colornames.org Reviews

1. Stan

   | Founder at SaaSHub | about 4 years ago
   A great idea!

   To me, it seems that colornames.org is the equivalent of wikipedia.org but for colors.

   👍 Pros:    Simple|Easy to use

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• Grayfruit Official Colors Update

  For those who haven't seen the original post, TL;DR colornames.org allows you to name all the colors of the RGB 255 spectrum. We worked to get the names of the colors that make up the grayfruit logo to be the top names for those colors. I have two updates on the situation. Source: about 1 year ago

• Why can we imagine new words, creatures, architectures, but not colors?

  How about imagining new words/names for colors? Check out this Naming Colors website. It can be fun & eye opening in terms of how different people see the same color. Source: about 1 year ago

• How does color get its name?

  There are some standard names for some hex codes which you can see a list of here. I would recommend against using any of the more distinctive colour names (e.g. Alice Blue) on this list unless refering to these exact hex codes. Otherwise call it whatever you want to within reason. There are plenty of colour lists around which you can use as inspiration. When creating a palette for a company it's very common to... Source: over 1 year ago

• Guess the colour, right answers only

  Interesting fact, there’s a website where you can name new colours. Some of the suggestions are hilarious. Source: over 1 year ago

• Show HN: A color picker for named web colors only

  In case the named web colors aren't enough, we're making excellent progress naming every color in the RGB space. https://colornames.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

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