Re: [css-color] vendor named color enhancement

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Christoph Päper
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]>:
>>
>> We also have a syntax for colorspaces that define named colors instead
>> of exposing numeric channels: `color(pantone "101 C")` is how we would
>> write your example color, assuming we had a Pantone colorspace
>> builtin.
>>
>> We'd love to work with you to get a royalty-free reference for the
>> Pantone color system, suitable for wide implementation in browsers, to
>> aid in printing and color management for companies using the Pantone
>> standards.  If you can help with that, great! The "royalty-free" part
>> has been what's blocked us in the past, or else we would have already
>> added it, given the evident demand.  The W3C has strict requirements
>> on what kinds of things it allows to be standardized.
>
> Just for the record, other proprietary or industry-standard color naming systems besides Pantone/PMS that have been proposed (more or less seriously) in the past (some as early as 1997) include:
>
> * HKS (spot, tone) <http://www.hks-farben.de/en_us/>
> * RAL <http://www.ral-farben.de/content/footer-navigation/footer-anwendungen-hilfe/application-help/ral-colour-names.html>
> * CI <http://colour-index.com/technical-info>
> * Crayola <http://www.crayola.com/explore-colors.aspx>
> * NCS (Natural Color System)
> * ISCC–NBS
> * CcMmYK
> * RYB (red, yellow, blue), subtractive
> * TSL (tint, saturation, luminance) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSL_color_space>
> * …

No one's asked for those in years (and several of them were last
proposed when we were trying to decide on a named color system, so
their usefulness is much lesser now).  I've heard requests for Pantone
during my tenure here, tho.

~TJ