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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

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Color Name, NETSCAPE NAME, SAS NAME, HIGHLIGHTED NAME in color name table, translations in color name table headings when available, (!)=confirmed calculation or value

A= NBS/ISCC Source(A): American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, Socoety of Dyers and Colourists
AM= Ameron(NZ)
AN= Anchor silk
AS= AsiaPaints: 1200 shades
B=6x6x6= 216 Browser Safe VACCC: 60 hues
BIO= NBS/ISCC Source(B): Colour Terminology in Biology, H.A.Dade
BE= Behr
BF= Briefmarken finder (Stamp Finder)
BI= Bottles and Insulators
BM= Benjamin Moore
BR= Bruning
B3= British Standard 318C
B4= British Standard 4800
C= Le Chromograf (Pourpre) generated
CA= Colortrend Ambience
CD= CorelDraw
CIL= CIL(Canada)
CM=(old) colors mapped to NBS/ISCC centroids
CN= Colortrend Nuance
CO= Coronado
CR= Crayola (Binney&Smith)
CYW= Color Your World
D= Disney by Behr 160 colors
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
F= Foster named color
FS= NBS/ISCC Source(F): Federal Standard No. 595B, Colors used in government procurement, Rev B Chg 1 Jan 1994 613 colors, with generic paint 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
HO= NBS/ISCC Source(H): Horticultural Colour Charts, R.F.Wilson
HP= Handprint Pigment Index / Color Wheel
I= NBS/IBCC 267 CIE XYZ Mac 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
MFP= Martha's (Stewart) Fine Paints (Europe)
MI= Millennium 1488 colors
MN= color marketing name, Color Marketing Group, CMG
MP= NBS/ISCC Source(M): Maerz and Paul, A Color Dictionary, 2nd ed (1950) with year and plate, 1st ed was 1930
MPA= A Color Dictionary source: Animal Dye
MPB= A Color Dictionary source: British ready-mixed paint
MPC= A Color Dictionary source: Ceramics
MPF= A Color Dictionary source: Funk & Wagnalls' New Standard Dictionary
MPH= A Color Dictionary source: heraldry
MPM= A Color Dictionary source: American ready-mixed paint
MPO= A Color Dictionary source: Oberthür & Dauthenay's "Repertoire de Coleurs," (1905)
MPP= A Color Dictionary source: artist and structural pigments
MP-RI= A Color Dictionary source: with Ridgway as separate entry
MPT= A Color Dictionary source: textile industry
MPV= A Color Dictionary source: vegetable dye
MS= Martin Senour
MSL= Martha Stewart Living
MUP= NBS/ISCC Source(MUP): Commercial Standard CS147-47 Molded Urea Plastics
N=140 Netscape X11 named
NAU= Nautical vessel colors
NRC= NBS/ISCC Source(RC): National Research Council, Rock-Color Chart
P= PMS (Pantone Matching System)
PF= Portfolio
PL= Pratt Lambert
PLO= NBS/ISCC Source(P): Plochere 26 hues, 1456 colors
PO= Porter
PI= Darlisa's Place Pigment
PP= PPG
PSP= NBS/ISCC Source(PSP): Commercial Standard CS156-49 Polystyrene Plastics
QCD=Quantum Chromodynamics quark colors by convention
R= RAL Classic
RA= Robison-Anton textile company
RC= Real Color Wheel pigments
RE= Resene(NZ) 1322 colors
RI= NBS/ISCC Source(R): Ridgway, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature (1912)
RL= Ralph Lauren
S= SASgraph
SB= NBS/ISCC Source(S): Postage Stamp Color Names, William H. Beck
SC= NBS/ISCC Source(SC): U.S. Dept of Agriculture Soil Charts
SCS= Safe Colour Samples
SE= Servistar
SG= Stanley Gibbons Color Key: 200 hues
SI= SICO 4000
ST= Streetprint
SW= Sherwin Williams
T= twosixteen. com (216) archive
TC= NBS/ISCC Source(TC): Textile Color Card Association, Standard Color Card of America, U.S. Army Color Card
TKG= NBS/ISCC Source(T): Taylor, Knoche, Granville Descriptive Color Names Dictionary
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

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

NOTES
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

Table: hexadecimal AD0000 to ADFFFF

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