Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:39:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:

> Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> > ... just think that with better tools someone could now
> fix the
> > typeface . . . and can we get rid of the mauve?
> Please?
>
> Adrienne agreed to find something better than "E4B0FF",
> which
> presumably means mauve, and email it to me.  When she
> does, I'll try
> the new color on the mirror site, and ask people which
> color they
> prefer.  As you know, I have a non-graphical account, so
> colors,
> typefaces, and logos are all invisible to me.  I just see
> the text.
>
> The WSFA website, like the WSFA Journal, is a group
> effort.  The way
> I do things has certain strengths.  For instance I'm
> easily able to
> globally replace "E4B0FF" with any other six digit hex
> number in
> the 1136 places it appears on our website.  But it also
> has certain
> weaknesses.  For instance I would have no way of knowing
> what any such
> change would look like to the rest of you, unless one of
> you tells me.
>

HTML recognizes many english-language color names as well
as their hexadecimal equivalents.  For instance, in place
of color="1E90FF" you could use color="dodgerblue", or in
place of color="FAEBD7" you could use color="antiquewhite".
 Dozens of colors have such HTML-recognized names.

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Rich Lynch
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