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I need a "real" diverse palette of colors. Currently I have a palette of about 2000 colors, I put together years ago, but do not have "good" RGB colors for different brown, copper, silver, and gold, styles of colors. The ones I have are not that good. Finding good metallic colors are always - for me - a pain for both LibreOffice and GIMP. I know the .soc "standard" for LO, but not what GIMP uses.

Is there any good sources for these needed RGB defined colors?

The "376 palettes available" seems like a lot of palettes to go through and decide which one[s] are to be used. Any way to see the different palettes in an image like shown when you choose the color in LO's dialogs? That would be helpful. I use to have a .html file for a lot of RGB color codes and what they look like with various background colors. That helped me decide text and other colors for web pages. It would be nice to be able to look at an image, or sheet, and see what the RGB defined color[s] really look like. Of course, we have to make "allowances" for the printers printing them out in a darker shade, across all 4 of my [working] inkjet printers.



On 01/02/2017 03:24 AM, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
Hi Heiko,

I'm not sure if I can handle this. It's probably easy to create an extension that just copies 376 
colour palettes into a subdirectory, but IMNSHO it would make sense to create something more 
versatile, e.g., an OCSC palette manager that enables users to select the installation or 
de-installation of (in the alternative: activation or de-activation) of OCSC colour palettes.

Simply put, having additional 376 palettes available, most of which are special purpose ones, 
doesn't make much sense. Scribus uses a dedicated download service to let users choose what they 
need.

I certainly don't have the time to code this, but if anyone wants to get their hands dirty with 
trying, I'll be supportive.

Best,
Christoph



Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Dezember 2016 um 11:42 Uhr
Von: "Heiko Tietze" <tietze.heiko@googlemail.com>
An: "Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer@gmx.de>, "designglobal.libreoffice.org" 
<design@global.libreoffice.org>, libreoffice <libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org>
Betreff: Re: [libreoffice-design] Open Colour Systems Collection 2.0 released

Hi Christoph,

many thanks for sharing your work. In case of LibreOffice it would be great to have these palettes 
as extensions. Just ask if you need help to pack the soc files into oxt. But maintaining it on the 
extensions site is up to you (or any other volunteer).

Cheers,
Heiko

On 12/23/2016 08:01 AM, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
Open Colour Systems 2.0 Released
================================

freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour is pleased to announce the release of Open Colour Systems Collection 
(OCSC) 2.0.

Following the release of OCSC 1.0, freieFarbe / freeColour has been been recognised by German 
authorities as a non-profit organisation. The release of OCSC is the first one after the official 
recognition.

OCSC 2.0 comprises ten additional colour palettes. More importantly, it is now also available in 
Adobe's Swatch Exchange Format (ASE), as well as a Plain Text Format version with the file 
extension CLF.

All colours have been measured from vendor-supplied colour references with a spectrophotometer.

Since freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour is an advocate of the use of the CIE LAB/HLC colour model as a 
free and reasonable alternative to proprietary colour collections, colour values in the palette 
files are in CIE LAB.

Download
========

SBZ: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_SBZ.zip
SHA1 checksum: 6b2bab7dde9e5fe9e8778ee9f79f31edcaa8cef8

ASE: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_ASE.zip
SHA1 checksum: fea350149e2b95af55f36e283fe597f279d3f79c

CLF: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_CLF.zip
SHA1 checksum: e65fd94db7f0d6484df9ce0cf0288ecd328ec655


In addition, OCSC 2.0 has been released in three RGB versions for use in LibreGraphics programmes 
that don't support the LAB colour model and/or one of the formats listed above (yet). The formats 
are: GPL (GIMP, Inkscape, Calligra Office, Krita, MyPaint), SOC (Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, 
OpenOffice.org), and XML (Scribus 1.4.x).

Download
========

GPL: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_GPL.zip
SHA1 checksum: c0eefb3a74f658c9c201d5671b4af6a085650cbb

SOC: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_SOC.zip
SHA1 checksum: 318d8fbaf391b0ec39fa433e807e3ec658381376

XML: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_ScrXML.zip
SHA1 checksum: da456792dc89445022ab4ae1af3f5ccedc722cd6


A complete package with all supported formats is available here: 
http://dtpstudio.de/downloads/freeware/OCSC_20.zip
SHA1 checksum: e65fd94db7f0d6484df9ce0cf0288ecd328ec655


In addition, freieFarbe / freeColour provides other colour-related software for free here: 
http://freecolour.org/



Colour Software Release Planned
===============================

freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour also intends to release a previously closed-source colour software 
product written in RealBasic as Open Source under a GPL 2+ licence. fF / fC hopes to find 
contributors who are interested in porting the code from RealBasic to C++ and Qt, as well as 
merging the features of Swatchbooker and the original product. The majority of the code is 
UI-related, but the essential algorithms (the core of the product) are well-commented. Any 
assistance with respect to the organisation of the release of the source code would be welcome.



About freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour:
===================================


freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour is a non-profit organisation that was founded in 2016 by German and Swiss colour 
professionals after having worked as an informal initiative without legal status for several years. our motto 
is "We want to unchain colours". The organisation is looking for cooperation with colour experts, 
software developers and users around the globe who share our goals. You are invited to become a member and/or 
contribute your own project.

freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour is convinced that the design world will benefit from truly free 
colours and better colour software.



December 2016

Holger Everding
Christoph Schäfer

www.freiefarbe.de
www.freecolour.org

--
Dr. Heiko Tietze
UX Designer
Tel. +49 (0)179/1268509


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