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The definition of grey is totally debatable, but in W3C spec Green = #008000 (instead of #00FF00, which is called Lime?) makes no sense. How did it happen?
I never use color names (except if I quick want to set a color in CSS for testing purposes) so I wonder who is using color names and why? Does all this has any real world implications?
As touched on in the article, the beauty of colour names would be that they’re celebrated for the machine. #124356 might look different on one monitor or workstation compared to another. Having colour names which are calibrated for the device makes a lot of sense. Assuming those colour names are actually calibrated, which as the article also mentions, so often wasn’t the case. As an aside, this is a big problem in DT…
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My guess? Most green things you see are a darker green. The extremely bright green (lime according to the W3C) is less useful, so they probably chose the color based on what they thought the user would expect. Given that RGB is well-known, I suspect their assumption was wrong, but I have nothing to back that up.
Also, green is the brightest primary after accounting for typical human vision and typical monitors. The YUV formulas put at nearly twice as bright as red. So a normal display has more green than you'd need, and 00ff00 green has terrible contrast against ffffff white
I never use color names (except if I quick want to set a color in CSS for testing purposes) so I wonder who is using color names and why? Does all this has any real world implications?
I never use color names (except if I quick want to set a color in CSS for testing purposes) so I wonder who is using color names and why? Does all this has any real world implications?
I used to use them in both X11 and CSS way back in the day. They were really common in X11, because a lot of users were on pseudocolor displays and it made sense to reuse colors as much as possible. If you used uncommon colors in your program on - for example - a Sparcstation 20, the palette would shift every time you moved the mouse in or out of your window. It's difficult to describe to someone that's never seen it…
The definition of grey is totally debatable, but in W3C spec Green = #008000 (instead of #00FF00, which is called Lime?) makes no sense. How did it happen?
Not that it's very consistent. The color called "red" is #ff0000, which looks brighter than both #008800 and #0000ff IMO. And arguably, "blue" shouldn't be #0000ff, since that's just not a very pleasent color. I think I might've been tempted to go with something like, red = #cc0000, green = #008800, blue = #0055ff. Or maybe go all the way and specify the colors in some perceptual color space rather than using RGB. But oh well.
(The color #0000ff for "blue" is super over used IMO. Most terminal emulators default to it as well and it just makes blue text hard to read in most out-of-the-box configurations. To get a nice blue color, you need some green in there.)
The definition of grey is totally debatable, but in W3C spec Green = #008000 (instead of #00FF00, which is called Lime?) makes no sense. How did it happen?
I never use color names (except if I quick want to set a color in CSS for testing purposes) so I wonder who is using color names and why? Does all this has any real world implications?