Color is something that people take for granted or think of as trivial but it's actually rather complicated. There are some colors that can't be represented in

Color is something that people take for granted or think of as trivial but it's actually rather complicated. There are some colors that can't be represented in print and some colors that can't be represented on a monitor. There are several different color spaces (RGB cube,  L ＊a ＊b ＊, etc.) It doesn't help that CSS3 and HTML4 color modules are terrible (the darkest octant of the sRGB cube is empty and most of the colors are too saturated or and too light). [1] [1]http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/Dictionaries#CSS3 http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/Dictionaries#CSS3 EDIT: I used full width asterisks (U+FF0A) because I wanted to write  L ＊a ＊b ＊ without inserting white space after regular asterisks (U+002A).