Talk:Web colors

Decimal RGB definition

In CSS, colours can also be defined as rgb(decimal,decimal,decimal). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.131.234.43 (talk) 12:49, 25 September 2005‎ (UTC)

Burlywood or BurlyWood?

I like the design of the colour table grouping them by (is it) hue? I note that the obvious source material is SVG 1.1 Version of X11 Color names but that uses all lower case names whereas this table uses "upper camel case" however I think an error was made with Burlywood (and I subsequently noted Firebrick also) is one word. As this seems to be an included file and the page is also subject to some restrictions I'm not sure I can edit the table myself. SlySven (talk) 16:38, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

The current official standard is CSS Color Module Level 3 which was approved as a W3C Recommendation on 7 June 2011. In that, section 4.1. Basic color keywords lists sixteen colours in lowercase, and explicitly states "the color names are case-insensitive." It is unclear whether this case-insensitivity also applies to the colours named in section 4.3. Extended color keywords, which also has all of the colour names in lowercase. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:50, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

I noticed this and checked. "burlywood" and "firebrick" are single words in the X11 colour name database. They are not two word phrases, so using BurlyWood and FireBrick is not correct. The original X11 RGB database can be found in /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt on an Ubuntu Linux system. In that database, single word colour names (like "red" or "burlywood") are written in lower case. Two word colour names (like "sandy brown", "SandyBrown") are given two entries, one using lower case with a space, and one using CamelCase without a space. The X11_color_names article gets this correct, but the table in this Web colors article was incorrect. The table is now fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.183.136.7 (talk) 03:31, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Blue gray

In English, so I can understand , please how many parts by parts do I need to make the colors blue gray. I have no idea what you are talking about. You have lost my. So if I can understand please how to make the right information to make it . Thank you please !!! Corsairf4u1 (talk) 08:59, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

I build model aircraft and I've been told that colors are different blue gray is actually gray blue or gray blue is actually blue gray I've seen photos that goes both ways some are grayish blue and some are bluish Gray and I just want to figure out how can I make just blue gray because some companies don't have that color and they don't know how to mix it or even know how what and when so can you please just please tell me the ratio to get that color by parts from 0 to 10 so I would know thank you very much for listening to me and I thank you from Ralph Corsairf4u1 (talk) 09:01, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

@Corsairf4u1: This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Web colors. I rather think you would be better off posting a question at the reference desk. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:27, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Article Focus

I'm finding this page confusing and disorganized.

1. Explaining how hex colours works seems like it deserves its own, small page.
2. Many people want to quickly search for a named web colour they see online. This is frustrating right now because there are too many separate pages to search, and it isn't obvious on a quick scan of the intro paragraph. Further, some colours like "java" aren't included in the expanded list of colours.
3. The focus on HTML 4 seems very outdated and distracting.

zachaysan (parley) 16:32, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Missing Mention of VioletRed

Interestingly, VioletRed exists in the rgb.txt of both versions yet there is no mention as to why it's not included in the colour list or even omitted from CSS W3 specification? I can't seem to find an answer anywhere. Might be a good idea to add to this article. Grittenald (talk) 11:52, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Faults on the "SVG_Recognized_color_keyword_names.svg"

"Seashell" (#FFF5EE) presents the wrong hex value, rendering the same as seagreen #2e8b57.

Note: 9 colours are listed duplicated, differing only by the names (aqua/cyan, fuchsia/magenta; darkslategray/darkslategrey, dimgray/dimgrey, slategray/slategrey, lightslategray/lightslategrey, gray/grey, darkgray/darkgrey, lightgray/lightgrey). These should be named side/side, not as separate items. Paulo Muffato (talk) 22:14, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Every color you can make

So we all know the colors right? Well there’s actually a lot more. You see, this is focusing on RGB, not any other one so if we add 255 + 255 + 255 (or 255 * 3) plus the black color, we get 766 RGB colors possible to make, now this may not be true but it’s a lot at least