The builtin System.Drawing.Color namespace already contains much of what you have in regards to colors to and from names. There are a lot of helpful methods av

The builtin System.Drawing.Color namespace already contains much of what you have in regards to colors to and from names. There are a lot of helpful methods available. Color foo = Color.FromArgb(int); int foo = Color.ToArgb(); Color foo = Color.FromName("CornflowerBlue"); Color itself also exposes .IsKnownColor and .IsNamedColor