MNmncharity·Apr 28, 2026
The xkcd color survey[1] was 16 years ago now. With the data available, there were various follow-ups. Many, including xkcd's own "take it for fun here" link there in [1], are now 404. But the strata[2] and word cloud[3] are still up, and relevant here.
The data remains available. It was a TidyTuesday ("social data project") for 2025-07-08.[4] This response[5] looked at TFA. (This week's TT is ag tariffs.[9])
I just did a quick and sloppy search, so there's likely more out there. Curiously, I found AIMode and Bing/chat less immediately helpful than I'd have guessed.
Years ago I used the xkcd data for a prototype web interactive for kids, which shader filtered video to selected colors... but it was overlapping rather than a partition, and I'd never leave out cyan. Hmm, maybe a vibe coding target.
[1] https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-
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[2] https://www.datapointed.net/2010/06/xkcd-color-name-strata/
[3] https://luminoso.com/the-color-cloud-an-interactive-visualiz...
[4] https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/main/dat...
[5] https://jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2025/07/2025-07-09_col...
Off topic: [9] https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/main/dat...