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--- Comment #15 from Christoph Schäfer <christoph-schaefer@gmx.de> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
Spent some time in Scribus 1.5.2 and downloaded and installed the OCSC CIE
HLC palette (via Windows -> Resources -> Palettes category). Not so sure
this should be a palette to adopt as a replacement LibreOffice standard.soc
in whole. 

Yes it has application for reproducible color management for desktop
publishing support, but the HLC colors are rather muted--and the palette
lacks handling  of the primary colors. Folks will find it too muted and not
the best sRGB color space coverage.

Still it would be a useful palette to bundle, and perhaps provide some
mechanism for import of the OCSC libary of palettes to LibreOffice.

Some technical issues on using the CIE HLC in LibreOffice.

As noted, would need to resolve how to label each color swatch to show in
its tool-tip popup. Any freieFarbe / freeColour naming in Deutsch would have
to be translated--or maybe better drop any color names and depend on the
swatch viewer alone (similar is done now for a few of the palettes--where
for some reason naming for cmyk uses CMY, and gallery uses CMYK) -- but
which sRGB (decimal or HEX) or CMYK (decimal)?

And, if moving forward with an HLC based model, it is appropriate/necessary
to rethink grid layout for the swatch display. 

Currently we use 12 columns--chosen to hold black, white and our 10
increments of gray1 - gray10. Something like the HLC tables organized by Hue
000 -> 360 into 36 tables, would need to go into a 9 column layout, with
divider between the Hues--and the table would need to describe swatch blanks
for colors outside the sRGB color space.

Download Owen G.'s tonal_row.soc (attachment 105128 [details] from bug
80196) to $ORIGIN/share/palette and you can see challenge of the swatch view
being fixed number of columns.

Also, since each swatch from a palette will be shown on opening the color
picker, the color picker widget currently has no support for an HLC CIE LAB
color reference. Rather, like Scribus, we provide only an HSV (i.e. our HSB
panel) based color cylinder representation drawn from sRGB values in the
.soc palette. Can conversions showing HLC field be added? 


=-ref-=
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_color_space

http://cscheid.github.io/lux/demos/hcl/hcl.html

The HLC colours are "muted" for a reason: They can be replicated in CMYK, so if
you are working in a cross-media workflow (web and print) and need a maximum of
colour correctnes without resorting to spot colours, this is what you want.

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