CNS

Toby Berk, Lee Brownston & Arie Kaufman in A New Color-Naming System for Graphics Languages, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 1982-05, S. 37.

System

color:

chromatic | achromatic

chromatic:

[saturation || lightness] hue

saturation:

(grayish | greyish) | moderate | strong | vivid

lightness:

very dark | dark | medium | light | very light

hue:

[secondary] (primary | primary-primary)

primary:

red | (orange | brown) | yellow | green | blue | purple

secondary:

reddish | (orangish | brownish) | yellowish | greenish | bluish

achromatic:

black | (very dark gray | very dark grey) | (dark gray | dark grey) | ((gray | grey) | (medium gray | medium grey)) | (light gray | light grey) | (very light gray | very light grey) | white

Siehe auch den Vorschlag aus www-style@w3.org, einer möglichen Alternative, sowie die Listen der X11 und Crayola Farbnamen.

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