See Jeff Heer's work on this: http://vis.stanford.edu/color-names/
and the color-name picker application: http://vis.stanford.edu/color-names/dictionary/
D3 - Languages and Color
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#12The ways humans stratify a small part of the RF spectrum into named colors is a topic that keeps popping up. What does it tell us?
That languages we speak have an impact on how we group and categorise things?
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#13What's the deal with the "English translation" for English? Sometimes it's just the English name with adjectives removed, but other times it adds different adjectives, or changes the name completely.
We should've been more clear on that - the English translation is the shortest string length submission we received for that color, while the color name (for English) is the longest (we figured the longest submission would be the most interesting). We only had two different submissions for English, for all other languages we put native language and the English translation. There are some hidden gems in there one cont…
I found one brownish dot in the "red" sector whose English name was "Milk Chocolate" and whose English translation was "Peru".
Re: D3 - Languages and Color
#14The bottom color is "Free Speech Green" in Chinese
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#15What has changed since this was posted?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3988556
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#16The bottom color is "Free Speech Green" in Chinese
Nice catch! We thought that was quite the color name.