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Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:53 am
by JAB Creations
I'm interested in becoming aware of any common web color pallet formats that are available online mostly intended to be compatible for import/export.
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:20 am
by onion2k
What's a "web colour palette format"?
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:27 am
by JAB Creations
Basically any plain text format that contains hexadecimal color values. I'm just interested in what formats are being used/popular.
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:29 am
by onion2k
You mean like #FFFFFF, #FFF, and FFFFFF? And rgb(255,255,255) if you count CSS stuff.
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:41 am
by JAB Creations
Not RGB, just hex.
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:02 am
by superdezign
Then unless we're misunderstanding your question, then you've answered it for yourself.
As long as RGB is limited to 256 possible values for each attribute, hex code will be the standard.
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:30 am
by JAB Creations
Hex color values stored in a file format, I don't see how this is difficult to understand?
Here is an XML example...
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><color>ffffff</color><color>000</color><color>46f223</color><color>123</color>
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:55 am
by VladSun
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:04 am
by onion2k
JAB Creations wrote:Hex color values stored in a file format
What would you use a file like that for?
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:23 am
by JAB Creations
All I'm asking if any one knows about existing color pallet formats. Maybe I should ask this question in a more multimedia oriented forum.
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:33 am
by Eran
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:47 am
by pickle
There is no standard "colour palette" format. Palettes can be used in a variety of ways (designing in Photoshop, put into CSS), so there's no real standard (XML or otherwise) format for communicating a colour palette used for the web.
There are web-safe colour palettes if that's what you want.
Re: Common Web Color Pallet formats?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:48 am
by JAB Creations
Yes thanks, that's going roughly in the right direction.
But to give it the umph it needs it looks like this would be most handy...
http://www.hping.org/aco2html/
...and yes that is why I asked about format
s being plural.
