Talk:HTML color names

Can someone add a redirect from "HTML colour names" to cope with those of us who use British English. TYIA. 80.229.38.101 14:48, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Named Colors
Sixteen named colors? This page shows the names of 140 different colors, and how each color looks on the web. Colors such as: Peru Saddlebrown Crimson Burlywood Plum Tomato Lime Salmon <li><font face=gulimche color=chartreuse>Chartreuse <li><font face="book antiqua" color=indianred>Indian Red <li><font face=tahoma color=springgreen>Spring Green <li><font face=georgia color=goldenrod>Goldenrod <li><font face=verdana color=olive>Olive <li><font face=garamond color=gold>Gold <li><font face=impact color=rosybrown>Rosy Brown </ol> Many of the colors look nice and deserve to be mentioned here; some are too light to easily see, as <font face=Impact color=snow>snow and <font face=Garamond color=ivory>ivory ; a few as <font face=georgia color=chocolate>chocolate and <font face=georgia color=brown>brown are different from what wikipedia says they are. Chocolate looks like a variation of dark orange. brown looks rather reddish. Jon (talk) 13:29, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * This article is about the named colors of the HTML standard in which there were only 16. I've updated the article to make it more clear.  The "full list" you're probably interested in is on the CSS3 color list which uses the X11 color names. Angelo  05:58, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

font-Element deprecated
As the -Element is nowadays deprecated, shouldn't the example in the first lines be modified? --Azaël (talk) 16:04, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Red, Green, Blue percentages incorrect
Some of the percentages listed in the table are incorrect or misleading. The hex values 80 and C0 do not correspond to percentages of "50%" and "75%". Since FF (255) is 100%, the percentage of "80" is equal to 128/255 which is approximately 50.196%; similarly, "C0" is equal to 192/255 which is approximately 75.294%. In fact, since there is an even number of levels for each of the red, green, or blue, there does not exist any level that is exactly halfway or three-quarters of the way between the lowest and highest levels. A reader seeing a nice fraction like 50% or 75% will likely conclude that it is exact, when it is not, thus it is misleading. Since these percentages are not specified in the HTML specification (it just has the hex values), we should either remove them, or replace them with non-whole percentage approximations. The same applies for the values for hue, saturation, etc. --208.80.119.67 (talk) 03:23, 30 June 2011 (UTC)