Why WPF Brushes.Green value is #FF008000

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Why WPF Brushes.Green value is #FF008000

Martin Zhang 21

Red is #FFFF0000, no problem. But for Green, it is not #FF0FF000, it is #FF008000, this is very strange. Can some guy give me a explaination?

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Castorix31 90,686

FF00FF00 is Lime color
See : Colors Class

Martin Zhang 21 Reputation points

2021-02-02T07:19:51.227+00:00

Wonder why html CCS make this name.
Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points

2021-02-02T07:30:45.457+00:00

There are some explanations about Green/Lime on Wikipedia at X11_color_names

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Peter Fleischer (former MVP) 19,341

Hi,
see ARGB32.

Green is #FF00FF00, not #FF0FF000 !

Martin Zhang 21 Reputation points

2021-02-02T06:41:04.81+00:00

Hi,

Sorry, #FF0FF000 is my handwriting error. I mean it should be #FF00FF00.

My question is why WPF define Brushes.Green value #FF008000, it should be #FF00FF00.

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DaisyTian-1203 11,646

Green is system-defined color that has the ARGB value of #FF008000, you can see it in Colors.Green Property. You can check it with adding System.Drawing dll to your project and using below code to get the name of it:

 Color color = ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#FF008000");  
 Color color2 = ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#FF00FF00");  
 MessageBox.Show("#FF008000 Color Name is:" + color.Name+ "\n #FF00FF00 Color Name is:" + color2.Name);

You can see the result picture:

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Martin Zhang 21 Reputation points

2021-02-02T07:18:55.54+00:00

Hi,

Thanks. But why? who name it? RGB, G means green. So, green should be 0,255,0, there are also other standards for defining this, The name of FF00FF00 should be green. This would be more reasonable.

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