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This article by Lea Verou, discusses that the colours we only see about 50% of the colours on websites that monitors are capable of displaying, because CSS standards haven’t caught up.
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Re: web colours
colak wrote #330582:
Of note of course is that many laptop & cheaper standalone monitors did a poor job at displaying colours. It is only the last 5 years that this has started to improve.
Rather, CSS has been very slow in implementing more/better colour formats1. And (some) browsers – ahem Firefox – have done a very bad job at displaying and calibrating colours. Is is only since last summer (2020) that Firefox can colour calibrate CSS colours, something Safari has been doing since forever. Firefox still does not understand the color-gamut
media query. FWIW.
But yeah, having those lab()
and lch()
formats will be great. You can already use them with Safari 14.1.
PS – it is a good article by Lea.
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1 HEX
and rgb()
are evil and should never have been supported. There, I said it.
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Re: web colours
Now that’s an interesting article. I need to read this in depth and digest it.
I love working with colours in CSS and enjoy collecting them for future projects. I have a colours.scss
file where I keep any interesting ones I find.
phiw13 wrote #330587:
HEX
andrgb()
are evil and should never have been supported. There, I said it.
I’m more of an HSLA
person myself, it makes way more sense to me then HEX
or RGBA
. I love working with HSLA
colours and using SASS to manipulate them using scale-color
.
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Algaris wrote #330600:
I’m more of an
HSLA
person myself, it makes way more sense to me thenHEX
orRGBA
. I love working withHSLA
colours and using SASS to manipulate them usingscale-color
.
Ditto that. I’ve started creating a library of CSS custom properties to manipulate those, though. And with those future color formats it will be much easier, as , I think Lea partly illustrates in her article
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