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18 sourcesI originally made this about 8 years ago just for myself: to see where the color name list I maintain had gaps: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
As I learned more about color models, I kept adding different ones over time. The perceptual models helped me understand the âmissingâ areas much better.
Later, after building an API around the list (https://github.com/meodai/color-name-api
), I started including other lists with permissive licenses too.
Appreciate all the thoughts and feedback here. Iâve also changed it so the cube stops spinning once you interact with it.
In A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colorsNo they are separate lists. "All Color Names" comes from: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
In A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colorsHere's the list of colors it works off of: https://github.com/meodai/color-names/blob/main/src/colornam...
I'm trying to figure it out.
In A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colorsBecause a) I keep adding names and b) the list weights over 1mb https://github.com/meodai/color-names
In Show HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable nameShow HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable name
I built this API to return the closest named color for any hex valueâusing curated lists like my own [1], XKCD [2], and others.
I made it from scratch without Express or any frameworks because:
- Iâm a frontend/interaction dev and wanted to learn how to build an API from the ground up.
- Existing APIs didnât guarantee unique names per colorâmine does.
- It also supports WebSocket updates, gzip responses, and multiple name sets.
Iâve been collecting color names for over 10 years [1]. With ~30,000 entries, bundling them into every color-related project became excessive. This API keeps things lightweightâfor me and hopefully for others too.
GitHub: https://github.com/meodai/color-name-api
Would love feedback on naming logic, accuracy, performance, or backend best practices I mightâve missed.
[1] Large Color Name List: https://github.com/meod
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[2] XKCD color survey results: https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/
thanks! Collecting them has been my hobby for the past few years: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
In Poline â An enigmatic color palette generator using polar coordinatesLarge list of handpicked color names
2 points ¡ Open discussionI've used this a lot actually and appreciate it exists but I have a lot of issues. First of all is how much it's used for memeing and coming up with funny sounding names for certain colors. There are also many professional color palette names. Some, like CSS named colors, are very well-represented. Others like Wikipedia's list of named colors[0] draw from various sources. Then there's others that might be historically important[1] but little known otherwise. But basically anything outside of CSS named colors, Crayola, and Pantone is completely ignored. There have been many instances where I've seen major color-naming bodies (e.g. ISCC or the Federal Standard 595C) all agree that some color name is mapped to a certain color but the users of colornames.org have just completely ignored it and come up with a new color for it. How do we name n
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ew colors without ignoring names that have already been assigned?
My second major issue is how deeply susceptible it is to cultural biases. Wikipedia handles the issue of constantly changing knowledge/culture by stating that its mission is to capture knowledge "as it currently" exists.
I'd like to see a version of the colornames scores where votes are weighed by recency. Older votes can still count, but in order to capture constantly changing/adapting culture and emerging consensuses we can maybe weigh more recent votes more heavily
Another thing I'd love to see is to just have accounts answer the question: "Which language have you spoken the most of in the past (7) years of your life?" I think this one simple data point can solve a LOOOT of the issues and captures both culture and heritage without having to differentiate between place of birth, changing life circumstances and upbringings, etc. This would also mean that people who speak Tagalog don't have to see their well-agreed-upon name for a color being overwritten by the norms of demographic majority of the userbase which skews English-speakers
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Clearly I have a lot of thoughts haha. I still love that color-names exists. One thing I'd like to build out some day is something to aggregate all the different color naming schemes out there and have colornames.org simply be a source amongst many others. Similar projects already exist[2] but none that are explicit about being attempt to aggregate sources and not BE the ultimate word on what color is named what
.. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_colors
.. [1] https://github.com/davo/Color-Standards-and-Color-Nomenclatu...
.. [2] https://github.com/meodai/color-names
Nice. Check out https://github.com/meodai/color-names for a rather large (29888!) collection of hand picked colors in case you want to expand your project.
In Show HN: A color picker for named web colorsThe color change when switching between tabs is definitely something I'm going to remove/fix soon. It didn't really bother me, but I see it now.
I also really like the color names. But I can't take credit for that, because someone else is doing all the hard work here: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
Showing them in more places might be cool, but the performance might become an issue then.
Saving settings might also be a cool feature to add. I'm gonna look into that.
Thank you!
In Show HN: hue.tools â open-source toolbox for colorsI'm using this package: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
In Show HN: hue.tools â open-source toolbox for colorsI'm using meodai/color-names (https://github.com/meodai/color-names).
Pretty awesome project.
In Show HN: hue.tools â open-source toolbox for colorsReally cool to hear that!
And the names are definitely awesome.
All the credit for that goes to: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
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