Comments on: X11 Colors list for Mac OS X

By: Tom Gidden

Tom Gidden — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:25:38 +0000

Interesting... good catch! I must admit, I very rarely know whether I should be working in Device or Calibrated colour space when doing content creation. Colour calibration always confuses me.

By: Mark H

Mark H — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:05:04 +0000

Thanks for the script.

Unfortunately, when I ran it and checked the output in Coda the colours were slightly off. Is this because it is using a different colour space?

When I changed "colorWithDeviceRed_green_blue_alpha_" to "colorWithCalibratedRed_green_blue_alpha_" it gave the correct results.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/DrawColor/Tasks/UsingColorSpaces.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001807-BCIGIEAI

Input file for OS X 10.6.6:
/usr/X11/share/X11/rgb.txt

By: Tom Gidden

Tom Gidden — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:10:31 +0000

Fair enough.. not "puce". My retinas threatened to burst when I saw it but I've managed to blot it out of my mind.

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 07:25:08 +0000

It's not a "... horrible shade of puce ..." it's aquamarine3 and I've been using it as my terminal font colour since 1996 - so there! :P But thanks, this helps me feel that little more confortable with my Unix/Apple laptop.