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- From: bwebster@pages.com (Bruce F. Webster)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: RGB Values of "NeXT Help Blue"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.211500.1479@pages.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:15:00 GMT
- References: <1k3072$j8n@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Sender: bwebster@pages.com
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- Organization: Pages Software Inc.
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- In article <1k3072$j8n@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi
- Ohzawa) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan26.010722.7575@strangeways.unh.edu>
- tjb@strangeways.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker)
- > writes:
- > >
- > >Does anyone know the exact rgb values of the blue that NeXT uses in their
- help
- > >panels (like for Mail)? It has the quality of being blue on color machines
- and
- > >pure light grey on monochome ones.
- >
- > R=0.2000, G=0.26667, B=0.60000
- > or
- > H=0.6388, S=0.66667, B=0.60000
- > or
- > C=0.8000, M=0.73333, Y=0.40000, K=0
- >
-
- As a more general solution, if you're wondering about the color of something,
- bring up a color panel (in Mail, it's in Format/Font/Colors...) grab the
- magnifying tool, move it over the color you want, then click. That color is now
- in the main well of the panel. Now use the settings subpanel to read the RGB
- (or CMYK or HSB) values of that color (remembering to normalize the value by
- dividing it by 255). So, for example, on my system, the shade of blue used in
- the text in Mail's Help panel is: R = 51, G = 68, B = 136 (which, by the way,
- gives me B = 0.5333 instead of 0.6000; is there something I'm doing wrong,
- Izumi?). ..bruce..
-
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