Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:14:37 -0400 From: "Bob McConnell" <rvm@CBORD.com> To: "Gary Kline" <kline@thought.org>, "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: which gray is best for print? Message-ID: <FF8482A96323694490C194BABEAC24A003365BEE@Email.cbord.com> In-Reply-To: <200809031832.57312.kline@thought.org> References: <20080903231439.GA98955@thought.org><20080904012607.1f10dde3.freebsd@edvax.de> <200809031832.57312.kline@thought.org>
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On Behalf Of Gary Kline > On Wed September 3 2008 16:26:07 Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:14:42 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > > Or if there is a color-chooser in ports, that too, altho I haven't found > > > anything in ports/x11 or ports/www. > >=20 > > You may check /usr/ports/x11/xcolorsel, allthough I prefer the > > color choosing dialog of Gimp which provides a hex readout of > > the selected color, as well as the RGB or CMY values (last one > > interesting if you want to print something). >=20 > Yeah, you were right about the xcolorsel being less useful than the GIMP. I=20 > typed in "333366" and found others that were as nice. Then found a=20 > december.com site with more info. "000033" is a named and safe color or ink. >=20 > Still more to back and look at, read up on.=20 W3Schools has some color charts at <http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp>; that could be useful. They built a chart that shows which colors most browsers can understand. They also have some grey scale charts at the end of their advanced HTML tutorial. Bob McConnell
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