"Mark K. Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I like these color names better than the previously defined > ones, but if we're going to change the names of the colors, > let's use the canonical names, perhaps adopting the color > names in /etc/X11/rgb.txt file. We may also have to > retranslate the color names. For the record: I'm violently against using X11 colour names! I'm citing Steven Pemberton and his comments on using these names in CSS (Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): The X11 colour names are an abomination that should have been stifled at birth, and adding them to CSS is a blemish on the otherwise excellent design of CSS. To say that the X11 colour set and their names have been 'designed' is an insult to the word "design". It is just a mess. Let me just describe some of the problems: * The set of colours described is very non-uniform. Look at http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/css/x11huegraph.html as an example to see how the hues are distributed: a vast over-representation of reds just to start off with. * The names are just randomly put together. Some colours have a dark version (like red and darkred) but not all; 17 colours have 'dark' versions, but only 13 have 'light' versions. There's a mediumblue, but not mediumred; there are 15 varieties of 'blue' but only 6 of 'red'; there are cultural references built in ('dodgerblue'???). So I can neither construct the colour I want, nor know what a colour name refers to (gainsboro? papayawhip?) * On top of that, the naming scheme is inconsistent: darkgray is lighter than gray! lightpink is darker than pink! (OK, I'll stop using exclamation marks now) It is gray and darkgray, but lightgrEy brown is not very brown; actually a dark red What do you expect the difference is between seagreen and mediumseagreen is? (seagreen is darker) What do you expect the difference is between aquamarine and mediumaquamarine (aquamarine is lighter) There's a mediumvioletred and palevioletred, but no violetred There's lightgoldenrodyellow but no goldenrodyellow, just goldenrod There's darkolivegreen but no olivegreen, just olive There's palevioletred but no violetred. Well, I could go on, but I'll stop here. You get the picture. -- «Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a sick mind.» (Terry Pratchett) Gud bevare okken. _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
