[OpenICC] colour palettes/lists

[Lars Borg]

What about Gretag's file format, CxF, Color Exchange Format?

Last time I heard, CxF is basically an XML-based swatch library. It 
can hold colorant names, Lab values, spectral values, ICC profile 
references, etc.

Lars

At 10:19 AM +0200 9/16/05, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
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>On Friday 16 September 2005 10:25, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
>>  Even if spot colours are a very interessting toppic, I like to bring the
>>  attention to the origin of my post:
>>
>>    Colour palettes in the sense of a colour collections for brushes, pens
>>    and so on in drawing applications.
>>
>>
>>  So let me repeat my question(s) about colour palettes for painting:
>>
>>  Are there widely used formats for inter application exchange of pen
>>  colours (documented and extensible)?
>
>I think there are only two widely used formats: Gimp's and Photoshop's.
>The Gimp format is quite limited, so I'd say yes, to the following question:
>
>>  Is there a need for a new one?
>
>I want to be able to describe colors in any colorspace, and preferably to add
>a link to a profile so I know what those color hexes actually mean.
>
>>  Would be the Microsoft xml format a valuable candidate (documentation)?
>>  What about svg?
>>  Is the overlapping of a colour managment colour list format (CGATS/ncl2)
>>  and an painting colour palette desireable?
>
>But I don't know about these questions: that's beyond me.
>
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