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color confusion

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:43 pm
by s.dot
So, for a little while I never knew whether to spell the color gray with an E or an A. Gray, or Grey?

Well, I didn't care.

Then I was developing a webpage and was looking at HTML color names. You know.. like blue instead of #0000FF.

Turns out the color name for gray is grAy with an A.

But the color name lightgrey is lightgrEy with an E.

Confusion?

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:28 pm
by Chris Corbyn
I think it's a clash between American and British spellings. The british definitely spell it with an e. It's like color and colour (ermm... nah it's nothing like that :?)

Re: color confusion

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:54 pm
by Roja
scrotaye wrote:But the color name lightgrey is lightgrEy with an E.

Confusion?
There are several shades of grey available for use with HTML and CSS. Oddly, all are named somethinggray except lightgrey: this can cause unexpected errors (this discrepancy is inherited from the X11 color list).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:28 am
by s.dot
ah, interesting.

I also find it interesting that darkgray appears to be lighter than regular gray.