Open Crissov opened 7 years ago
Inkscape uses Gimp's "GPL" format for color palettes. Although it's somewhat limited, its limitations (no predefinable gradients etc.) don't affect us because we use flat colors only anyway.
.gpl files are just text files that are humanly readable, so they can serve as documentation for anybody who uses another graphics application.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Custom-Color-Palette-in-Inkscape http://goinkscape.com/custom-color-palettes-in-inkscape/
I have made a .gpl of all colors used in Emojione 2.2, will push soon: https://github.com/EmojiTwo/emojitwo/blob/master/other/palettes/Emojione.gpl
My work in progress to simplify generating a 256-colors palette from that: https://gist.github.com/Crissov/00c69fb3010305f65fc8bfd2d54939c4
@Crissov Some of your colors are very similar, e. g.
{"r": 231, "g": 232, "b": 144},
{"r": 231, "g": 232, "b": 145},
Wouldn't it be enough to have 64 colors to allow a 6 bit pallette?
Emojione 2.2 used more than 1100 different colors within its SVG files. Many of them either cannot be discerned visually or are only used in flags. We should streamline the palette, ideally to less than 256 entries.
Which palette/swatch file format do people prefer?