Talk:Periwinkle (color)

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[edit] Color conversion and accuracy

"Hex triplet = #CCCCFF
RGB (r, g, b) = (195, 205, 230)"

If you change the RGB into Hex triplet, you get #C3CDE6.
If you change the Hex triplet into RGB, you get (204, 204, 255). Daniel 21:57, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Not only that, but all of those systems depend on a color profile -- a given RGB number will give different colors for different monitors. We'd need to know something better, ideally a Lab color number. --Keybounce 22:03, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] incorrect date

the OED lists a use of periwinkle as a color from 1852 (Harper's) and another from 1902 (Western Gazette), one referring to the color of cloth and the other to the color of the sea. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.250.112 (talk) 20:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)