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Re: #c0ffee is the color

#11
post #3

Got to admit I was hoping it'd be a coffee-ish colour before I sorta parsed the colour in my head and realised it was mostly green. With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up. Can't say I can think of many hugely practical uses for this, but it's kinda neat!

Hmm. I've always wanted to parse colours in my head.

How do you do that?

Re: #c0ffee is the color

#14
Nice.

One oddity: for some reason, the site's CSS makes text selection highlights invisible. If you select text, the selection looks identical to unselected text, though copy/paste still works.

Also, the color boxes appear to be editable text areas: if you click on one, you can backspace or Ctrl-U and the text of the color vanishes, until you hover/unhover it again and the text gets reset (because of the 1337/LEET translation going on with hover/unhover).

Re: #c0ffee is the color

#15
post #11
post #3

Got to admit I was hoping it'd be a coffee-ish colour before I sorta parsed the colour in my head and realised it was mostly green. With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up. Can't say I can think of many hugely practical uses for this, but it's kinda neat!

Hmm. I've always wanted to parse colours in my head. How do you do that?

Hex colors are RRGGBB; if you look at C0FFEE, you can see that it's all-green, almost-all-blue, and significantly less red. So it's going to be a near-white color that's green/blue.

Re: #c0ffee is the color

#16
post #3

Got to admit I was hoping it'd be a coffee-ish colour before I sorta parsed the colour in my head and realised it was mostly green. With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up. Can't say I can think of many hugely practical uses for this, but it's kinda neat!

I also plan to use 54FE57 somewhere. Have to do that.

Though with the numbers in the beginning it's not as readable as e.g. BADA55.

Re: #c0ffee is the color

#19
post #3

Got to admit I was hoping it'd be a coffee-ish colour before I sorta parsed the colour in my head and realised it was mostly green. With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up. Can't say I can think of many hugely practical uses for this, but it's kinda neat!

I also plan to use 54FE57 somewhere. Have to do that. Though with the numbers in the beginning it's not as readable as e.g. BADA55.

It's a little more readable if you change the 4 to an A, which doesn't significantly change the color: #5AFE57.

Re: #c0ffee is the color

#20
post #11
post #3

Got to admit I was hoping it'd be a coffee-ish colour before I sorta parsed the colour in my head and realised it was mostly green. With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up. Can't say I can think of many hugely practical uses for this, but it's kinda neat!

Hmm. I've always wanted to parse colours in my head. How do you do that?

You would recognize how 00 through FF indicates more/less presence of each of rgb for every two characters, and combine from there. IE ff0000 would mean fully red no green no blue. It takes some practice to remember how the different combinations add up.
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