Web Colours

[rivet]

a file full of colour.

Rivet_x11colors.zip

[comment]

It's a very nice file, but these are not web or HTML color names. Officially, HTML recognizes only 16 named colors:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.5

though most browsers support more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

If you use CSS, the list includes all color keyword names as defined in the SVG standard:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/types.html#ColorKeywords

[comment]

Here's a bare-bones file with CSS/SVG named colors. As you can see, everything can be calculated from the RGB values - including the swatch.

x11colors.fp7.zip

[LaRetta]

This is a great thead - thanks guys!!

Can you explain the purpose of the cSafe calculation, Michael?

[comment]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors

[LaRetta]

Thank you! It seems that the *really safe* web colors are much too bright for any design that I will ever create. I, as a User, couldn't imagine staring at any of those underlined shades for very long; I'd need sunglasses.

I've been meaning to put together a file such as these for quite some time and you've saved me from the work of it. Much appreciated!!

[librone]

Hi Michael,

what kind of font/type you used for "cSwatch" field?

Ann

[comment]

There are more safe colors than the file has - you only see which of the *named* colors are safe. Besides, the concept of safe colors is rather outdated now.

[comment]

Webdings.

[rivet]

Thanks Comment, I have updated my file.

[librone]

thanks

Ann

[Raybaudi]

It seems that these colors:

lightgray, darkgrey, grey, lightslategrey, slategrey, dimgrey, darkslategrey are used only by Netscape.

Maroon isn't x11, neither Gray nor Green nor Purple: their hex are from HTML and CSS

BTW: the attached file uses the WV to display colors by their name.

x11colorsOnWV.zip

[comment]

I never claimed these were x11 colors - I said they were CSS/SVG:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#svg-color

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/types.html#ColorKeywords

[Raybaudi]

I never claimed these were x11 colors

You didn't say but the name of your file says.

[comment]

So change it to Pling.fp7 or whatever...

The table below provides a list of the X11 colors [X11COLORS] supported by popular browsers with the addition of gray/grey variants from SVG 1.0. The resulting list is precisely the same as the SVG 1.0 color keyword names. This specification extends their definition beyond SVG.

[Søren Dyhr]

Pling.fp7

some royalty arrangement, might be in order!

--sd