I was prepping to start a thread “How fine-grained do we need background color tags?” and came upon this one during due-diligence.
Background color tags that already imply simple background (suffix “ background” omitted for brevity):
transparent (224560),
white (111193),
gray (8600),
black (6341)
red (1089),
pink (3727),
orange (981),
yellow (1760),
green (2816),
teal (202),
light blue (42),
blue (6217),
purple (3692)
brown (897),
tan (398)
…I wonder whether light blue background should imply blue background or be aliased into it…?
Then, these are colors with background tags without “simple background” implied:
violet (98,
82 of which are from one source),
lavender (34),
lilac (10),
light purple (2)
These all seem like they could be condensed into 1 color, or altogether aliased into
purple background (after review; a few
might be “pink”, and some are not in fact “simple” and instead should be eg.
gradient background)
magenta (20)
This one stands out to me as actually distinct from either pink or purple, which magenta is between. However, since again some of them aren’t properly a “simple background” and instead should be “gradient” or “abstract”, the image count would go even lower, so is it even warranted?
coral (3)
So few have it and I’d vote to retag them “pink”.
dark pink (3)
So few have it and I’d call them all “purple” or “magenta” (depending on existence of “magenta” tag). Alias, or just retag since there are so few.
cyan (41)
IMO, close enough to
teal (202) to alias.
beige (48)
Oof, it looks pretty inconsistently used, to my eyes. I’d retag each as “tan”, “brown”, “orange”, “yellow”, “pink”, and “purple” (or an aforementioned lighter counterpart) as appropriate, leaving nothing with “beige”.
cream (24)
Like tan or yellow, but lighter. Not sure if this one should stay? Even if a tag like
light background started to be used, it’d be kind of hard to tell which color to tag as the base, in each case. It could be replaced with a different tag named something like “off-white background” to be even more inclusive.
colored background (172) - I’m not sure if anything should be done with this tag. It seems like it’s used to mean “not a transparent/white/gray/black/grayscale background” and may or may not be simple, gradient, abstract, or even detailed.
