h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Colour Names - A753013
Author: Alji, Wizard of the Red Dragon (Swynwr y Ddraig Goch) {Join The Guild of Wizards @ U197895 } - U172782

Handy for GuideML too.

I hadn't realised there were this many named colour definitions.

Although alphabetical is an obvious order to put the colours in, you have to know the name given before you can find it in the list.

Could you re-arrange the names into the kind of linear order you get with sets of coloured pencils?

This would mean that when you are looking for a 'kind of beige' you see the 'blanched almond' and 'bisque' etc. close by on purpose rather than coincidentally because they all begin with B. Also 'palegoldenrod' and 'wheat' would be found.

Tweety Pie

I agree - invaluable, and I never knew there were so many, but it would be a lot more useful if arranged in colour order across the spectrum rather than alphabetical order.

Being picky just for a moment. I have to say that I found the shading on the borders of each box something of a distraction, particularly in Goo. Also the table headers don't show up well in Alabaster and Brunel, personally I think they would look better without any background colour.

Apart from that, it is a damn fine entry and I've added it to my personal favourites list for future reference

You have left out the < and > 's around the FONT tags, i guess because you didn't want them being parsed. You should use &lt;FONT&gt; that will display as but not parse.

Tango

Fine work - I shall experiment.

Great stuff

I am curious about the colour names that are not part of the official HTML 4.0 standard. I wonder where did these names originate, and do they work across all the most common broswers? Also from a web design perspective, it would be nice to have some indication on how 'web safe' the colours are.

Web Safe Colours (edited) - A315901

Tango

Does that mean that this one won't sit alongside it>

I was confused by the header '#rrggbb '. Means nothing to me and isn't explained.

#rrggbb is the convention for writting colours in number form. the "#" means it's in hexadecimal (base 16), rr means the 2 digits for how much red to include (from 00 to FF), g=green and b=blue in the same way.

I don't understand your first comment though. The 2 entries should be linked, but they can both exist.

Tango

Ah! An explanation of the header is needed, then.

While this is comprehensive from the point of view of demonstrating the colours, it is lacking in supporting content.

For example, under "Other Colour Names" you say "Later lots of additional colour names were added", but there's no discussion of what was before later. When was "later"?

Maybe a discussion of additive colour theory or when it is appropriate to use colour in webpages would be worthy of inclusion.

But as a straight list of colours, I don't think it's going to make it into the Edited Guide, even thought it's a very useful reference.


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Are you still working on this entry?

Hmmm... I'm starting to this this entry should perhaps be removed from PR. Neither the original author of the entry, nor the researcher who submitted it, have responded to any of the comments made.

It'll need a bit of work to become EG standard, but it's a good start.

What about a move to the FM, although both researchers haven't left the building, so that if someone was willing to do the work, they could?

RhoMuNuQ

As well as the Edited Guide article A315901 which Tango pointed out earlier, there's A529715 and A623242.

[s at Rho]

I'd move it back to entry, rather than FM. Neither the original author nor the researcher who recommended it to PR are subscribed to the PR forum, however both are still relatively active.

Back to entry it is. I'll post to the group once I'm back (Monday).

RhoMuNuQ

I put this up for review, nothing appeared to happen at the time, yet it clearly did. Plus I 'lost' this entery until now.

The thing that got my attention A753013 is an alphabetical list, a learning tool. Then again maybe I expect to learn the HTML colours but not everybody would.

Another way would be in hex value order, possible, but would anybody want RGB hex order - too messy maybe.

Colour order then shade for a look-up table is a good idea.

Have seen the phrase 'Web Safe' dotted about, simple enough, each RGB value needs to be one of:-

(Hex) 00 33 66 99 CC FF

(Decimal) 0 51 102 153 204 255

So a couple of colors from the Goo skin... #006699 and #000066 are web safe as you would expect.

Yet I can't find names for them on a list of Netscape colours.

A chart that just uses does not seen to me as clear as one that uses

To do a chart, then to make it Skin safe the whole entery would be in a - would that be a good idea?