[CREATE] What is a "swatch" ?

[Jon A. Cruz]

On Sep 28, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Craig Bradney wrote:

> Do we have to confuse it all and have one single file to determine  
> all of
> these things?
>
> Colors
> Patterns
> Gradients
>
> Various formats exist for those, but the idea of the colour format  
> was to
> define colours..

Actually that's a very good question.

Right off hand I think of the complement to that... why does an  
artist need to store all his things in separate boxes?

 From early on I've been a proponent of trying to get programs to  
follow general art usage and term, instead of having artists change  
their work habits to meet specific implementations of programs.

What I keep hearing from artists is that they want a "swatch book"  
format, not just a "flat color" thing. So that's exactly why I raised  
the question of what is the goal. Do we need to spec a swatch format,  
or only a color format?

One thing I would be very happy with is specifying a color format  
that will fit inside of a new swatch format. So those who care only  
about flat colors will be happy, but then those programs that want to  
share a bit more can do that too.

I think perhaps listing out a few scenarios about how end users may  
actually interact with things would be good. If we get some of those  
going, it is likely to lead us to a better grasp on how things should  
or should not be implemented behind the scenes.

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