On May 3, 2006, at 8:44 PM, Erik Halbert wrote:
What is the rationale for the colour swatches? They appear roughly to follow the red/orange/yellow/green/blue/indigo/violet scheme. However, I'd like to know where the names etc come from.
The grey shades do not seem to follow the normal 10% values. I would expect nine shades between black and white rather than seven as shown. And personally I find 20% black to be more meaningful than "gainsboro" (if that is 20% black).
If someone can point me to notes I would be grateful.
I am using the win version.
It depends on which swatches you're talking about. There are a few different sets.
Basically we just load up whatever 'standard' palette files are around and list them. They are plain text files with [r g b name] on each line. It's the basic format that The GIMP uses.
Historically, some come from X11 color naming.
Now, if you're specifically looking at the "SVG" set, that comes straight from the SVG 1.1 standard