Bug 436013

Right, I didn't think about updating this wiki page when I updated the images for advanced colors, as I simply didn't know about this page at that time.

And as I changed several colors, I will look at updating the page soon.

About the colors used, when I updated the images I took cross-references from several sources for each color, focusing more on actual paint/real life colors (I tried to not take reference on the "named colors" like found in html for example, as they are often very different/a bit "wrong" compared to the real-life equivalents)... 
For each color name we can find different variations depending on the source...  And so I took care for each name to select a variation that can be recognized from the other colors we have in the list.

Oh, I mis-remembered, I actually did update the wiki page when I changed the colors, but looks like I did mistyped this one... I'm double-checking all of them in the wiki now.

Yes, the HTML colour names are terrible, and often don’t reflect the colours the colour names usually refer to. Still, the colour used for ‘amber’ in GCompris can hardly be called amber. Both the colour and the natural material is orangish, but the GCompris colour is not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_(color)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber

I've finished double-checking all the list on the wiki, looks like it was the only mistake, which is now fixed (so I'm closing the bug report).

I'm not sure why you feel the color is not "orangish", here #FFA943 looks quite orangish... In HSL values the hue (23) is somewhere between red and yellow, closer to yellow compared to what I would call exactly orange, which fits exactly the definition of "as a color amber can refer to a range of yellow-orange colors". 

https://pasteall.org/pic/0311837425774982b697af0b025ecae9

(In reply to animtim from comment #4)
> I'm not sure why you feel the color is not "orangish", here #FFA943 looks
> quite orangish... In HSL values the hue (23) is somewhere between red and
> yellow, closer to yellow compared to what I would call exactly orange, which
> fits exactly the definition of "as a color amber can refer to a range of
> yellow-orange colors".

Sorry, I wasn’t very precise. I agree that the GCompris colour is orangish, i.e. somewhere between yellow and red. But it’s a light/pale orange, more like a shade of apricot (though I don’t think apricot is the best name either). Amber is *usually* taken to be a vivid, bright colour, just like the natural material amber.

I don’t object to the colour being used in GCompris, just to the naming. I think it will be confusing for kids using GCompris that ‘amber’ refers to a colour very different from the colour people *normally* think of as amber. For example, in the UK, the middle colour in traffic lights is referred to as amber. But the colour is obviously very different from the the colour in GCompris.

Ok, thank you for the precision.
I've now changed the color to #FF8901, which is the same hue but more saturated/vivid.

I hope the change resolves the issue for you.

Here is a comparison showing before (on the left) and after (on the right):
https://pasteall.org/pic/faa79b2fc6d148a98eac1bf14eafa360

(In reply to animtim from comment #6)
> Ok, thank you for the precision.
> I've now changed the color to #FF8901, which is the same hue but more
> saturated/vivid.
> 
> I hope the change resolves the issue for you.
> 
> Here is a comparison showing before (on the left) and after (on the right):
> https://pasteall.org/pic/faa79b2fc6d148a98eac1bf14eafa360

Sorry for the late reply. Yes, that’s much better. Amber is often thought to be more on the yellow side, but I think it’s acceptable. (Though a more appropriate colour name might be ‘tangerine’.)