krackedpress wrote > I did not go through all of the 2525 color lines, and many of those > lines were given to me, as is, like the Crayola colors. > > Some duplicates may be in color sequences, so they need to stay. Some > are not and can be removed. Some non-working colors will be fixed or > removed [as the case with the colors I was given]. Some of the colors > only have a hex code for their names, since those colors are a sequence > of color shading and did not have names assigned to them. I feel that > just calling them things like "red hue 15 shading 3" would not be any > good, since it would be a made up name. Yes, all of the names have been > made up, but I will not create names for these colors, like "rosemary > pink" or "coral sea foam green". How paint companies come up with these > color names is a mystery to me. > > Of course, some say there are too many colors to choose from. Some would > like more colors. I was thinking about looking into more colors and > their shading towards white. The red hues need to be found and the > shadings. Maybe some of the named colors could be placed in hue order > instead of alphabetical order.
There are several things that bother me about a single large Franken-palette of this nature. - Swatches are generally not in visual (gamut) order, which they need to be for ease-of-use. - They are rarely designed for the current 8-column (v3.x - v4.1) or upcoming 12-column (v4.2+) colour picker in LO. - Combining several palettes into a single file defeats the entire point of a palette, which is to /restrict/ the number of available swatches. - This particular example includes proprietary (Pantone) details, which is especially of concern. The matter of including Pantone palettes in other free / open products such as Scribus, GIMP, and Inkscape, is a long running and ultimately pointless initiative. In honesty, we as a community should be aiming to create our own libre palettes, with an arrangement of hues and tones that are suitable for the colour picker. There are a few attempts by others available on the net, but I will see what I can come up with. The problem of naming hues and tones is always a serious challenge. I tend to prefer CMYK, RGB, HSL, or similar types of codes over generic names, such as "Antique White 1", although I can understand the desire for this type of subjective naming. Kind regards, Owen. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/having-2525-defined-colors-to-choose-from-within-LO-tp4092930p4093585.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
