Comment by zahlman
14 hours ago
> The colors use traditional bicycle brown (#8B4513) and a classic blue for the pelican (#4169E1) with gold accents for the beak (#FFD700).
The output pelican is indeed blue. I can't fathom where the idea that this is "classic", or suitable for a pelican, could have come from.
My guess would be that it doesn't see the web colors (CSS color hexes) as proper hex triplets, but because of tokenization it could be something dumb like '#8B','451','3' instead. I think the same issue happens around multiple special characters after each other too.
No, it's understanding the colors properly. The SVG that the LLM created does use #4169E1 for the pelican color, and the LLM correctly describes this color as blue. The problem is that pelicans should not be blue.
Qwen3, at least, tokenizes each character of "#8B4513" separately.