From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 12:16:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4811065670 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:16:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rvm@CBORD.com) Received: from smssmtp.cbord.com (mx1.cbord.com [24.39.174.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA8718FC19 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:16:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rvm@CBORD.com) X-AuditID: ac1f0165-00000ed8000004fc-d4-48bfd1976800 Received: from Email.cbord.com ([10.1.1.100]) by smssmtp.cbord.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:16:22 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:14:37 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200809031832.57312.kline@thought.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: which gray is best for print? Thread-Index: AckOOinwMJdfqiq6QK68+coAtOlAHAATS00g References: <20080903231439.GA98955@thought.org><20080904012607.1f10dde3.freebsd@edvax.de> <200809031832.57312.kline@thought.org> From: "Bob McConnell" To: "Gary Kline" , "Polytropon" X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: RE: which gray is best for print? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:16:18 -0000 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 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 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