Wikipedia:How to read a color infobox

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Red
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h
)		(53, 179, 12°)
SourceGiven source(s)
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Some shades of Red
Darker red 
Reddish orange 
Purplish red 

The infobox with the name {{Infobox color}} is a table found on Wikipedia articles setting out information about a named color – an example can be found on the right.

The pieces of the infobox include:

  1. At the top of the infobox is the common name of the color.
  2. Below is an optional picture representing the color. For example, a collection of red objects.
  3. An optional range of frequencies and wavelengths representing a spectral color. These are only approximations as different sources will have different ranges, and people will perceive the boundaries to be at different points.
  4. Optionally set(s) of color coordinates, referring to a specific color.
    HSV color space: The HSV space is a transformation from RGB space. As a transformation of RGB values, HSV values share the same limitation.
    Source
    : The source of the standard defining the color coordinates.
  5. Examples of other variations ("shades") of that color.

It must be noted that a range of color-variations is commonly associated with every color-name – however, only one specific variation is shown in detail: E.g. in the example only one tone of red (#FF0000) is shown in detail, while several variations of red can be found at the end of the infobox.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Extensive information on color coordinates can be found here.
  2. ^ However some specific colors fall outside of some color spaces and standards, and can therefore not be represented in that color space – e.g. many bright/luminous colors can not be represented in CMYK for printing.
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