[Data-modeling] New properties for the "Visual Art" domain "Color" type

John Giannandrea jg at metaweb.com
Sat Jun 14 21:52:00 UTC 2008


Nick Thompson wrote:
> css_color could be used as a cotype to associate an #FF0000
> triplet with /en/red, but i still think that's a little
> misleading - there are probably at least 10 css_colors that are
> relevant to the topic /en/red, so the css_color would have to
> be a separate object to express this one-to-many relationship.

I think its definitely true that specific sRGB colors have multiple  
names in different dictionaries.

This seems like a good reference:
	http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/Color/Dictionaries

This might argue for making the sRGB palette objects and adding all  
the aliases rather than trying to reconcile with topics.

I think the fact that rgb.txt has worked its way into HTML, CSS,  
Javascript and .NET is a strong indication that naming colors is useful.

-jg



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