Colours

[William Overington]

New out yesterday is the following document.

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21075-heart-emoji-coverage.pdf

I am not sure if this is the correct place in this forum to post about it - but I chose here as it seems to me that this is where people using colour in designs might be most likely to notice it.

For comparison, my localizable sentences research currently uses fifteen colours, and I have most, but not all, of those listed in the document, and a few more.

They are listed on page 4 of the following document.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_005.pdf

So I need to consider adding a few more.

William

 

 

[William Overington]

Looking at the Unicode document I think that I need to add light blue as a necessity.

I currently have blue as horizontal lines, and sky blue as horizontal lines with a vertical at the right.

So light blue could be horizontal lines with a vertical at the left.

I could add light green as the same as green with an added vertical at the right to complete the triangle and light magenta as the same as magenta with an added vertical at the left to complete the triangle. Gold could be done with a detached circle below the horizontal bar that is at the top. Silver could be done with a detached lozenge below the horizontal bar that is at the top. I can think further so as to have copper, bronze and brass separately. 

William

 

 

[William Overington]

Then there is turquoise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise

So if I copy the glyph for cyan and add a vertical line at the right, to complete the triangle, turquoise can be represented in that way.

So still to design are teal, aqua, royal blue and dark blue.

I am wondering how these colours tie in, if at all, with Pantone colours.

https://www.pantone.com/

Affinity Designer has Pantone colours, but I think only the print ones. Alas Pantone seems to focus support on Adobe products and it seems that the palette files may now only be accessed by subscribers to Adobe products.

Pantone colours have some for print and some for fashion and home.

Using Pantone colours in a standard might be problematic as Pantone is proprietary, though I notice that the blue used in USB 3.0 sockets in specified as a Pantone colour.

William