Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
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Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
#2Very first thing I see is a rule that the names must be non offensive and the second thing I see is the color orange named after Trump.
Apparently not a very serious attempt.
Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
#3A few of my favorites so far:
Screaming Grey: #AAAAAA
It's Still Basically Black: #000001
Nice: #696969 (lol)
These would make for some great candidates: https://colors.lol/ ;)
Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
#4I'm curious—is there a point to giving two separate names to two colors which are indistinguishable from one another to the human eye?
There are zero people in the world who can tell #FF4500 from #FF4501, so aren't they effectively the same color?
Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
#5I can't see this succeeding at all. Randall Munroe tried something similar and the results weren't encouraging: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
> People are primed by the colors they saw previously, which adds overall noise and some biases to the data
and
> Moreover, monitors vary; RGB is not an absolute color space
Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
#6Maybe kind of silly like buying titles to land on the moon but I have to admit to naming a few. It’s fun.
Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
#7Very first thing I see is a rule that the names must be non offensive and the second thing I see is the color orange named after Trump. Apparently not a very serious attempt.
People don't like to admit this, but "offensive" is by definition subjective (to whom does this give offense?).
Thus, unless you're fairly explicit about who it's not okay to offend, "offensive" is at best vague and at worst weasel-wording.
Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
#8A few of my favorites so far: Screaming Grey: #AAAAAA It's Still Basically Black: #000001 Nice: #696969 (lol) These would make for some great candidates: https://colors.lol/ ;)
May be they should restrict it to 2 or 3 words without punctuation.
Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
#9I'm curious—is there a point to giving two separate names to two colors which are indistinguishable from one another to the human eye? There are zero people in the world who can tell #FF4500 from #FF4501, so aren't they effectively the same color?
By induction, doesn’t that mean we would only have one color name?
Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
#10I'm curious—is there a point to giving two separate names to two colors which are indistinguishable from one another to the human eye? There are zero people in the world who can tell #FF4500 from #FF4501, so aren't they effectively the same color?
By induction, doesn’t that mean we would only have one color name?
If there are zero people who cannot tell two colors apart, they should have the same name.
If there is at least one person who cannot tell two colors apart, they should have different names.