a file full of colour.

Rivet_x11colors.zip

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

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

This is a great thead - thanks guys!!

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

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

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!!

Hi Michael,

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

Ann

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 Besides, the concept of safe colors is rather outdated now.

Webdings.

Thanks Comment, I have updated my file.

thanks

Ann

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

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

I never claimed these were x11 colors

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

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.

Pling.fp7

some royalty arrangement, might be in order!

--sd