[CREATE] Color swatches

[Olivier BERTEN]

Cyrille Berger a écrit :

> I disagree, that would mean the color would look different when it is used. 
>   
It IS the case for all web development since (simple) RGB values are 
transmitted over the web to people who, for most of them, use no 
calibrated screen or printer. So colors look different in most of the 
cases. It would be unfair to make people believe that since the colors 
are defined in a color space that they will look the same on other 
people's screens. It will be approximately the same, not exactly as the 
presence of an icc profile could make people believe. As far as I know, 
web color 'lightslategray' will be #778899 even on a AdobeRGB calibrated 
screen.

By the way, most of the users of Inkscape or Gimp aren't professional 
and don't have (again) a calibrated screen and/or printer so the colors 
won't be the same anyway even if there's a icc profile attached.

Color spaces are needed only for the printing industry, not for web and 
not for "normal" people. So the software should show a "print quality 
label" for swatches (or colors) that have a profile attached but it 
shouldn't be mandatory in the specification.
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