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	This chart's objective is a comparison of hue names. I would like to assign colors used as philatelic inks, but can not do this exactly. Many color names are assigned to specific years of stamp issue, and the same name will be a different shade for another issue. The capacity of the 256x256x256 RGB color system is 16777216 colors. Due to space and reasonableness considerations, many will be omitted. Some Munsell colors outside of the RGB gamut are noted as "APPROX" in the color box. All colors shown are approximate, multiple shades can be found for the same "name", and no correction is applied for viewing angle, light source temperature, coated vs. uncoated etc. Gamma is 2.2. Fan decks or chips should be consulted for pigments. Copyright statements are on the index page. Color names are artifically generated for 4096 combinations, hue degrees and selected others. Alphabetic color order includes modifiers. Colors of similar hues will be found together in hue degree tables. Payment or registration is required for some other proprietary color systems not mentioned.

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CMYK

color

NETSCAPE NAME, SAS NAME, sas color description, HIGHLIGHTED NAME in color name table, VACC (Visibone Anglo-Centric Color Code) Name, CSS System Name, other color name
English/ German/ French/ Spanish/ Italian/ Dutch translations when available, (!)=confirmed calculation or value

A= Ameron(NZ)
AN= Anchor silk
B=6x6x6= 216 Browser Safe VACCC: 60 hues
BF= Briefmarken finder (Stamp Finder)
BI= Bottles and Insulators
BM= Benjamin Moore
BP= Benjamin Moore Preview
BR= Bruning
B3= British Standard 318C
B4= British Standard 4800
C= Le Chromograf (Pourpre) generated
CA= Colortrend Ambience
CD= CorelDraw
CM=(old) colors mapped to NBS/ISCC centroids
CN= Colortrend Nuance
CO= Coronado
CR= Crayola (Binney&Smith)
DA= Chroma Dictionnaire Alphabetique (Pourpre)
DB= Dutch Boy
DE= Dunn Edwards
DI= Chroma Dictionnaire Imaginnaire (Pourpre)
DM= DMC stranded cotton
DN= DIN Color System (DIN 6164)
ET= Eternasilk
FS= Federal Standard No. 595B, Colors used in government procurement, Rev B Chg 1 Jan 1994 613 colors
G=40 additional pure Netscape red + green + blue + gray
GK= G&K Wonder Color Gauge: 140 hues
GS= USGS Visual Palette map colors
H= Hexagonal Hues
HL= Hershey Levinson embroidery supply house colors
HP= Handprint Pigment Index / Color Wheel
I= NBS/IBCC 267 CIE XYZ hues by Mundie
IC= ICI
IM= NBS/ISCC 267 Munsell hues
JPC= J&P Coates silk
LA= Laura Ashley
M= Munsell
MA= Madeira silk
MF= Michel Farbenfuehrer / Farbenführer: 570 colors + 29 coil ends
MI= Millennium
MN= color marketing name
MS= Martin Senour
N=140 Netscape X11 named
NAU= Nautical vessel colors
P= PMS (Pantone Matching System)
PF= Portfolio
PL= Pratt Lambert
PO= Porter
PI= Darlisa's Place Pigment
PP= PPG Voice of Color
QCD=Quantum Chromodynamics quark colors by convention
R= RAL Classic
RA= Robison-Anton textile company
RC= Real Color Wheel pigments
RE= Resene(NZ)
S= SASgraph
SE= Servistar
SG= Stanley Gibbons Color Key: 200 hues
SI= SICO 4000
ST= Streetprint
SW= Sherwin Williams Color Answers, DIY(Do It Yourself)
T= twosixteen. com (216) archive
TV= True Value
U= Unsafe Colormatch generated
V=16 VGA
W= CSS
WC= Wet Canvas pigments
WSH= Websafe Colors by (24) Hue
X= X11R6 additional shades
XA= X11R6 AV Brothers Colorist
Y= NCS

abbre-
viation or nomen-
clature

Hue 0-360 degrees, Satura-
tion %, Bright-
ness / Value / Lumino-
sity % (HLS colors 50% white 100% used here as HSL)

1K = Visibone 42 hues x 25 shades + 16 grays = 1068 KiloColors
4K = 16x16x16 = 4096 rainbow colors
360 saturated hues
*=RGB entry propagated through all tables

color names starting with AQUA through AZURY

AQUA/ Blaugrün/ vert d'eau/ agua