Outlook 2011 category colors - Windows Color Palette?
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29-04-2021 - |
Question
Does anybody know what are the RGB "equivalents" of the category colors that MS uses in the Windows version of Oulook 2010?
Just starting to use a Mac "for real work" (vs tinkering with it as a set-top player in the past). I'm setting up my Mac Outlook/Office environment "just so" and one of the things I'm missing is to be able to construct the same categories and associated colors that I have been using on Windows.
I've been mucking around, and I already have the proper list of categories loaded, but I can't figure out what are the equivalent to the MS-provided colors. The Apple-supplied palette is to "bright" for my taste. I've seen that it's possible to create new colors/palettes (while in the Windows version it's not - that's an improvement IMO), but I haven't been able to find the RGB specs of the colors themselves...
Thanks!
EDIT: To clarify, the "colors" I'm looking for are the ones you get in Outlook 2010.
I've got a screenshot of the ones I mean:
They have names such as "Olive", "Blue", "Dark Red", "Dark Maroon"....
Solution
Using /Applications/Utilities/DigitalColor Meter.app
set to RGB as Actual Value, 8-bit
and then hover over each color to find it's RGB color values.
Color Values:
## COLOR HEX (RRR GGG BBB)
1 Red #E7A1A2 (231 161 162)
2 Orange #F9BA89 (249 186 137)
3 Peach #F7DD8F (247 221 143)
4 Yellow #FCFA90 (252 250 144)
5 Green #78D168 (120 209 104)
6 Teal #9FDCC9 (159 220 201)
7 Olive #C6D2B0 (198 210 176)
8 Blue #9DB7E8 (157 183 232)
9 Purple #B5A1E2 (181 161 226)
10 Maroon #daaec2 (218 174 194)
11 Steel #dad9dc (218 217 220)
12 Dark Steel #6b7994 (107 121 148)
13 Grey #bfbfbf (191 191 191)
14 Dark Grey #6f6f6f (111 111 111)
15 Black #4f4f4f ( 79 79 79)
16 Dark Red #c11a25 (193 26 37)
17 Dark Orange #e2620d (226 98 13)
18 Dark Peach #c79930 (199 153 48)
19 Dark Yellow #b9b300 (185 179 0)
20 Dark Green #368f2b ( 54 143 43)
21 Dark Teal #329b7a ( 50 155 122)
22 Dark Olive #778b45 (119 139 69)
23 Dark Blue #2858a5 ( 40 88 165)
24 Dark Purple #5c3fa3 ( 92 63 163)
25 Dark Maroon #93446b (147 68 107)
Note: color values returned by color meter might be slightly different based on the selected color profile.
Make a custom color and use the RGB Sliders and enter the decimal values above.
OTHER TIPS
Microsoft provides this mapping of color name to RGB value:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee203806(v=exchg.80).aspx
Using the link provided by @The Face of Bo above (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee203806%28v=exchg.80%29.aspx), the matching RGB values for the "named" MS colors are:
Base R,G,B Color name
|--------------|------------|
255, 255,255 No color
214, 37, 46 Red
240, 108, 21 Orange
255, 202, 76 Peach
255, 254, 61 Yellow
74, 182, 63 Green
64, 189, 149 Teal
133, 154, 82 Olive
50, 103, 184 Blue
97, 61, 180 Purple
163, 78, 120 Maroon
196, 204, 221 Steel
140, 156, 189 Dark steel
196, 196, 196 Gray
165, 165, 165 Dark gray
28, 28, 28 Black
175, 30, 37 Dark red
177, 79, 13 Dark orange
171, 123, 5 Dark peach
153, 148, 0 Dark yellow
53, 121, 43 Dark green
46, 125, 100 Dark teal
95, 108, 58 Dark olive
42, 81, 145 Dark blue
80, 50, 143 Dark purple
130, 55, 95 Dark maroon
(The formatting is a bit messed up, but I can't manage to get it "nice looking" as @hoss accepted answer!)