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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

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Post by rohan1024 »

applecrazy wrote: post #50

Added "Hacker News Orange" to the list: https://colornames.org/color/ff6500 I'm struggling to figure out if this is a serious attempt, though.

HN should allow changing of color of top bar via a get parameter. It would be awesome.

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Post by drdeca »

333c wrote: post #43
baddox wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By induction, doesn’t that mean we would only have one color name?

"can't tell apart" isn't a transitive relation. That is, just because I can't tell A from B and I can't tell B from C doesn't mean I can't tell A from C.

“Has the same name as”, however, is a transitive relation.

So, if no two indistinguishable colors have distinct names, and for every pair of colors have a path between them of colors such that adjacent colors in the path are indistinguishable, then all colors would have the same name.

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Post by applecrazy »

rohan1024 wrote: post #61
applecrazy wrote: post #50

Added "Hacker News Orange" to the list: https://colornames.org/color/ff6500 I'm struggling to figure out if this is a serious attempt, though.

HN should allow changing of color of top bar via a get parameter. It would be awesome.

You can change it in your profile settings (though that’s not exactly what you’re asking for). I think there’s a karma threshold, though.

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Post by heleninboodler »

picdit wrote: post #3

A 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/ ;)

I have a handful I'd nominate as "lazy programmer" colors that I think are useful as placeholders but aren't as horrid as #FF00FF etc:

  blue   #aabbdd
  green  #aaddbb
  purple #bbaadd
  pink   #ddaabb
  orange #ddbbaa
(I usually end up using #bbddaa as well but it's just a different shade of green)

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Post by zuppy »

applecrazy wrote: post #50

Added "Hacker News Orange" to the list: https://colornames.org/color/ff6500 I'm struggling to figure out if this is a serious attempt, though.

I honestly doubt, considering https://colornames.org/color/31df4e is called "Tyrannosaurus Ur Ex"

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Post by asciimike »

applecrazy wrote: post #63
rohan1024 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN should allow changing of color of top bar via a get parameter. It would be awesome.

You can change it in your profile settings (though that’s not exactly what you’re asking for). I think there’s a karma threshold, though.

I believe it's 256
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