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I believe it's 256
It’s 250. There’s also a list of all colors in use, sorted by frequency: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors
Very 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.
1. How will you deal with bots and griefers since there appears to be no login required?
2. When is a color considered named? More than X votes for the top name? Any final QA to check for profanity, trademarked terms or other malarkey?
Are all verbs blue ?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorify/
It's parsing any webpage, and coloring words based on their Part-Of-Speech tags.
The idea behind is that if we let the computer pre-parse the text for us, it should incur less mental fatigue, and help visualize the structure of sentences therefore improving our reading comprehension.
The question is how universal can we make this color-mapping ?
Up/down votes should be added to each individual color's own page, ie https://colornames.org/color/f9cdcb Edit: I added this suggestion through their used feedback service.
Shameless plug for color-loving people : Are all verbs blue ? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorify/ It's parsing any webpage, and coloring words based on their Part-Of-Speech tags. The idea behind is that if we let the computer pre-parse the text for us, it should incur less mental fatigue, and help visualize the structure of sentences therefore improving our reading comprehension. The question is…
Here's my crack at coloring or syntax-highlighting the parts of english speech for easier analysis, but mine was a manual process: https://github.com/tomhodgins/bil
As colour blind (I fall under the umbrella of Deuteranomaly) I must only celebrate this kind of efforts. I should probably know better but if I recall, up to 8-10% of male population can suffer some kind of colour blindness so it's a huge slice of population that can be benefitted from this. Cheers
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"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.
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.