Talk:Aqua (color)

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[edit] Aqua and Cyan

Is anyone sure aqua and cyan are agreed completely by all Internet sites that match RGB coordinates with names?? (See the discussion at Talk:Magenta and Talk:Fuchsia (color) for something to compare with. Georgia guy 00:11, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

The CSS 2.1 Specification uses aqua as the primary name for #00FFFF. As far as I know, aquamarine is the full, common name for real-world uses. Besides, it's not "sites" that have to agree on the names, it's the W3C and web browser developers. And so they did. Matveims 05:40, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Now, if aqua and aquamarine are synonyms, then this should probably be a re-direct to Aquamarine (color). Any reason to disagree please explain. Is there one?? Georgia guy 14:39, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Of course there is a reason. Aquamarine is  #7FFFD4 , and Aqua is  #00FFFF  (same as Cyan). However, there are separate pages for aqua and cyan, since one is a web color, and the other is not. Before, aqua in Template:Web_colors linked to aquamarine, which was incorrect. Besides, if you "left Wikipeda on June 29, 2005", why are you still so enthused about editing? ;) Matveims 04:46, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I left Wikipedia, but then, for some reason based on changes in my mind, I decided to return. But why is it incorrect to equate aqua and aquamarine?? I thought aqua as a color term was just a short form of aquamarine. Georgia guy 00:09, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

As I already mentioned, aqua may be just an abbreviation for  aquamarine  in general "offline" use, but in computer graphics, especially web design, it stands for a rather  different  color. Linking aqua to aquamarine (or to cyan) will make Template:Web_colors inaccurate. So, why not to keep it as it is? Matveims 04:28, 20 December 2005 (UTC)