On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 Stephan Hennig submitted the
mpcolornames
package.
Summary description: color names for MetaPost License type: lppl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The MetaPost format plain.mp provides only five built-in color names (variables), all defined in the RGB model: red, green and blue for the primary colors and black and white. The mpcolornames package makes more than 500 color names from different color sets in different color models available to MetaPost. Color sets include X11, SVG, DVIPS and xcolor specifications.
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This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/mpcolornames . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mpcolornames (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf