Topic: Tag Alias: colorless -> monochrome

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

Ryu Deacon

Member

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colorless = linework or sketches that are not colored in, also only black linework.

monochrome = images that are composed of white and one other color or black, colored in/shaded, not just linework.

Some images overlap but these tags clearly arnt the same thing.

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Dyrone

Blocked

Definition of monochrome: a photograph or picture developed or executed in black and white or in varying tones of only one color.

That last part should be of particular interest. It doesn't mean colorless.

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Genjar

Former Staff

Like I said, non-colored, no_color and other similar tags are already aliased to monochrome.

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MyNameIsOver20charac

Member

Dyrone said:
Definition of monochrome: a photograph or picture developed or executed in black and white or in varying tones of only one color.

That last part should be of particular interest. It doesn't mean colorless.

In that case it should alias to greyscale (needs a handful of manual fixes that are actually monocrome)

Edit: I still agree with genjar though, better to be a little underspecific than to get mis-tags.

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darryus

Member

+1

Darou said:
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colorless = linework or sketches that are not colored in, also only black linework.

monochrome = images that are composed of white and one other color or black, colored in/shaded, not just linework.

Some images overlap but these tags clearly arnt the same thing.

Line_art already exists which is pretty much this already; colorless is super ambiguous in comparison.

Dyrone said:
Definition of monochrome: a photograph or picture developed or executed in black and white or in varying tones of only one color.

That last part should be of particular interest. It doesn't mean colorless.

Wouldn't something that is colorless always be monocrhome, tho? And colorless is too vague, it could mean anything from greyscale to black_and_white to probably even sepia. It's a pretty invalid tag; the only information that can be gleamed from the tag is that monochrome is applicable.
Just look at the stuff posted with the tag; you got a lot of greyscales, you got some back_and_whites, and a smattering of other monochromes

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Ryu Deacon

Member

Genjar said:
Like I said, non-colored, no_color and other similar tags are already aliased to monochrome.

Have you not considered that those aliases are probably wrong in the first place?

because monochrome certainly does not mean the absence of color in the way it is used on e621.

monochrome is one color, not no color.

darryus said:
+1
Line_art already exists which is pretty much this already; colorless is super ambiguous in comparison.

then why do you still support this OPs alias when you at the same time admit that colorless is pretty much line_art?

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Pup

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MyNameIsOver20charac said:
In that case it should alias to greyscale (needs a handful of manual fixes that are actually monocrome)

This would actually cause more mis-tagging. Greyscale is for only shades of black/grey/white, and black_and_white is for only black and white, with no greys.

But a colourless image could be either greyscale or black_and_white, and those two tags are already overlapped/mis-tagged enough..

So I'd say +1 to monochrome. As long as an image is a single colour, which includes both greyscale and black_and_white, then it's still an appropriate tag.

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