkinter, tcl/tk, etc. > like shown here: http://zetcode.com/gui/tkinter/dialogs/ You can even > enter a hexcode.) > that would give us broader options? > > Should I make a feature request? > Has nobody else never thought of this? > Or am I missing something, and we have broader options than I think > (we have 112 colors to choose from for fonts, 6 of which are white). > Maybe a plugin using tcl/tk or python/tkinter wouldn't be too hard to make? > (I've played with tcl/tk and python/tkinter, but never trying to make > something > to work with a larger project as a plugin, so not sure how that works). > > I love my LO (and OOo before it), but this has long occured to me as a > glaring oversight, or something. > Frankly, having not used any proprietary office suite for more than 5 > minutes in the past decade, > I don't know what options they have for such features, but it seems to me that > it would be better to have more flexibility in this regard, and it > shouldn't be overly complex > to implement (unless I'm sorely mistaken). > > Tony -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
