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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 so

by lol768 9y ago

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!

nsomaru 9y ago
Hmm. I've always wanted to parse colours in my head. How do you do that?
- JoshTriplett 9y ago
  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.
- dyarosla 9y ago
  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.
- LeonM 9y ago
  These CSS colors consist of 3 bytes in hex, the first gives the red value, second green and the last is blue. So: #FF0000 = 0xFF, 0x00, 0x00, which is pure red #0000FF = 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, which is pure blue #FF00FF = 0xFF, 0x00, 0xFF, which is red and blue mixed, so it's purple (violet) #FFFFFF = 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, all colors combined is white etc #C0FFEE = 0xC0, 0xFF, 0xEE, so by 'parsing' it in your head yo can see is mostly green and blue, combined that's cyan.
  - Theodores 9y ago
    Yes but you grew up typing hex codes into a home computer connected to a tape drive. You know what 8192 looks like in binary but everything beyond 65535 you struggle with because you didn't have the registers for that on your 6502A. It probably irritates you to see images scaled to 1000 pixels rather than 1024. What about that jpeg cell that is not 8 pixels square? Think of the computational overhead and the need to go floating point just because someone does not think in bytes. It is too late to tell them now, these kids ain't spending winter typing in hex. Hex to them is like BCD is to you and who needs binary coded decimal these days when emoji's need to be mastered? I don't mean you personally, just them folk that know their hex from learning to code that way. I think hex is important but it seems most front end developers would prefer not to know.
    - WrtCdEvrydy 9y ago
      > I think <INSERT_THING_HERE> is important but it seems most front end developers would prefer not to know. This is my experience. There are two types of people in this industry, people who want to make money quick and those who are technologists.
      - ovao 9y ago
        What would you guess is the ratio of each?
        WrtCdEvrydy 9y ago
        In my experience, I tend to think it's something like 30% technologists, 70% money makers. Unfortunately, barely anyone (including myself) wants to see themselves as the second group (for the record, I think I'm on the second group).
      - devdad 9y ago
        I disagree. Not wanting to learn hex does not make you less of a techie. One can only focus on so much, and tech is huge.
        9y ago
  - wruza 9y ago
    Also that it is bright and somewhat unsaturated, because its lowest component is 3/4 of full intensity.
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asmosoinio 9y ago
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.
- JoshTriplett 9y ago
  It's a little more readable if you change the 4 to an A, which doesn't significantly change the color: #5AFE57.
  - asmosoinio 9y ago
    Yes indeed, and that's what's on the site. My bad typing that on mobile... Still the 57 does not really directly translate to ST in my head at least.
- Twirrim 9y ago
  Hmm. BADA55 didn't make it on to that site, strangely enough.
  - milankragujevic 9y ago
    Color of Kerbals ;)
  - Aardwolf 9y ago
    They parsed an English dictionary. You mean the dictionary didn't contain badass? gasp :)
kngl 9y ago
there is also #F1A5C0 / FIASCO
- cestith 9y ago
  Seems like a great gamer handle. It's leetspeak, a decent name to go by on the servers, and it's a color. One could maybe theme a site in tune with one's nickname that way.
myth_buster 9y ago
Coffee beans before roasting are infact "Green"[0] and are referred as green coffee. The roasting process makes it brown.darker. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_roasting#Roasts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_roasting#Roasts
- lol768 9y ago
  That's a very good point! I can't say I've ever roasted my own coffee, so it's something I've not experienced in person. I hear you can buy green beans and roast them with a popcorn machine though, which sounds kinda fun to try.
  - cpfohl 9y ago
    It is very fun, and way tastier: https://www.sweetmarias.com/category/green-coffee/others/sample-sets# https://www.sweetmarias.com/category/green-coffee/others/sam... http://legacy.sweetmarias.com/airpop/airpopmethod.php http://legacy.sweetmarias.com/airpop/airpopmethod.php
    - cpfohl 9y ago
      To make this a bit more on-topic for HN: http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=45932 http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=45932 The above describes creating a bread-machine "Coretto" roaster. (I still have no idea why it's named that). A heat gun (for paint drying) from Harbor Freight (~$15, it's almost always on sale) is used for the heat. The bread machine is torn apart so it permanently spins, and never turns on the heating element. After using it manually a bit you'll get the bug too. Eventually you'll want to control it electronically. I still have to actually do it...
      - lol768 9y ago
        That's really cool, thanks for those links. You've given me something to look into for the next side project!
zakk 9y ago
> 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. #ACE71C is quite acetic, on the other hand.
vacri 9y ago
> With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up. Unfortunately 'secede' is blue rather than gray...
deepakb358 9y ago
check www.sevacoffee.com - start with raw green beans and roast, grind & brew every cup to make the ultimate cup of coffee.

by lol768 9y ago

nsomaru 9y ago

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

JoshTriplett 9y ago
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.
dyarosla 9y ago
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.
LeonM 9y ago
These CSS colors consist of 3 bytes in hex, the first gives the red value, second green and the last is blue. So: #FF0000 = 0xFF, 0x00, 0x00, which is pure red #0000FF = 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, which is pure blue #FF00FF = 0xFF, 0x00, 0xFF, which is red and blue mixed, so it's purple (violet) #FFFFFF = 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, all colors combined is white etc #C0FFEE = 0xC0, 0xFF, 0xEE, so by 'parsing' it in your head yo can see is mostly green and blue, combined that's cyan.
- Theodores 9y ago
  Yes but you grew up typing hex codes into a home computer connected to a tape drive. You know what 8192 looks like in binary but everything beyond 65535 you struggle with because you didn't have the registers for that on your 6502A. It probably irritates you to see images scaled to 1000 pixels rather than 1024. What about that jpeg cell that is not 8 pixels square? Think of the computational overhead and the need to go floating point just because someone does not think in bytes. It is too late to tell them now, these kids ain't spending winter typing in hex. Hex to them is like BCD is to you and who needs binary coded decimal these days when emoji's need to be mastered? I don't mean you personally, just them folk that know their hex from learning to code that way. I think hex is important but it seems most front end developers would prefer not to know.
  - WrtCdEvrydy 9y ago
    > I think <INSERT_THING_HERE> is important but it seems most front end developers would prefer not to know. This is my experience. There are two types of people in this industry, people who want to make money quick and those who are technologists.
    - ovao 9y ago
      What would you guess is the ratio of each?
      - WrtCdEvrydy 9y ago
        In my experience, I tend to think it's something like 30% technologists, 70% money makers. Unfortunately, barely anyone (including myself) wants to see themselves as the second group (for the record, I think I'm on the second group).
    - devdad 9y ago
      I disagree. Not wanting to learn hex does not make you less of a techie. One can only focus on so much, and tech is huge.
      - 9y ago
- wruza 9y ago
  Also that it is bright and somewhat unsaturated, because its lowest component is 3/4 of full intensity.
deleted 9y ago
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asmosoinio 9y ago

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.

JoshTriplett 9y ago
It's a little more readable if you change the 4 to an A, which doesn't significantly change the color: #5AFE57.
- asmosoinio 9y ago
  Yes indeed, and that's what's on the site. My bad typing that on mobile... Still the 57 does not really directly translate to ST in my head at least.
Twirrim 9y ago
Hmm. BADA55 didn't make it on to that site, strangely enough.
- milankragujevic 9y ago
  Color of Kerbals ;)
- Aardwolf 9y ago
  They parsed an English dictionary. You mean the dictionary didn't contain badass? gasp :)

kngl 9y ago

there is also #F1A5C0 / FIASCO

cestith 9y ago
Seems like a great gamer handle. It's leetspeak, a decent name to go by on the servers, and it's a color. One could maybe theme a site in tune with one's nickname that way.

myth_buster 9y ago

Coffee beans before roasting are infact "Green"[0] and are referred as green coffee. The roasting process makes it brown.darker. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_roasting#Roasts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_roasting#Roasts

lol768 9y ago
That's a very good point! I can't say I've ever roasted my own coffee, so it's something I've not experienced in person. I hear you can buy green beans and roast them with a popcorn machine though, which sounds kinda fun to try.
- cpfohl 9y ago
  It is very fun, and way tastier: https://www.sweetmarias.com/category/green-coffee/others/sample-sets# https://www.sweetmarias.com/category/green-coffee/others/sam... http://legacy.sweetmarias.com/airpop/airpopmethod.php http://legacy.sweetmarias.com/airpop/airpopmethod.php
  - cpfohl 9y ago
    To make this a bit more on-topic for HN: http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=45932 http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=45932 The above describes creating a bread-machine "Coretto" roaster. (I still have no idea why it's named that). A heat gun (for paint drying) from Harbor Freight (~$15, it's almost always on sale) is used for the heat. The bread machine is torn apart so it permanently spins, and never turns on the heating element. After using it manually a bit you'll get the bug too. Eventually you'll want to control it electronically. I still have to actually do it...
    - lol768 9y ago
      That's really cool, thanks for those links. You've given me something to look into for the next side project!

zakk 9y ago

> 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. #ACE71C is quite acetic, on the other hand.

vacri 9y ago

> With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up. Unfortunately 'secede' is blue rather than gray...

deepakb358 9y ago

check www.sevacoffee.com - start with raw green beans and roast, grind & brew every cup to make the ultimate cup of coffee.