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Re: Color chart
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lugnet.faq
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Mon, 29 May 2000 19:22:34 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> I have a finished rough draft of an element color chart:
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> http://www.baseplate.com/colors/
I like it a lot! It'll definitely come in handy.
> Rather than render each swatch as an image, I used HTML's table background
> specs
> for the colors. So, 8-bit displays are probably inadequate for viewing.
How did you determine what colors to use? I'm asking because the light colors
don't come up too well on my computer (true color settings). For example,
purple (what I'd call dk. pink, but ne'er mind) shows up pretty close to the
real thing, but purple+1 (the paradisa pink) shows up much lighter than the
real brick I have in front of me. And most of the light colors all look the
same here.
-Shiri
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| (...) just to keep in mind: lightness will vary depending upon your computer's gamma setting. That is to say, if you're running a Mac with default settings, some colors will look lighter than on my computer or an average PC running Windows. You've (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.faq)
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