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SeaGreen Colors in Mathematica

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  • Subject: [mg79165] SeaGreen Colors in Mathematica
  • From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:22:32 -0400 (EDT)

The naming of the SeaGreen colors has always seemed reversed to me:

Table[Graphics[{ColorData["HTML", a], Rectangle[], Black,
   Text[a, {1, 1}/2]},
  ImageSize -> Tiny], {a, {"SeaGreen", "MediumSeaGreen",
   "DarkSeaGreen"}}]

Wouldn't most people say that SeaGreen was darker than DarkSeaGreen?

Unfortunately we can't lay this at the door of WRI because it seems to be a 
standard in the digital world. If I compare the Mathematica colors to the 
definitions given in my HTML guide they are the same.

{ColorData["HTML"]["SeaGreen"], ColorData["HTML"]["MediumSeaGreen"],
 ColorData["HTML"]["DarkSeaGreen"]}
{{46, 139, 87}/255., {60, 179, 113}/255., {143, 188, 143}/255.}

-- 
David Park
djmpark at comcast.net
http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/




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