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

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post #126

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…

I have been searching for something like this for years! Wish it wasn't Firefox-only :( What would it take to get it ported to a better browser? 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

> What would it take to get it ported to a better browser?

If I were the dev and heard that kind of attitude, I would intentionally not port it.

What, exactly, was the point of being an ass there?

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

#232
post #53

I'm still working diligently on counting the grains of sand on the beach closest to me, and hopefully we can pool all of our work together for a final count. As soon as that's done I'll start trying to name all the stars. Colors? I'm tired already.

I am workingon naming a billion stars after real people name.

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

#235
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)

#BADA55 - hex for some key lime pie in the web UI

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

#237
post #9

I'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?

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