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Making colors safe for Windows and Mac







Making colors safe for Windows and Mac

Making colors safe for Windows and Mac 08/28/2004 11:08 AM

In a curious filing dated Aug. 26, Apple has applied for a patent detailing a "Color palette providing cross-platform consistency." According to the patent’s abstract, the palette looks to work in conjunction with an existing application to "facilitate user selection of web-safe colors." The images attached to the filing show an OS-9 interface with what looks to be a Photoshop 5-type color window. Colors are eventually arranged into groups of "Non web-safe" and "Web-safe" colors for Windows and Macintosh: "In laying out the color palette, the extent of achromatic colors located within the color palette is determined. The achromatic colors are then arranged in one group on the palette, for instance in order of lightest to darkest. The non web-safe chromatic colors are then grouped together. From this grouping blends of the colors are created. Finally, the web-safe chromatic colors are grouped together. Blends with respect to the web-safe chromatic colors are created and then grouped on the color palette.” While it seems to be a relatively outdated concept (with outdated diagrams), Apple has yet to incorporate this specific technology in one of its applications.




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