Colour Name to RGB/Hex/HSL/HSV etc?

The canonical CSS color names originated in X11 and the intersection of the sets - along with their RGB values can be found at Wikipedia.

The canonical CSS color names originated in X11 and the intersection of the sets - along with their RGB values can be - found at Wikipedia. A more easily parsed list can be found in various rgb. Txt files scattered over the web, but these are likely the X11 set not the CSS set.

Added: Given an RGB value you can compute nearby colors by HSL conversion. Color palettes - sets of colors that go well together - are an art not a science, Google 'em.

I am making use of a similar mapping already but it will return only one value. Not other similar colours or the yellow or green colour of families, if I passed in yellow or green. – Abs Apr 4 '10 at 1:36 If "yellow" is in-putted, return all other yellows that exist.

This isn't a colour palette! I had a look at that page already today - it didn't seem to find nearby colors, I'll have a look again, maybe the maths is a bit difficult for me. – Abs Apr 4 '10 at 1:48 grep yellow rgb.

Txt will do what I think you are asking, but it will give poor results because many color-names that you might call "yellow" don't have "yellow" in their names. You probably need to read up on what color means to better understand the question you are trying to ask. The idea "yellows" is more complicated than we normally think.

– msw Apr 4 '10 at 2:11.

Why don't you use the ccs Color names. W3c webstandard --> CSS3/SVG Farben.

I am making use of a similar mapping already but it will return only one value. Not other similar colours or the yellow or green colour of families, if I passed in yellow or green. – Abs Apr 4 '10 at 1:37.

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