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X11 color names

Index X11 color names

In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. [1]

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  1. 83 relations: Alice blue, Aqua (color), Aquamarine (color), Azure (color), Beige, Black, Blue, Camel case, Chartreuse (color), Color term, Computing, Coral (color), Cornflower blue, Crayola, Crayon, Crimson, CSS, Cyan, Digital Equipment Corporation, Dodger blue, Fuchsia (color), Gold (color), Goldenrod (color), Green, Grey, HSL and HSV, HTML, Indigo, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Iron oxide red, Ivory (color), Jim Gettys, Khaki, Lavender (color), Lightness, Lime (color), Lists of colors, Magenta, Maroon, Midnight blue, Navajo white, Navy blue, NCSA Mosaic, Netscape Navigator, Olive (color), Orchid (color), Pink, Powder blue, Purple, Red, ... Expand index (33 more) »

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Alice blue

Alice blue is a pale tint of azure that was favored by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, which sparked a fashion sensation in the United States.

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Aqua (color)

Aqua (Latin for "water") is a variation of the color cyan.

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Aquamarine (color)

Aquamarine is a color that is a light tint of teal, in between cyan and green on the color wheel.

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Azure (color)

Azure is the color between cyan and blue on the spectrum of visible light.

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Beige

Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow.

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Black

Black is a color that results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light.

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Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model.

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Camel case

Camel case (sometimes stylized autologically as camelCase or CamelCase, also known as camel caps or more formally as medial capitals) is the practice of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation and with capitalized words.

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Chartreuse (color)

Chartreuse, also known as yellow-green or greenish yellow, is a color between yellow and green.

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Color term

A color term (or color name) is a word or phrase that refers to a specific color. X11 color names and color term are color names.

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Computing

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery.

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Coral (color)

The various tones of the color coral are orange, red and pink representations of the colors of those cnidarians known as precious corals.

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Cornflower blue

Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green.

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Crayola

Crayola LLC, formerly the Binney & Smith Company, is an American manufacturing and retail company specializing in art supplies.

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Crayon

A crayon (or wax pastel) is a stick of pigmented wax used for writing or drawing.

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Crimson

Crimson is a rich, deep red color, inclining to purple.

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CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for specifying the presentation and styling of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). X11 color names and CSS are Cascading Style Sheets.

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Cyan

Cyan is the color between blue and green on the visible spectrum of light.

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Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s.

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Dodger blue

Dodger blue is a rich bright tone of the color azure named for its use in the uniform of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Fuchsia (color)

Fuchsia is a vivid pinkish-purplish-red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.

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Gold (color)

Gold, also called golden, is a color tone resembling the gold chemical element.

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Goldenrod (color)

Goldenrod is a color that resembles the goldenrod plant.

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Green

Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum.

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Grey

Grey (more common in Commonwealth English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white.

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HSL and HSV

HSL and HSV are the two most common cylindrical-coordinate representations of points in an RGB color model.

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HTML

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.

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Indigo

Indigo is a term used for a number of hues in the region of blue.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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Iron oxide red

Iron oxide red is a generic name of a ferric oxide pigment of reddish colors.

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Ivory (color)

Ivory is an off-white color named after, and derived from, the material made from the tusks and teeth of certain animals, such as the elephant and the walrus.

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Jim Gettys

Jim Gettys (born 15 October 1953) is an American computer programmer.

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Khaki

The color khaki is a light shade of tan with a slight yellowish tinge.

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Lavender (color)

Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet.

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Lightness

Lightness is a visual perception of the luminance (L) of an object.

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Lime (color)

Lime is a color that is a shade of yellow-green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes.

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Lists of colors

These are the lists of colors;. X11 color names and lists of colors are color names.

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Magenta

Magenta is a purplish-red color.

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Maroon

Maroon (US/UK, Australia) is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut.

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Midnight blue

Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue named for its resemblance to the apparently blue color of a moonlit night sky around a full moon.

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Navajo White is an orangish white color, or pastel yellow orange, and derives its name from its similarity to the background color of the Navajo Nation flag.

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Navy blue is a dark shade of the color blue.

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NCSA Mosaic

NCSA Mosaic was among the first widely available web browsers, instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.

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Netscape Navigator

Netscape Navigator is a discontinued web browser, and the original browser of the Netscape line, from versions 1 to 4.08, and 9.x. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corp and was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s, but by around 2003 its user base had all but disappeared.

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Olive (color)

Olive is a dark yellowish-green color, like that of unripe or green olives.

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Orchid (color)

Orchid is a bright rich purple color that resembles the color which various orchids often exhibit.

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Pink

Pink is the color of a namesake flower that is a pale tint of red.

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Powder blue

Powder blue is a pale shade of blue.

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Purple

Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light.

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Red

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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Red-violet

Red-violet refers to a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta, closer to magenta than to red.

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Revision Control System

Revision Control System (RCS) is an early implementation of a version control system (VCS).

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RGB color model

The RGB color model is an additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors of light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.

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Royal blue

Royal blue is a deep and vivid shade of blue.

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Salmon (color)

Salmon is a warm color ranging from light orange to pink, named after the color of salmon flesh.

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Seashell (color)

Seashell is an off-white color that resembles some of the very pale pinkish tones that are common in many seashells.

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Shades of orange

In optics, orange has a wavelength between approximately 585 and 620 nm and a hue of 30° in HSV color space.

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Shades of pink

Pink colors are usually light or desaturated shades of reds, roses, and magentas which are created on computer and television screens using the RGB color model and in printing with the CMYK color model.

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Shades of red

Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation, intensity, or colorfulness) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities.

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Shades of white

Shades of white are colors that differ only slightly from pure white.

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Silver (color)

Silver or metallic gray is a color tone resembling gray that is a representation of the color of polished silver.

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Sky blue

Sky blue refers to a collection of shades comparable to that of a clear daytime sky.

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Slate gray

Slate gray is a gray color with a slight azure tinge that is a representation of the average color of the material slate.

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Spring green

Spring green is a color that was traditionally considered to be on the yellow side of green, but in modern computer systems based on the RGB color model is halfway between cyan and green on the color wheel.

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SRGB

sRGB is a standard RGB (red, green, blue) color space that HP and Microsoft created cooperatively in 1996 to use on monitors, printers, and the World Wide Web.

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Steel blue

Steel blue is a shade of blue color that resembles blue steel, i.e., steel which has been subjected to bluing for protection from rust.

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SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for defining two-dimensional graphics, having support for interactivity and animation.

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Tan (color)

Tan is a pale tone of brown.

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Teal

Green-winged teal (male) Teal is a greenish-blue color.

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Tint, shade and tone

In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness.

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Turquoise (color)

Turquoise is a cyan color, based on the mineral of the same name.

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Video Graphics Array

Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a video display controller and accompanying de facto graphics standard, first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, which became ubiquitous in the IBM PC compatible industry within three years.

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Violet (color)

Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum.

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VT220

The VT200 series is a family of computer terminals introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in November 1983.

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Web colors

Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web; they can be described by way of three methods: a color may be specified as an RGB triplet, in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to its common English name in some cases. X11 color names and web colors are Cascading Style Sheets.

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Wheat (color)

Wheat is a color that resembles the light yellow of the wheat grain.

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White

White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue).

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World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.

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X PixMap

X PixMap (XPM) is an image file format used by the X Window System, created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors. X11 color names and x PixMap are x Window System.

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X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

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X Window System core protocol

The X Window System core protocolRobert W. Scheifler and James Gettys: X Window System: Core and extension protocols, X version 11, releases 6 and 6.1, Digital Press 1996, RFC 1013Grant Edwards. X11 color names and x Window System core protocol are x Window System.

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X11 color names

In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. X11 color names and X11 color names are Cascading Style Sheets, color names and x Window System.

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Yellow

Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light.

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See also

Cascading Style Sheets

Color names

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names

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