Talk:Mahogany (color)

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This article was nominated for deletion on 12 June 2005. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] Standard mahogany color

I found various possible definitions at [1] which appears to be about embroidery thread:

Mahogany-VY LT	255 190 164	#FFBEA4
Mahogony-LT	221 109 91	#DD6D5B
Mahogany-MD	209 102 84	#D16654
Mahogany-DK	157 60 39	#9D3C27
Mahogany-VY DK	143 57 38	#8F3926

Oddly enough none of them are displaying in my browser :-( I found another one here, and corrected my bad syntax for the template:

Mahogany	192 64 0	#C04000

--Phil | Talk 16:47, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

To whoever sees the above question, here is the response:

If you mix a color with white, it is called a tint. If you mix a color with black, it is called a shade. Among the colors above, the tints of the color are on top and the shades are towards the bottom. All of the articles red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet have the variant that is neither a tint nor a shade, and so I say this article should follow the same rule. Any objections?? Georgia guy 16:53, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

No objections, but I can't figure out which one you are saying we should use :-) I'm assuming that last stand-alone, which seems more to do with the actual colour as opposed to various types of thread. --Phil | Talk 07:43, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:ENGVAR

This article was moved to "colour" back in December, but the body of the text was not adapted. I moved it back to U.S. spelling since the article was originally written in that variation. Instead of changing the spelling in the article, which I would have done had the article not been originally written in an accepted variant, I just moved it back. --Stomme (talk) 21:59, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree that the original move was improper and that moving it back was the correct action. VMS Mosaic (talk) 22:04, 14 May 2008 (UTC)