Appendix talk:Colors

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If anyone's looking for a listing of colours and information on colour etymology, check out this post on my blog - Fagan

It seems to me that most colors are adjectives?

-Dan

And nouns, or not?Polyglot 01:46, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Colours are both adjectives and nouns. -- Aulis Eskola

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An anonymous contributor posted that "moccasin is not a colour" (see the page history of "moccasin" at [1]). Anyone know whether it is or not? -- Paul G 15:23, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Seems to be (RGB ff e4 b5). I will just add a bar.. -- Aulis Eskola

Subpages

Somehow we ended up with two colour appendices: Appendix:Colours & Appendix:Colors. I found them to be mostly the the same when I compared them today. However, they had their differences. One would only assume that they'd only grow further & further apart. I came up with a solution to this problem of keeping them in synch. I moved most of the content to subpages with parameters for varient spellings. There are three parameters in use. Setting ay=ay gives you the spelling gray, or=or gives color and f=f gives sulfur. The default spellings are grey, colour and sulphur. Appendix:Colours displays Commonwealth spelling (with a mention of the US spelling at the top). Similarly Appendix:Colors displays US spelling (with a mention of the Commonwealth spelling at the top). Otherwise the pages are (and if the solution is found agreeable, will remain) identical. Jimp 16:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Broken link? (Green)

I tried clicking on the Greens under Contents/2. Color Grouping, and it doesn't seem to jump over to Green and Olive. Other links work. I believe it has to do with the title. Though I think fixing Green and Olive to just Green would make it work, I'm not sure where I can fix the Green to link it to Green and Olive. So, could someone who has knowledge of where to fix it repair the link? Thanks in advance.
-- BryghtShadow (talk,contribs) 08:05, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Edit - I've managed to find the page, and have fixed it to "Greens and Olives".

-- BryghtShadow (talk,contribs) 08:11, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Colours to add

Here are some colours we should add. I'd do it myself, but don't know how to make the colours!

- British Racing Green
- hair brown (this is a colour referred to by Georgette Heyer - along with many already listed - in her historical novels) 58.168.207.217 11:48, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Problem with color groups?

The list of blues (at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Colours#Blues) has "sky blue" illustrated with a bgcolor of 4C7191. I think it should be 87CEEB. Someone maybe should check the rest (I excuse myself due to my red/green colorblindness) - 139.79.121.22 10:14, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

quite so, the HTML standard colour "SkyBlue" is 87CEEB. good catch. Fixed. Robert Ullmann 10:50, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

English

Can we get the word 'English' in the title somehow? --Mglovesfun (talk) 11:38, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Groupings

I think that splitting brown from oranges is a mistake and gr(a/e)y is not somehow more like black than it is like white―it should have its own group. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:39, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Glitch under section D

Script code is displaying for section "D" instead of the intended look. I don't know enough about coding to fix that. Koh Flugilo (talk) 14:16, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

@Koh Flugilo: Fixed, thanks. Seems like that error has been present a really long time but went unnoticed. — Sgconlaw (talk) 19:19, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

appendix with color list

the definition of ocean includes the color ocean. I think the color list should include all words that are named as colors in the definitions. RBGman (talk) 05:04, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:37, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

appendix with color list

the definition of night includes the color night. the color list should include all the colors listed as colors in the definitions RBGman (talk) 05:30, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:37, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Authority for RGB colour values

Does anyone know where the RGB colours on this page come from? I mean, who says that "chocolate" is "#61463E"? (At https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-names/, it says that chocolate is #D2691E, which actually doesn't look anything like chocolate to me, on the screen.) Or "shocking pink" being "#E295C1", or all the rest. What is the authority for this? Mihia (talk) 21:48, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

There is none: it's arbitrary. Some are by convention (like red), but there is no singular and authoritative definition for "shocking pink". —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:49, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

So anyone can come along and add their own interpretation of what a particular named colour looks like? I'm not sure I totally agree with that -- or, at least, I think it should be stated that these are editors' personal opinions/impressions. At the moment it easily seems that these are somehow "official" definitions, what with them being in a dictionary. Mihia (talk) 22:40, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

@Mihia: I sometimes try to align the colour values used here with those at the English Wikipedia, but there doesn't seem to be any authoritative source on which colour names go with which values. If you can find one, let us know. — Sgconlaw (talk) 23:04, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Alternately, there are several sources for definitions of color names but there is no single authority for all colors. We could use Pantone or Crayola or [photo editing software] or etc. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:18, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

@Koavf: do companies like Crayola or Pantone provide the hex values they use for their colours? — Sgconlaw (talk) 11:26, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

I don't know, actually, but I do know that it's trivially easy to find "Pantone to hex" converters and various lists of "Crayola to hex values" lists online, so it's even more complicated. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:01, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

In any case, I think that the text should explain where the RGB values come from. Even if it's too much work to go to the per-colour level, the intro should IMO at least say "these RBG values are based on a combination of X, Y, Z ...". Mihia (talk) 20:27, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

@Mihia: that seems to me to go too much into technicalities. Unless we can agree on an authoritative source (maybe Pantone?), maybe it would be better to just have a note explaining that different people have different impressions of the hue which a particular colour name connotes, and that the colours displayed are just representative shades. — Sgconlaw (talk) 20:55, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

I have already amended it to say something like that. If you can improve it, please do. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:58, 3 January 2025 (UTC)