My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

    crap #c0a000

    watermelon #a00e00

    plant #00a000

    sonic #0000c0

    jade #0ade00

    bloodily #b00d00

    grass #00a000

    midnight #0d00000

Has anyone created a more comprehensive list of such (unexpected) color words for English and other languages?

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by patrulek » Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 5:48 AM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #2

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Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by ilaksh » Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 5:53 AM UTC

This doesn't work with CSS, right? Only the color attribute of HTML.

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by inopinatus » Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 5:53 AM UTC

My favourite outcome is that 'chocolate' is reduced to '#c0c0a0'

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by esperent » Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 5:55 AM UTC

The included codepen is unreadable on mobile until you remove -webkit-text-stroke from them CSS.

At the initial value of 0.5rem it gives a quite cool effect, as if the text has been badly redacted with a white highlighter. I initially thought that was intentional.

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by esperent » Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 5:56 AM UTC

ilaksh wrote: post #7

This doesn't work with CSS, right? Only the color attribute of HTML.

Yeah it addresses that towards the end of the article. CSS has different rules for parsing badly formatted colors. Unsurprising given that CSS colors can be in several different formats (hex, RGB, RGBA, HCL etc.).