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A few of my favorites so far: Screaming Grey: #AAAAAA It's Still Basically Black: #000001 Nice: #696969 (lol) These would make for some great candidates: h
by picdit 6y ago
A few of my favorites so far:
Screaming Grey: #AAAAAA
It's Still Basically Black: #000001
Nice: #696969 (lol)
These would make for some great candidates: https://colors.lol/ https://colors.lol/ ;)
- billfruit 6y agoMay be they should restrict it to 2 or 3 words without punctuation.
- pishpash 6y agoIf it's 3 non-repeating unordered words, the minimum vocabulary will need to be 256*3 = 768. Realistically you'll need an order of magnitude larger. That's a pretty large vocabulary.
- bottled_poe 6y agoThat’s not right. 256 * 255 * 254
- _0ffh 6y agoI suspect you didn't catch gp's meaning: To get to 24 bits of color info, you'd need at least 3 words of 8 bit info each. If you want these to be non-repeating and unordered that makes 256x3=768 unique words.
- samatman 6y agoThis isn't correct though. You need 256 base words, and two substitute words, one of which substitutes for the first repeat, and the other for the second, so 258 words total.
- IanCal 6y agoThat accounts for the repeating but not the ordering, right?
- samatman 6y agoOh, by 'unordered' you mean that the three words could be in any order and still mean the same thing? Okay but that's a strange requirement. A 'big burger house' isn't a 'big house burger', after all. I had read 'unordered' as 'the collation order of the words has no connection to the ordinal rank of the underlying byte', for some reason
- IanCal 6y agoI'm just jumping in where I saw a misunderstanding :) I think that's what they mean by unordered as that makes sense with the numbers (I think). To some degree I agree, but there are also a lot of cases where different orders aren't distinguishable easily. "Light bright red" and "bright light red" is the best I can come up with quickly but I'm sure you get the idea.
- suyjuris 6y agoIt is a minor point, but 467 words would suffice, as there are 16865705 possibilities to choose 3 elements out of 467. (This is the smallest possible.)
- _0ffh 6y agoStrictly speaking, yes, if you just view it as unordered sampling without replacement. Although that would squeeze out nearly all of the creative side of things.
- reaperducer 6y agoFor a project a few years ago I labeled a color "priest socks." It was something like #000044: very very very very very very dark blue. That managed to uncover all of the Father Ted fans on the team.
- nirui 6y agoBTW, that "Nice Cyan" (#006969) is actually really nice (at least to me), I can imagine myself building a website/app with that color theme.
- qiqitori 6y agoBTW, Slashdot is #006666
- heleninboodler 6y agoI have a handful I'd nominate as "lazy programmer" colors that I think are useful as placeholders but aren't as horrid as #FF00FF etc: blue #aabbdd green #aaddbb purple #bbaadd pink #ddaabb orange #ddbbaa (I usually end up using #bbddaa as well but it's just a different shade of green)
- quickthrower2 6y agoMaybe call them Coder”s Blue etc..
- Stratoscope 6y agoAre they doing names for families of colors? Yours should be called Yabba Dabba Doo. Or perhaps Fred Flintstone.
- 0dana 6y agohttps://colornames.org/color/dabad0 https://colornames.org/color/dabad0
- tbassetto 6y agoAfter seeing your comment, I thought blue should be #DaBaDe(e) but I wasn't first to come up with this idea: https://colornames.org/color/dabade https://colornames.org/color/dabade
- lioeters 6y agoNice. There's also: I'm Blue https://colornames.org/color/174ac0 https://colornames.org/color/174ac0 I'M BLuE https://colornames.org/color/1971d5 https://colornames.org/color/1971d5
- FireBeyond 6y agoThat ought to end well. "It enhances understanding! We benefit from a nomenclature..." ... that is apparently entirely reliant on case-sensitivity. Because "I'm Blue" is a very different color to "I'M BLuE" (and I guarantee there's probably dozens of other variations there, at least). Seriously?
- 867-5309 6y agohaven't checked if it's there, but Stubbed Toe: #FFFFFF
- empath75 6y ago#DEADBF is dead beef, as it should be.
- nfoz 6y agoNo Fate: #000fa8