[libreoffice-users] Re: having 2525 defined colors to choose from within LO

krackedpress wrote
> I did not go through all of the 2525 color lines, and many of those 
> lines were given to me, as is, like the Crayola colors.
>
> Some duplicates may be in color sequences, so they need to stay.  Some 
> are not and can be removed.  Some non-working colors will be fixed or 
> removed [as the case with the colors I was given].  Some of the colors 
> only have a hex code for their names, since those colors are a sequence 
> of color shading and did not have names assigned to them.  I feel that 
> just calling them things like "red hue 15 shading 3" would not be any 
> good, since it would be a made up name.  Yes, all of the names have been 
> made up, but I will not create names for these colors, like "rosemary 
> pink" or "coral sea foam green".  How paint companies come up with these 
> color names is a mystery to me.
>
> Of course, some say there are too many colors to choose from. Some would 
> like more colors.  I was thinking about looking into more colors and 
> their shading towards white.  The red hues need to be found and the 
> shadings.  Maybe some of the named colors could be placed in hue order 
> instead of alphabetical order.

There are several things that bother me about a single large Franken-palette
of this nature. 

- Swatches are generally not in visual (gamut) order, which they need to be
for ease-of-use.
- They are rarely designed for the current 8-column (v3.x - v4.1) or
upcoming 12-column (v4.2+) colour picker in LO.
- Combining several palettes into a single file defeats the entire point of
a palette, which is to /restrict/ the number of available swatches.
- This particular example includes proprietary (Pantone) details, which is
especially of concern. The matter of including Pantone palettes in other
free / open products such as Scribus, GIMP, and Inkscape, is a long running
and ultimately pointless initiative.

In honesty, we as a community should be aiming to create our own libre
palettes, with an arrangement of hues and tones that are suitable for the
colour picker. There are a few attempts by others available on the net, but
I will see what I can come up with. The problem of naming hues and tones is
always a serious challenge. I tend to prefer CMYK, RGB, HSL, or similar
types of codes over generic names, such as "Antique White 1", although I can
understand the desire for this type of subjective naming.
Kind regards, Owen.



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