Talk:Web colors

"Web-safe" listed at Redirects for discussion

File:Information.svg An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Web-safe and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 2#Web-safe until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 21:00, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 2 August 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) NW1223<Howl at me•My hunts> 22:12, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

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Web colors → Template:No redirect – WP:SINGULAR. (I had originally made this move boldly, but then saw how it could potentially be controversial.) Steel1943 (talk) 21:18, 2 August 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 00:24, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

• Support - for the reason as proposed. Primergrey (talk) 01:09, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
• Comment is there something I'm missing about why, given WP:SINGULAR and WP:PLURAL, this doesn't fall under the exception for Template:Tq. I see in general color articles are mix of plural vs singular: Complementary colors but Primary color, for example. Skynxnex (talk) 14:50, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

  Template:Ping My assumption in the matter is that Primary color is singular since there can be one by itself, but Complementary colors is plural since they always come in pairs. I'm not sure if that rationale applies to "web color(s)" since yes, there are three colors that are used (or is it a singular combination of the three colors???) and they all have to be set up a certain way, but does that mean they always have to be paired together? Steel1943 (talk) 19:16, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

• Lean oppose. This is about a list or class of things, and even though you can have one by itself, the article is about them as a group. It makes more sense for the title to be plural. P Aculeius (talk) 22:03, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose per Skynxnex and P Aculeius. This is the article about a class of things, and you cannot have just one "web color". No such user (talk) 13:13, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose per User:No such user. This is about a class of colours, not about any individual colour. JIP | Talk 00:32, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Need to finish the Accessibility part--like the part that would address accessibility

Accessibility does not even mention colorblindness DrKC MD (talk) 03:49, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Inverted colours

Probably due to Dark Mode, the rendered colours are inverted; white has become black, black became white, and yellow became a dirty dark brown. סשס Grimmchild. He/him, probably 12:49, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Capitalized colors?

In the industry, you will never see colors capitalized in this way. DarkGreen would be written as darkgreen in the code. Both still work, but so would DaRKgrEEN and we wouldn't use that. To reflect best practice, would it not be more prudent to write all colors in lowercase to better demonstrate the standard? Yibletaa (talk) 13:53, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Template:Replyto It doesn't matter. In the CSS Color Module Level 3 W3C Recommendation 18 January 2022, section 4.1. Basic color keywords, it says The color names are ASCII case-insensitive., and by extension, this also applies to the names defined in section 4.3. Extended color keywords. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:59, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

I acknowledged that in my comment. My point isn't that it's technically incorrect but that it doesn't reflect best practice/industry standard. Yibletaa (talk) 22:47, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Also, note how in W3C's list of extended color keywords that you linked, they also list all the colors strictly in lowercase - most likely for the same reason I'm suggesting it. Yibletaa (talk) 22:49, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes, they list them all in lowercase, but you should not infer anything from that. Perhaps the people who typed up that page couldn't be bothered to use the shift key any more than grammatically necessary. Perhaps they had an aversion to capitals outside of English sentences. Perhaps they pushed the whole block through the UNIX command tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'. We just don't know. In any case, it is not Wikipedia's place to decide what is "right" or "wrong", we report on what others have already described, and we show our source. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:19, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Then even if we ignore best practice, this page is still not reflecting the standard that is presented in either of the two sources, 4.3. Extended color keywords or 4.4 Recognized color keyword names, attributed to the list. Yibletaa (talk) 16:02, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Article title

I'm a little surprised by the title of this article. It seems to be a very thorough description of the system of defining colours in terms of three 8-bit values. This system is widely used in many branches of computing, and is in no way specific to the web. If the web never existed, most or all of the information in the article would still stand.

I'm not necessarily suggesting that the article should be moved - and I don't claim to have a better title in mind. It just seems a little strange to use such a specific title for what is clearly a more general topic. Mike Marchmont (talk) 16:39, 14 February 2025 (UTC)