[CREATE] Re: [OpenICC] colour palettes/lists

[Alan Horkan]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:47:38 +0400
> From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com>
> To: openicc <openicc at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Cc: create at lists.freedesktop.org, Igor Novikov <igor_nov at ukrpost.net>
> Subject: [CREATE] Re: [OpenICC] colour palettes/lists
>
> On 9/15/05, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to bring over a discussion from the create list:
> > What is a usual/standard format to store colour lists for exchanging
> > between applications.
>
> My head starts hurting. If "colour lists" equals to "color sets" and
> "color swatches", could we please use one term, in particular - the
> one users will see in GUI (which would rather be "swatches")?

I think this would be a big help.

If I have actually made sense of this conversation the colour profiles
needed for calibrating monitors and printers are also of use as colour
swatches (aka colour palettes).  Is that even close to what has been
talked about?

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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