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Desktop Env. · 1998 · Open Source

KDE 1

When I first installed KDE, it felt like a new generation of Linux Desktops. It just looked so modern! In many screenshots, you can see that KDE was often used with the preconfigured gradient background. The colors for Desktop 1 and 2 were actually different. I included all gradient colors below, eventhough they're not strictly used as a solid color background. However, KDE 1.0 had also one hardcoded solid default background color. A pretty cool steel blue, which felt like the perfect companion to the grey desktop bar and the orange accented icons. All other colors stem from the default color picker (including the top color in the desktop 1 gradient).

LaterKDE 2
Preview#4682b4
All colors21 · click to preview
Steel Blue
#4682b4
Red
#ff0000
Green
#00ff00
Blue
#0000ff
Cyan
#00ffff
Magenta
#ff00ff
Yellow
#ffff00
Dark Red
#800000
Dark Green
#008000
Navy
#000080
Teal
#008080
Purple
#800080
Olive
#808000
White
#ffffff
Silver
#c0c0c0
Medium Gray
#a0a0a4
Gray
#808080
Black
#000000
Bright Blue
#0004ff
Bright Teal
#00bfaf
Teal
#008080
Steel BlueDEFAULT
KNOWN USES1 palette
Only in this palette so far.
COLOR VALUES · CLICK TO COPY
HEX#4682b4Copy
RGB70, 130, 180Copy
HSL207° 44% 49%Copy
CMYK61% 28% 0% 29%Copy
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91% match
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Cerulean
#0080c0
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Cornflower Blue
#6688bb
85% match
Redmond Blue
#3a6ea5
84% match
Deep Azure
#1e72a0
83% match
Storm Gray
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