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@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ Features
 
 3. **16/5 Palette modes**
 
-    Solarized works as a sixteen color palette for compatibility with comment
-    terminal based applications / emulators. It has been designed to scale down 
-    to a variety of five color palettes (four base monotones and one accent 
-    color) for use in design work, such as web development.
+    Solarized works as a sixteen color palette for compatibility with common
+    terminal based applications / emulators. In addition, it has been carefull 
+    designed to scale down to a variety of five color palettes (four base 
+    monotones plus one accent color) for use in design work such as web design.
 
 4.  **Personality that doesn't crowd out the room**
 
@@ -107,4 +107,27 @@ the subdirectory README files. Note that for Vim (and possibly for Mutt) you
 may want to clone the specific repository (for instance if you are using 
 Pathogen).  See the links at the top of this file.
 
+The colors
+----------
+
+SOLARIZED HEX     16/8 TERMCOL  XTERM/HEX   CIELAB     RGB         HSB
+--------- ------- ---- -------  ----------- ---------- ----------- -----------
+base03    #002a32  8/4 brblack  234 #1c1c1c 15 -12 -09   0  42  50 190 100  20
+base02    #17353d  0/4 black    235 #262626 20 -10 -09  23  53  61 193  62  24
+base01    #586e75 10/7 brgreen  240 #585858 45 -07 -07  88 110 117 194  25  46
+base00    #617c82 11/7 bryellow 241 #626262 50 -09 -07  97 124 130 191  25  51
+base0     #839496 12/6 brblue   244 #808080 60 -06 -03 131 148 150 186  13  59
+base1     #93a1a1 14/4 brcyan   245 #8a8a8a 65 -05 -02 147 161 161 180   9  63
+base2     #eee8d5  7/7 white    254 #e4e4e4 92 -00  10 238 232 213  44  11  93
+base3     #fdf6e3 15/7 brwhite  230 #ffffd7 97  00  10 253 246 227  44  10  99
+yellow    #b58900  3/3 yellow   136 #af8700 60  10  65 181 137   0  45 100  71
+orange    #c45221  9/3 brred    166 #d75f00 50  45  50 196  82  33  18  83  77
+red       #cd1e1a  1/1 red      124 #af0000 45  65  50 205  30  26   1  87  80
+magenta   #d33682  5/5 magenta  125 #af005f 50  65 -05 211  54 130 331  74  83
+violet    #6c71c4 13/5 brmagenta 61 #5f5faf 50  15 -45 108 113 196 237  45  77
+blue      #268bd2  4/4 blue      33 #0087ff 55 -10 -45  38 139 210 205  82  82
+cyan      #2aa198  6/6 cyan      37 #00afaf 60 -35 -05  42 161 152 175  74  63
+green     #859900  2/2 green     64 #5f8700 60 -20  65 133 153   0  68 100  60
+
+