#c0ffee is the color • Hacker News Board

Re: #c0ffee is the color

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Post by cestith » Mon, Jun 12, 2017, 4:42 PM UTC

kngl wrote: post #33

lol768 wrote: post #3

Got to admit I was hoping it'd be a coffee-ish colour before I sorta parsed the colour in my head and realised it was mostly green. With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up. Can't say I can think of many hugely practical uses for this, but it's kinda neat!

there is also #F1A5C0 / FIASCO

Seems like a great gamer handle. It's leetspeak, a decent name to go by on the servers, and it's a color. One could maybe theme a site in tune with one's nickname that way.

Re: #c0ffee is the color

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Post by vmarquet » Mon, Jun 12, 2017, 4:43 PM UTC

I'm surprised no one yet has mentionned the famous stack overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th....

TLDR; For legacy reasons, some words produce valid colors even if they don't respect the standard color formats. For example, "chucknorris" produces red.

Re: #c0ffee is the color

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Post by ajacksified » Mon, Jun 12, 2017, 4:43 PM UTC

Nice - I built something similar a few years ago, mostly to mess around with CSS columns (http://thejacklawson.com/csswords/). I only used a regex over the system dictionary, so it doesn't include a lot of what it probably could.

Re: #c0ffee is the color

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Post by styfle » Mon, Jun 12, 2017, 4:48 PM UTC

thebouv wrote: post #27

Since #BADA55 keeps coming up: http://bada55.io/

:+1: This site is better than the OP because it has a voting system

Re: #c0ffee is the color

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Post by sr2 » Mon, Jun 12, 2017, 5:01 PM UTC

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #53

sr2 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surge is not notable enough to be on that list. I think it only applies to institutions, museums, and things like that. Judging from this anyways: https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat

You didn't read through far enough (or, more likely, you didn't ctrl-F well enough). After the "ICANN DOMAINS" section is the "PRIVATE DOMAINS" section. It contains entries like: - s3.amazonaws.com - blogspot.com - githubusercontent.com but there are many other sites in the list which are less notable.

Oh okay thanks for clarifying.

Re: #c0ffee is the color

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 12, 2017, 5:05 PM UTC

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Re: #c0ffee is the color

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Post by vegbrasil » Mon, Jun 12, 2017, 5:05 PM UTC

Maybe this could be open source? I wish to generate HEX colors using my non-english language.

Re: #c0ffee is the color

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Post by lol768 » Mon, Jun 12, 2017, 5:08 PM UTC

myth_buster wrote: post #48

lol768 wrote: post #3

Got to admit I was hoping it'd be a coffee-ish colour before I sorta parsed the colour in my head and realised it was mostly green. With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up. Can't say I can think of many hugely practical uses for this, but it's kinda neat!

Coffee beans before roasting are infact "Green"[0] and are referred as green coffee. The roasting process makes it brown.darker. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_roasting#Roasts

That's a very good point! I can't say I've ever roasted my own coffee, so it's something I've not experienced in person. I hear you can buy green beans and roast them with a popcorn machine though, which sounds kinda fun to try.

Re: #c0ffee is the color

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Post by pacaro » Mon, Jun 12, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

vegbrasil wrote: post #67

Maybe this could be open source? I wish to generate HEX colors using my non-english language.

Implementing this to run on an arbitrary dictionary would be a cute interview question

Re: #c0ffee is the color

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Post by adolph » Mon, Jun 12, 2017, 5:36 PM UTC

The yellow fiesta is similar to the yellow tone of the dishes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_(dinnerware)