Bug 159963 – Support PANTONE Color Names in CSS color properties

• Component: CSS
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Alexander Cohen]

The PANTONE Color Standard is widely known as the way to specify color for print. The use of the standard is starting to extend past print and could easily be integrated into web workflows.

This enhancement would simply add PANTONE Color names to the list of possible html color names that can be used in a web page ( and defined in CSS ).

There does not appear to be a standard for how html color names are formatted except for being case-insensitive, so we propose to use the full PANTONE number and color guide indicator, remove any spaces or dashes.

Example:
Actual PANTONE Color Name: PANTONE 101 C
Web PANTONE Color Name: 101c

[Alexander Cohen]

After further trials, a better naming convention for the PANTONE html names could be the following:

- Start every name with a 'p' to represent PANTONE. This also let's the CSSParser not recognize names such as '101c' as HEX values.
- Continue with the PANTONE number removing any dashes and spaces.
- End with the color guide marker.

Example:
Actual PANTONE Color Name: PANTONE 101 C
Web PANTONE Color Name: p101c

[Alexander Cohen]

Created attachment 284139 [details]
Patch

[Alexander Cohen]

Created attachment 284140 [details]
HTML Page displaying all PANTONE Colors as HEX and PANTONE Names.

[Alexander Cohen]

Created attachment 284145 [details]
Patch

[Sam Weinig]

Is this in support of a specific CSS specification?

[Alexander Cohen]

It's not. It's possible that I misclassified the enhancement.

The goal is to fulfill a growing need of web designers ( and brands more specifically ) to specify web color using something more than rgb.

An interesting example would be Coke. Their "brand" red is specified as PANTONE. They do this in order to achieve color correctness independent of where the color is output ( every coke can you see is the same red even though they were most likely not printed by the same printer ). The same could be achieved on the web by extending the "html color names" to also contain PANTONE names. Coke could easily specify their red color on their website using the same named color they use for anything else and thus achieve high brand color fidelity on the web.

[Simon Fraser (smfr)]

Comment on attachment 284145 [details]
Patch

This needs to go through the CSS standardization process before we can accept this patch.

[Alexander Cohen]

Already on it. Thank you.

[Brent Fulgham]

Does anyone know if standardization was completed here?

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/97042230>

[Simon Fraser (smfr)]

I'm not aware of any.

[Anne van Kesteren]

Happy to revisit this if it gets standardized somehow.