Talk:List of colors/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Archive 3

Archive 4

Archive 5

Split required

Looks like this article needs to be split again (maybe into A–F and G–Z). The template count is too high and it fails to process the navboxes in the shade section, not to mention taking forever to render and timing out on edits. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 09:17, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

By "this article", I meant the A–M article, and to split it into A–F and G–M (not G–Z). At the same time, I'd like to move the articles to use the correct (per MOS) endash character instead of a hyphen (and supply redirects from the hyphenated version). OK? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 23:57, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

I split the article into A-M and N-Z a few months ago because the article had gone up to over 120,000 kilobytes and download times were taking too long. Usually articles above 100,000 kilobytes are split. List of colors A-M is now at about 76,000 kilobytes. I was not thinking of splitting it again until it reached 100,000 kilobytes. Do you really think it needs to be split now? (You are right, the shade navboxes do not process and this needs to be fixed.) Keraunos (talk) 01:26, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Could you provide an example regarding what you mean by "using the correct endash character instead of a hyphen"? Keraunos (talk) 01:30, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Per MOS:ENDASH, ranges use an endash (e.g. A–F), not a hyphen (e.g. A-F). —[AlanM1(talk)]— 07:32, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

The list has now been split into three parts. The Colors by shade and Web colors sections appear in A–F and N–Z, but not G–M. I don’t think they need to repeated and I don’t think they should be included in these articles at all, but rather move to List of colors by shade or something like that. — Christoph Päper 09:52, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

{{Done}}. I've completed the split/move and all the redirects, as well as fixed the inbound links that made sense to fix (I hope). For now, I removed the sections other than the color table from the G–M and N–Z articles. I assumed that they were the same in the N–Z article as the A–F article, or that the latter would have been more up-to-date. Perhaps someone could diff them from the history. Also note the new TOC template that lists only the letters for the colors in that article. Please advise if I missed anything. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 10:09, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Archive

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This talk page is getting pretty long. I don't know when the limit is before archiving, but it looks long. BTW I don't know how to archive pages. Or if I have permission to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by69.136.72.16 (talk) 02:03, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

I'll archive it. Thanks for the heads up! Airplaneman ^talk 05:06, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Two entries for the same color

Aqua/Cyan

They have the same hex# and RSV values. Are they the same color? As such, should there be two entries for the same color? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.69.50.54 (talk) 22:15, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Arylide yellow/Hansa yellow

They have the same hex# and RSV values. Are they the supposed to be same color? —Precedingunsigned comment added by 66.69.50.54 (talk) 04:53, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Lavender blue/Periwinkle

They have the same hex# and RSV values. Are they the same color? As such, should there be two entries for the same color? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.208.140(talk) 20:43, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Han Blue/Han Purple

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They have the same hex# and RSV values. Are they the same color? As such, should there be two entries for the same color?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.69.50.54 (talk) 05:59, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia article on Han blue/Han purple says that Han blue is blue and Han purple is different.

GeeWillicker (talk) 16:49, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

They are now different. —Preceding unsigned comment added by66.69.50.54 (talk) 05:34, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Comment about colors with two entries

FYI

There are several colors on the list that are the same color entered under two different names. It is OK and normal to have the same color listed under two different names so as to make it easier for someone to find the color using the name that they know best. Also it is important for people to know that some colors have two different names. Keraunos (talk) 05:48, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Sorry but that's not completely true. Just because two colors can be represented by the same RGB value does not mean that the colors are identical. At most it says that the color names are the same for some standardized list. PaleAqua (talk) 07:24, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Consistent Representations (two colors for the same entry)

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As noted in Talk:List of colors/Archive 1#Sanity Check, many of the entries are not self-consistent. Sometimes the decimal and hex representations do not agree. More often the HSV and RGB do not agree. I have found many more since the earlier note, but I don't know which representation is correct for guiding a fix. Trying to trace a few colors back to the original pages often leads to further inconsistencies. Daggerbox (talk) 13:56, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Opposites?

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Colours here are technically on a colour wheel; why not give their named opposites? For example, what shade of yellow is opposite Egyptian Blue? 2010-02-21 T23:04 Z-8 76.90.226.198 (talk) 07:04, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

A few difficulties. (1) color names don't refer to precise colors, and are notoriously vague and ambiguous. (2) opposite has several possible definitions: there are “opposite” pigments which will mix to gray paint, “opposite” light sources which will mix to gray light, “opposite” colors with respect to human color vision. (3) Many colors in e.g. the sRGB gamut don’t have an “opposite” which is also within that gamut. Many colors’ “opposites” aren’t even within the gamut of realizable colors. For more technical detail on the subject,see this page, which explains it quite well, I think. –jacobolus(t) 12:53, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Hues

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These comments about hues are just my opinions and therefore I am leaving the actual changes up to someone else who has more input on this page.

Sorting Incorrectly

While I understand why the hues are listed in degrees, I think the degree sign should be left out in this case, if this column is to be a sortable column, or at least have someone at Wikipedia fix how degrees are sorted. It sorts degrees alphabetically, not numerically. In other words, it thinks 180º is less than 20º because it starts with a 1. Perhaps the degree sign could be shown in the header as hueº and only numbers listed in the columns. BucsWeb (talk) 16:15, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

See Help:Sorting. It’s easy to change the sort behavior for table columns, independently of what’s shown. –jacobolus(t) 04:59, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

This does not change the fact that it should be sorting numerically and not alphebetically. Though apparently it is now. Vooks(talk) 23:58, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Negative Numbers

Some of the hues are listed as negative numbers. There are no negative hues in the color wheel. If the hue is listed as -26º, as is the case of the color cotton candy, it should be 334º (26º less than 360º). The color wheel is a circle, 0º to 360º. BucsWeb (talk) 16:15, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

It doesn’t really make a difference, but if you want to add 360° to negative hues, go ahead. –jacobolus (t)04:59, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Thankfully, someone already did. I just thought there should be some consistency to it. When you already have hues listed with very high numbers, such as 345º, it makes no sense to have one listed as -26º when it should be 334º. Like I said, when you look at a color wheel, there are no negative numbers. BucsWeb (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

You can print a color wheel with negative numbers if you want. Several software applications, for example, set hue in HSL/HSV to range -180° – 180°. In any case, angular comparisons imply modular arithmetic, so it doesn’t really matter. That said, it’s good to have a consistent labeling in a big list. –jacobolus (t) 01:08, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

The templates now include negative degrees for hues in the title attribute. Just hover over the value. — Christoph Päper 12:43, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Editing color coordinates on certain colors on the list for registered guests only

Is there a way for only registered guests to edit the color coordinates in the very important colors on the list? (top-importance and high-importance) Like some articles have a lock symbol on it.71.22.122.12 (talk) 01:01, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

If there is a high volume of vandalism going on then you can request this article to be semi-protected. Hope that helps, --CrohnieGal^Talk 10:57, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

How do we even make sure the list is correct? For example the "Dark orange" color is actually brighter than "Orange" (color wheel). Normal orange is (255,127,0) I'm tempted to change "Dark orange" into something that really is and looks slightly darker than normal orange, for example (232,96,0). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joachim Michaelis (talk • contribs) 10:23, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

"Dark Orange" is one of those web colors that was misnamed. It should have been called "bright orange". But it has to be called "dark orange" because that is its name on the X11 color list. Keraunos (talk) 10:25, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

The list is clearly not “correct” by just about any standard; most of it is based on arbitrary internet sources with unclear methods and few explanations . Unfortunately, figuring out a reasonable policy for this page and others dealing with color, w/r/t sources, etc., would take some work, and no one has been especially interested in making detailed proposals and building consensus around them. It’s an organization problem.–jacobolus (t) 16:57, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism

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Reverted some vandalism. If this has happened before, and continues to happen, this page should be semi protected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.72.87 (talk) 23:36, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

FWIW, It doesn’t seem to me to be a serious problem. Any vandalism is pretty quickly spotted and reverted; a decent number of people are watching this page. –jacobolus (t) 01:45, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

I just did another round of vandalism reversion (back 8 steps). Took two hours thanks to my abysmal Internet connection but I finally got it done. —Glenn L (talk) 09:01, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

What is the intention of the article?

Stuck

I´m willing to contribute as I have a background which involves color management, but I need to know what the purpose is. Color names are made up codes for small talk. What could be achieved by listing every mentioned color name with an arbitrary HSV or RGB code? The only colors easily communicated by their made up name are Pantone colors, but these are not mentioned in the article. Is it targeted at web developers only as it´s limited to sRGB now?

Apart from the restriction to RGB values which is quite arbitrary the main question is what could be the purpose. An encyclopedia should not make up colors or descriptions and yet this seems to happen here. Is it meant for consumers? If so why not add color names of plants, animals and paint as they are commonly used in these areas. Dog breeders or hobby gardeners know reasonably what is meant by the name in their domain, but outside of that domain it´s meaningless.

So what it the intention. Be a comprehensive list of names used, then drop the sRGB restriction and make an entry for the domain in which a certain color is used. Or is it an attempt to provide web developers with common names? Max3d2 (talk) 23:56, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

It’s unclear to me and many people. Building a consensus around doing something about it though would take a fair amount of effort. I personally do not think this article is very useful or is ever likely to be, and you could certainly argue that it is out of scope for wikipedia. The reliance on (often unspecified) RGB, and general lack of sources, is, I agree, absurd. If you are interested in contributing, feel free to pick whatever articles are of personal interest, but in my opinion there are likely more urgent places where your skills could be used than this page. If you like, you can join Wikipedia:WikiProject Color (the project page is not especially helpful, but the talk page there is a good place to put proposals or discussions that might impact several articles, and in general color-related articles can be organized under the project’s aegis:top-importance articles, high importance,mid importance, unknown importance).–jacobolus (t) 01:17, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Well, I found it via PointlessSites, if it means anything. Phlum (talk) 16:04, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

I found this page looking for names of colours from their RGB codes. Like 1 in 12 of the european male population I'm colour blind. My better half wanted to know the colour of a car I saw online and I found it on this list. Nearly bought a salmon pink car. Pointless to the other 90% maybe. Perhaps some colour sighted hero could add a column of light/medium/dark plus the rainbow to simplify my consumer purchases. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.30.239.246 (talk) 10:44, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

color pigments

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Hi,

Yesterday, I had come here to post some sources and the colors derived from them (le Boite a Colours (a program) and pourpre.com), to the Wikipedia page for color lists. the color entries were deleted before I could post any sources. looking at the reason, I find (well, my Friend did this morning) that the person who removed it wants an article to link to the color (among other things).

now here is the problem: all I really have are the colors themselves, their names (kind of necessary), and a brief definition-in French. to what article would you have me link them to? none of them quite match any article on Wikipedia regarding color, and, not being a user and not knowing how to get an account, I cannot creat an article. I'm trying to upload these colors, and many more, so as to fill in informatino on historical colors and colors derived from pigments/dyes for clothing: Ventre de Biche and Aurore are both colors used to dye clothing in the 18th century (as well as flags). once I get these up, I plan on uploading Ponceau red, grass green (the dye color-darker than actual grass), Paille, and a few shades of yellow as well-many from the sources I listed above, if I can get the first two confirmed by the moderators/users. confirming the existance of these colors in a historical context, is these articles I stumbled on when doing the research needed: http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Du_Roi_Infanterie http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Cond%C3%A9_Infanterie

I would be appreciative of any help in improving the color list in regards to dyes/historical colors.

thanks in advance, I.Z.

PS: be careful when going to Poupre: yesterday, I got a message from my computer that it is not well protected/encrypted.

129.82.114.128 (talk) 19:34, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Foobar

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The color with hex code F00BA4 has been listed with name 'Foobar' on this page. This seems to be a silly joke, and not an accepted color name. Is this true, or is there some evidence that someone besides the editor uses this name? Also, it should be F00BA2, not F00BA4 :P68.0.215.125 (talk) 13:33, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps it's a joke implying that this article is FUBAR? It seems to have been added byCrissov. There’s no edit summary there.–jacobolus (t) 18:10, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

I must have been drunk or something when I added that color. Although, like other “l33t” hex values, it is a frequent example or test color, the name isn’t. I’m glad it’s been removed since.— Christoph Päper 11:41, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Foobar
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#F00BA4
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(240, 11, 164)
HSV (h, s, v)	(320°, 95%, 94%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(53, 120, 339°)
Source	[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Here is a color display for the joke color "Foobar". Keraunos (talk) 06:59, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Android Green, Badass

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Should Android green be added to the list? (Hex code #A4C639) It is featured on Android (operating system). — Precedingunsigned comment added by Phlum (talk • contribs) 16:08, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

66.69.51.142 (talk) 23:06, 1 April 2011 (UTC)It is now added to the list.

Should all companies list the colors of their various logos and trademarks on this page? I can't see a reason for advertising Android on a Wikipedia entry about color. I have never heard anyone refer to 'Android Green' in speech or seen it in writing, except in relation to Android Phones. As IBM famously uses blue on their main company logo, and has over many decades, should there be a separate listing for "IBM Blue" as it is certainly more notable than a little trademark a few years old.

Unless Wikipedia is to be taken over by product promotion, "Android Green" and other trademarks should not be on pages like this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by122.59.230.128 (talk) 02:56, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

there is a color that is not on here. i don't know what it is called, but the hex thingy is #BADA55. i saw it on a google video, on their develpoers channel. i think it is cool, although i do not like the shade of color. the guy from google says it is his favorite. also, android color should be on, it is cool!

unrelated, why dont you have like a simple chat-box-like thing? this editing the page to comment is weird. i am not very good at doing it, and dont know how. anyways, i would like to know what color that is, the bada55 one. also, maybe there are other colors like that, that have regular words? but, like, in l33t speak. i want to know other cool colors like that. if there are any.75.83.173.140 (talk) 06:04, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Badass
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#BADA55
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(186, 218, 85)
HSV (h, s, v)	(74°, 61%, 85%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(83, 79, 101°)
Source	[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Here is your color. It is of course not a real color, it is just a joke, so it doesn't belong on the list. Keraunos (talk) 06:26, 30 June 2011 (UTC) As you can see, it is a light tone of Android green. Keraunos (talk) 06:49, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

As you can see, there is another joke color displayed above on this page called "Foobar". Keraunos (talk) 07:16, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Considering splitting this article into two parts

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As we adding more colors to the color list, the length of the list gets longer and longer, and the load times will be getting longer, so we are thinking splitting this article into two parts, like List of colors (A-M) and List of colors (N-Z), what do you think?
71.22.122.12 (talk) 02:27, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree with that. That would make sense. That would be a logical course of action. Keraunos (talk) 07:26, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

However, it would be important to make sure that all the color navigation templates are on both pages. Keraunos (talk) 07:28, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

The Red Blue and Green for the Colors are Wrong

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Hi. I just want you all to know that the RBG colors for most of the colors are wrong. Most of them are should go 0-255, but someone made them 0-100. — Preceding unsigned comment added by96.249.247.208 (talk) 01:35, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Hover above the percentage values, there should be a popup showing the decimal 8bit value. They are both fine, as are hex triplets, which is also equivalent to the former two. —Christoph Päper 11:09, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Why is RGB in percent, rather than 255/255/255

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Why does the colort template present RGB values as percentages, rather than 255/255/255? Percentages have a couple of problems: they are non standard, and (more importantly) there is a round-off problem when the underlying 255 values are converted to 0->100 ... so two different colors in the table could end up with the same RGB values. --Noleander (talk) 08:05, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

The hex triplet is the 255/255/255 RGB value in hexadecimal. You just need a converter. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 18:57, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Also, the 8bit values are shown on hovering and are used to generate other values. Percentages are just more common to the general non-coder Wikipedia audience. — Christoph Päper 11:48, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Clarity about media, pigments, and so on

I find this article very ambitious and very useful, and I compliment everyone who has built it. I do have one concern, and want to raise it as a discussion, not start monkeying with the article. My concern is that it makes no mention of what color media have to do with the light that we see as "color". Many of the colors here seem to be defined as the light that emanates from a video screen. Great, especially as the swatches all have to be viewed that way. And I know that some of the swatches/colors are related to pigment colors, and are good approximations of them. No complaint there. But in terms of dyes and pigments, and paints, I would like to see some qualifications about how the light emanating from a video screen--or screens; as the article says, they won't all be the same--has a unique quality different from the light reflected from a pigment. It takes long enough to learn about color, light, and the physical properties that affect light and our perception of it. I just feel this article may tend to confuse people with a sense that color is some absolute, with the ultimate arbiter being the video screen. Any discussion? VanArtGuy (talk) 20:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Actually, most of the swatches are very poor approximations to pigment colors, done haphazardly with quite poor sources. The ones related to standards like the CSS color list have the advantage of at least being explicit and verifiable – unfortunately the name-to-color relationships in those lists are dramatically different than typical english definitions of the terms. Oh well. –jacobolus (t)07:34, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Good point ("poor approximations"), and I won't quarrel with it. I don't pretend to be an expert on color or on color reproduction, naming, etc. My concern is more that the list appears to present itself as authoritative, as if any student consulting the list is seeing the "absolute" colors. I realize now that what it needs is the color disclaimer (2nd principle from the Color Project): Use of color disclaimer. Wikipedia may include illustrations such as photographs of objects to illustrate the meaning of a color name; in all cases these shall be accompanied by a color disclaimer which emphasises that exact color reproduction cannot be guaranteed and that neither the monitor nor a printout should be used as a reference. A similar disclaimer shall be used in any illustration which shows a color or ranges of colors in such a way that they might be taken as being authoritative. This disclaimer may be a link to a disclaimer page or a disclaimer within the caption. It is very important, if Wikipedia is to have any claim to definitive information, that it is explained that the colors you see on your monitor or printout are not controlled and may not match the original intention.VanArtGuy (talk) 17:59, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

I've in the past made the same suggestion that the displayed colors have such a disclaimer, but unfortunately that would require those who want no color displayed (even if sourced) to compromise with those who want a color displayed even if there is no source. From my past experience on this project, Hell will probably freeze over first. That said, I will support you if you want to proceed. VMS Mosaic (talk) 02:58, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Table of contents

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Please weigh in [1] concerning the deletion of the current table of contents...Modernist (talk) 14:00, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 March 1#Template:ColorTOC has been relisted and now another template {{List TOC}} is being suggested. Thincat (talk) 15:45, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Example

{{List TOC |c1=White|c2=Pink|c3=Red|c4=Orange|c5=Brown|c6=Yellow|c7=Gray|c8=Green|c9=Cyan|c10=Blue|c11=Violet |d1=Web colors|d2=Fictional colors|d3=See also|d4=Footnotes|d5=References}}

Previous one

{{ColorTOC}}

How many colors have been named so far?

Stale

Seems a legitimate question. Google failed me. And it would be a nice addition to this article. I'm sure someone around here would know the answer.--ZaferXYZ (talk) 01:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Missing or wrong entries

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Missing Colors from Wikipedia?

The color celery is fairly popular and I can find it on Google Images. This should be an exhaustive list of colors.

It is impossible to have an exhaustive list of colours! 87.246.103.137 (talk) 10:28, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Magenta

Are magenta and fuchsia supposed to be the same color? On the table I see:
Fuchsia #FF00FF 96% 0% 63% 321° 100% 48% 100% 100% Fuchsia
Magenta #FF00FF 100% 0% 100% 300° 100% 50% 100% 100% Fuchsia

I thought #FF00FF corresponded to 100% red and 100% blue, but the fuchsia entry says 96%red and 63% blue, so I think the magenta entry is correct. I won't change it but whatever is going on here is wrong. 69.223.177.179 (talk) 23:42, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Meanwhile, this has been corrected, but the hues still differ (321° vs. 300°). — Christoph Päper 11:15, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Awesome

Is this a real color or a vandalism? Actually it is the name of a band, Awesome Color. And #FF2052 does not exist in other languages.Macaldo (talk) 15:55, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

petrol blue

Why no mention of petrol blue? --Espoo (talk) 05:05, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Mazarine Blue is missing

Mazarine blue came up in a crossword I was doing, but I couldn't find it on your list. However, I did find it athttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mazarine . Could it please be added to your list. ```` — Precedingunsigned comment added by Duffiana (talk•contribs) 22:24, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Sea Green

The link for Sea Green links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_blue#Sea_green, however that section no longer exists on that page anymore. Garquill (talk) 22:24, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. VMS Mosaic (talk) 02:50, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

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Bitter Lime

The hex code doesn't reflect the 0-100 numbers listed. Someone needs to fact check. Rhialto (talk) 20:01, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Color code for the color soap

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The code for the color soap is not correct

The color should be 194 188 225 for CEC8EF pn@paulnoll.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.232.226.122(talk) 11:34, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

The color soap has now been corrected. The correct hex code is CEC8EF. The correct rgb code is 206, 200, 239. Keraunos (talk) 07:10, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Alphabetical listing

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Is there a good reason to group the colors by first letter of their name? It limits the sorting options of the colors by restricting the sorting to only 1 letter. Vooks (talk) 00:00, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Currently, all colors are in one table. It might be beneficial for sorting purposes to merge List of colors: A-M and List of colors: N-Z, but since complex templates are involved performance is a strong counter argument. — Christoph Päper 11:12, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

All in one table?

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I don't know much about editing wikipedia, but I think it would be better to make all of the tables into one big one. If you want to sort all of the colors by their hue, you want to sort them all, not just the ones that start with a certain letter. If it's possible to make one big table, I think that would be an improvement. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.17.138.206 (talk) 21:16, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

The colors need to be sorted by letters of the alphabet in order to make it easier and quicker to find a particular color. Keraunos(talk) 04:14, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

He mean to remove the sub title (a,b,c,...) from the table but to keep the default sort by name. This way you would have a little more scroll to do to find your color name. But you could go backward and order by hue to find the name of the given hue and the given light much more easily. Which is as much interesting then to find a name imho. Iluvalar (talk) 04:43, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Just thought I'd add that I agree with the topic starter that one complete table would be better - there seems little point in having the option to sort the table if you can only sort colours that start with the same letter! Also, shouldn't all of the colours be in both the alphabetical list and the e.g. "shades of green" lists? 92.19.52.251 (talk) 00:26, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Here's a de-alphabetized version of the table that you can use with the sandbox if you want the column sorting tools etc. http://pastebin.com/aQTp3NDW— Preceding unsigned comment added by12.150.181.20 (talk) 19:06, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree putting all the colors in 1 table, but have 1 article for the table called "List of Colors Table" ,and the 2nd article about color shades and web colors called "List of Colors About". This is a table shown below of what article I proposed and what it'll have.

current article	should move to	Stuff after move
List of colors: A-M	List of colors table	The Color List and Table
List of colors: N-Z	List of colors about	Web Colors,Color Wheel,Fictional Colors,Color Shades of Main Colors

Contents
A B C D E F G H IJ K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X YZ White Pink Red Orange BrownYellow Gray Green Cyan Blue Violet Web colors Fictional colors See also FootnotesReferences
List of colors table	List of colors about	Both

Should I start a vote of this shown in table? Put comment below. Plus I'll have a registered user to do the move.24.218.110.195 (talk) 00:01 8 April 2013 (UTC) 8:01pm 4/7/2013 EDT

Colors need sources

The Alias (aka. Alternative and HTML name) column doesn’t make much sense for this table. People should sort the colors, e.g. by hex code, and then will find colors with multiple names next to each other. That’s the same way they are currently discovering associated names with various colors (when sorting alphabetically).

Therefore, we can repurpose this column. I suggest to put the source there and already have boldly done so for some entries. This is trivial for colors that have been defined with computers in mind, such as X11/W3C (CSS/SVG/HTML) colors, but CMYK, RYB, RAL, Crayola, Pantone and other customary/proprietary colors may not have an authoritative RGB/HSL/HSV definition. It’s probably better to divide this article along this distinction rather than arbitrarily between names starting with ‘M’ and ‘N’, e.g. something like List of named digital colors and List of named physical colors and perhaps List of named universal colors for those cases where the publisher defines color values for both worlds, computer and ink. (I, of course, over-simplifiy the issue of different color spaces.)

The sources, however, since often one specifies many colors, should be explained and linked to in a section below the table. — Christoph Päper 17:04, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

There isn't really a need to put sources because the sources are in the color box when you click the name of the color. However, there is nothing wrong with putting them that last column if you want to do that . The list should stay alphabetical A-M and N-Z because that makes it easiest for people to find the color they are looking for. We already have the X11 color names list and the List of Crayola crayon colors. If somebody wanted to make a list by the hue code from 0 to 360, then all the colors with similar hues would be together. I think that would look nice but that should be a separate list from this list because someone who didn't know a color could not find it by the hue code whereas they can easily find it alphabetically. Keraunos (talk) 04:48, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

I put some more sources in the last column so you can be familiar with some of the other major sources used. Keraunos (talk) 06:39, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

What is this crazy nonsense you did, deleting all the hex codes from the source edit document? I realize the chart is set up so that it is based on the rgb code, and the hex codes show up in the article, but why can't you just add the alias=source column at the end without deleting the hex codes in the source document? Keraunos (talk) 08:37, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Sometimes, people complain that some value is off for one color or the other. To make this list maintainable, it probably is best to supply as few values as necessary and let the rest be calculated automatically, although that decreases page loading performance. More frequently yet, such mistakes go by unnoticed.

The color names are linked to different articles. For instance, some X11 colors reference X11 color names, others an article about a similar color.

Since this table is sortable, we already have a list of colors by hue, except that it is split into two. Nevertheless, I didn’t suggest we do that anyway. I’m not sure whether people actually try to search for a color by name at least more than by other properties, especially since many color names are that arbitrary, but that default order is as good as any other. Some might like to find all Blues together, whatever they are prefixed or suffixed with – this table cannot do that.

What’s wrong with splitting the list into one for colors that have verifiable RGB values (or HSL/V, in whatever notation) and one for those that don’t? — Christoph Päper 10:32, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

There needs to be a master list of all colors arranged alphabetically. The list SHOULD NOT be split. If you want to make separate lists apart from the main list, that is something you have to decide if you want to do. Almost all the colors--at least 95%--already have verifiable rgb values because they were taken from some color list. Keraunos (talk) 06:40, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

I notice that on the List of colors: N-Z you reserved the source for the last column WITHOUT deleting the hex codes from the source document. The list of colors is not a static thing. I add a new color on the average of about once a week. I need to have a common format for uploading the color codes into Wikipedia. Also, there is another user who in turn uploads the new colors I add to the list of colors to the List of colors (compact). Can you please reformulate the List of colors A-M so it is like the List of colors N-Z and the hex code shows up in the source document? I need a common format for uploadng new colors. Keraunos (talk) 03:20, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing the alphabetical list individual letter direct function so that it works properly. Keraunos (talk) 03:20, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

I didn’t delete hex codes in N–Z because you criticized that for A–M and I wanted to discuss it first. I’d rather remove it, because the template easily generates the code correctly from the RGB parameters. It makes the table more maintainable, but also increases page load time for logged-in users.

Actually, the data for these lists would better be stored in Wikidata, but I have no experience with that yet. This way other language Wikipedias could reuse the data, assuming the color names are actually international “code words”, as is definitely the case for W3C and X11 values.

The alphabetic links, of course, only work correctly as long as the table is sorted by color names. — Christoph Päper 15:23, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Please also see Wikidata — Christoph Päper 10:11, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Split required

Looks like this article needs to be split again (maybe into A–F and G–Z). The template count is too high and it fails to process the navboxes in the shade section, not to mention taking forever to render and timing out on edits. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 09:17, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

By "this article", I meant the A–M article, and to split it into A–F and G–M (not G–Z). At the same time, I'd like to move the articles to use the correct (per MOS) endash character instead of a hyphen (and supply redirects from the hyphenated version). OK? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 23:57, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

I split the article into A-M and N-Z a few months ago because the article had gone up to over 120,000 kilobytes and download times were taking too long. Usually articles above 100,000 kilobytes are split. List of colors A-M is now at about 76,000 kilobytes. I was not thinking of splitting it again until it reached 100,000 kilobytes. Do you really think it needs to be split now? (You are right, the shade navboxes do not process and this needs to be fixed.) Keraunos (talk) 01:26, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Could you provide an example regarding what you mean by "using the correct endash character instead of a hyphen"? Keraunos (talk) 01:30, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Per MOS:ENDASH, ranges use an endash (e.g. A–F), not a hyphen (e.g. A-F). —[AlanM1(talk)]— 07:32, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

The list has now been split into three parts. The Colors by shade and Web colors sections appear in A–F and N–Z, but not G–M. I don’t think they need to repeated and I don’t think they should be included in these articles at all, but rather move to List of colors by shade or something like that. — Christoph Päper 09:52, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Done. I've completed the split/move and all the redirects, as well as fixed the inbound links that made sense to fix (I hope). For now, I removed the sections other than the color table from the G–M and N–Z articles. I assumed that they were the same in the N–Z article as the A–F article, or that the latter would have been more up-to-date. Perhaps someone could diff them from the history. Also note the new TOC template that lists only the letters for the colors in that article. Please advise if I missed anything. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 10:09, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Awesome

I was just passing by and noticed the color awesome, which linked to the wikipedia article for Amaranth, which doesn't contain the word awesome. I thought it was probably vandalism, but with so many equally peculiar names I thought I should ask first before changing it. Feel free to delete this paragraph once the problem has been dealt with, if it is a problem. (signed by 71.193.79.179 at 11:26, July 16, 2013‎)

Noticed the same thing; I also think it's vandalism..

Color Names

What organization determined the name of the variety of colors? As you know, colors are differently named by companies in areas like paint, furniture, clothing and cosmetics. It just seems like some company or person decided, "This is Floral White" and I'd like to know who that is. Thanks! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:36, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Performance, etc.

Once again, editing this article has been resulting in timeout errors. Versus splitting it again, I thought I'd take a crack at improving performance.

For the most part, even though the templates used to produce the color table support it, we do not use them to calculate most of the values. Only the S and L of the HSL value set are calculated. In the process of auditing the table, I found some to be incorrect due to a rounding bug in the way the template is implemented, too (probably because integral RGB % values are used for input).

Since the table is fairly static, and the values can be calculated easily enough, why not just hard-code them completely and eliminate all the calculation logic?

I created new versions of the table header template {{Colort}} (User:AlanM1/Template/Test2) and the row template {{Colort/color}} (User:AlanM1/Template/Test4) and made a copy of List of colors: A–F in User:AlanM1/Template/Test3 using the new templates. User:AlanM1/Template/Test5 contains only the list of colors table and nothing else. In addition to stripping the calculations, I also trimmed out styling params that weren't being used and narrowed the table to its minimum required width to help smaller screens.

Here's a comparison on the profiler info from a preview of the old (when it doesn't time out) and new articles:

Statistic	List of colors: A–F	Test3	Test5	Test6
CPU time usage (secs)	21.169	6.748	3.104	7.348
Real time usage (secs)	21.371	6.940	3.198	7.560
Preprocessor visited node count (/1000000)	148495	37642	15139	39892
Preprocessor generated node count (/1500000)	75249	78331	53524	141720
Post-expand include size (/2048000 bytes)	1688056	893872	481054	1285814
Template argument size (/2048000 bytes)	254647	85847	31703	78591
Highest expansion depth (/40)	18	14	14	14
Expensive parser function count (/500)	43	42	1	1

Notice that it's much faster. Also, most of the time is actually spent in the Colors by shade section (eliminated in Test5). If we move that to its own article, or if those templates can be improved (what "expensive parser functions are used?"), we might be able to merge the G–M and N–Z tables back into the A–F table so sorting will be useful for the whole range of colors. Edit: I've now done this – a complete color table is at User:AlanM1/Template/Test6, with profiling data shown above. It takes about 40% of the time to parse and render as the current A–F article. Still need to work on sorting correctly Edit: Solved. Moved % and ° units out of data and into headers.

Any objection to my moving forward with implementing these changes? I intend to move these new templates and rename them, not replace the existing calculating templates. Those will still be available if needed (though the rounding problem needs fixing). —[AlanM1(talk)]— 10:40, 9 November 2013 (UTC), Edited —[AlanM1(talk)]— 01:37, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Sounds like a good plan. Go for it! –jacobolus (t) 01:08, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Pineapple appears to be wrong

The "Pineapple" color has the same hex value as Old Heliotrope and English Violet (#563C5C), but when I manually calculate the listed RGB percentages (86,60,13), I get #563C5C. I'm not sure that's right either, which is why I didn't just fix it. Greenhexagon (talk) 04:49, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Add a color

I came here looking for the color Sulfur. I wanted to know the difference between two colors referenced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Birds of North America Online – Sulfur in the bill of a Glaucous-winged Gull, and Lemon in the bill of the closely related Western Gull (I think Sulfur is paler than Lemon; I'm looking for confirmation). As far as I can tell, naturalists are still using as a primary reference the Naturalist's Color Guide, a book that went out of print decades ago (they're hard to get and they're wearing out). I am baffled that they haven't got an online or downloadable reference yet. (Yes, I know, electronic reproduction isn't perfect. You should read the complaints about faded, field-battered copies of the Naturalist's Color Guide.) I'm also amazed that Sulfur isn't elsewhere considered a worthy color name, considering that unlike most others, it's objective: sulfur is a chemical element; its color under definable conditions is immutable. Yet it isn't in this list. Wildbirdz (talk) 03:23, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Disappointing

This article seems to be oriented towards what some screen monitor can emit (additive colors, compared to subtractive or constrastive). 30 years ago, I was browsing the reference section of our company's library and came across a set of large books published by one of the societies, federations, or associations (sorry, I don't recall the specifics) involved with color (in the USA). They consisted of thousands of pages of listing the names and a precise definition of each color (but I don't recall the method (color model) they used). Each volume of, iirc, 5 to 7 volumes must have had thousands of entries. So, this article wouldn't even qualify as a pale shadow of that work. I don't know whether that source still exists, whether it has been abandoned or superceded, but what is clear to me is this list here is vastly under populated. Another issue I have is the fact that the human eye sees far more than what the RGB model (or any other practical model) allows. Meaning there are colors which the eye sees and which can't be well captured in 3 (or 4) variables. Also, this article confuses the color of light with the general property described as 'color'. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Three things to consider are: 1. virtually all light is a mixture of wavelengths. Both the exact set of wavelengths, as well as their individual intensity matter A LOT in determining color. 2. Color may be additive (emission from a screen), subtractive (ink on white paper) or contrastive (perception of color in a context of other colors). Your perception of the color of an object depends on all these things (as well as illumination and mood). 3. There is a wide variety in both the retinas of individuals reaction to light as well as the filtering in the eye in front of the retina. Color perception changes with age, among many other things. While most of this stuff doesn't belong in this article, any general article on color, such as this one, should prominently refer to a "color basics" article (whatever that may be). For the sake of completeness, I should also note the example of the red car partially in the bright sunlight, partly in dark shade which we see as one color, even though there are hundreds if not thousands of different colors being seen by the eye.Abitslow (talk) 00:19, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

“Lenurple”?

I'm not a Wikipedia person so I don't know what to do here but I'm 99% sure that lenurple not a real color.

184.78.241.209 (talk) 05:03, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Confusion about Fuchsia (Crayola)

I'm doing a project that involves using the "RGB" values of colours and I've noticed some differences with the colour Fuchsia (Crayola). It's linked to Deep Fuchsia and that says it's the same but the RGB values given for deep fuchsia are not the same as the ones listed on the page for the list of Crayola colours. The RGB values on this page for fuchsia (Crayola) and deep fuchsia are the same. Is the List of Crayola Colors page wrong or do deep fuchsia and the Crayola colour not have the same values? Thanks for your help clearing this up. CanadianMacFan (talk) 18:25, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Question about Green-Blue

Hi. I noticed that this colour links to blue-green, which has RBG values of (13, 152, 186). Looking at green-blue it looks like it should link to the list of Crayola colors as it is a retired one and has RGB values of (17,100,180). Opinions? Thanks. CanadianMacFan (talk) 15:15, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Broken Link?

In See Also is the X11 Color Names link broken? The article exists, but the link disappears when I click on it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.213.212.231 (talk) 10:59, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Misdirecting links

Deep Green leads to some military project. Deep Red leads to a film. 72.23.47.154 (talk) 16:09, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

What happened to the Colors?

Why are suddenly all the colors are gone from tables? I've checked numerous filmography's and discography's tables and they all have lost they differing colors?Peachywink (talk) 01:23, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Note: figured it out on my own.Peachywink (talk) 22:00, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Missing Color

I can't find MU Gold anywhere. Can someone put it in the right place?--BigMac1212 (talk) 04:16, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Burgundy

This page has #800020 for Burgundy, but the Burgundy (color) page says #900020. Which is more accurate? --Anthrcer (click to talk to me) 06:15, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Metal Pink

I am removing metal pink. It was added with this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_colors:_G%E2%80%93M&diff=prev&oldid=694012245

and the subsequent edit which appear to provide a link to: Shades of pink But I found no such entry. A brief Google search did not turn up anything.--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:05, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Recent edits

I am concerned about some recent edits, which seem wrong, but I don't have time at the moment to look into it. I hope others who have watchlisted this will look at the last dozen or so edits.--S Philbrick(Talk) 00:52, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Mango Yellow

An IP made this edit, changing Mango Yellow from hex=96FF00 to hex=FDBE01.

The link goes to Shades of yellow , but there is no listing for Mango Yellow. The Shales of Yellow page has no entry for either hex=96FF00 or hex=FDBE01.

A Google search for "mango yellow color" turns up:

• mango yellow with hex =E8B85D

No other item exactly called Mango Yellow, although there exists:

• Color mango pulp yellow
• SAFFRON MANGO
• MANGO TANGO

While short of definitive, we have no color identified in Wikipedia as Mango Yellow, and I have not yet found evidence of a single color with that name and reliable published sources, so I am removing it from the list.--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:39, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Planned removals

I see that some entries in this list have links which do not go to an article about a color but about something other than a color.

For example Ginger and Lemon Lime.

It is my understanding that the point of this list is not to come up with plausible colors for objects, but to identify names of colors. Thus, while it may be the case that the color selected for Ginger is a reasonable approximation of the color of ginger, the should not be an entry for Ginger in this list unless someone demonstrates that the term Ginger is used as a color. That seems plausible but without a link to a reliable source it should not be in this list.

Let me know if my understanding of the inclusion criteria have been debated and differs from my expectation.

I plan to look for such examples and remove them.

The list of planned removals so far:

• Ginger
• Glitter
• Grizzly
• Lemon Lime
• Light Brilliant Red

--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:05, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

I'm rethinking ginger, given this, although it would be nice if someone added it to some article, such as Gold (color).--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:11, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Heart Gold

There appears to be a color with this name:

• link
• link

but we don't seem to have an article. The link to gold isn't right.--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:33, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

I removed each of these six "colors"; none has a linked article or section. Two (ginger and Heart Gold) Might have that potential, but until then, they do no qualify.--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:49, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Loeen Look

At one time, there was a color with hex=#15F2FD.

It was linked to Loeen (color) which doesn't exist, and named Loeen(lopen), then changed to Loeen(lopen)look/vomit+indogo+Lopen+Gabriel then back to Loeen look.

Not finding any article in Wikipedia, and only Loeen Look in Google, I am removing it from the list --S Philbrick(Talk) 21:55, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Serious business

This article is serious business ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.22.94.71 (talk) 07:42, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Neon Orange

Neon orange did have hex code 39FF14, which is clearly wrong because that's neon green. An IP editor attempted to change the hex code to FF6702 without updating the RGB HSV codes. I don't see any indication that the hex code corresponds to a named color but it certainly does not correspond to a named color for which we have an article. There may be a neon orange, possibly FD5F00, but not FF6702. Until someone takes the time to create the article or at least the section within the orange page for neon orange I'm deleting this entry.--S Philbrick(Talk) 00:46, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Dubious, unsourced colors

Several IPs have been adding colors which links to no article at all or links to a article#section which does not exist. This needs to be checked and fixed. I removed a number of additions here. Some of which, Navy blue as an example, had a minor change to the Hex and other parameters which did not agree with the Navy blue values. Jim1138 (talk) 11:18, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Capitalisation

I seem to be unable to bring these entries in line with MOS capitalisation standards. Even with piped links. Primergrey (talk) 19:11, 7 February 2018 (UTC)