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Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words
- apricot 4y agoI like that AC1D1C is red but BA51C is green. Hex code litmus paper.
- CobrastanJorji 4y ago#5A6E57, SAGEST, is interesting because it appears to be the most sage-like color on the board and is therefore autological.
- cygnusryefly 4y ago@Godel -- look!
- superb-owl 4y agoYou many want to consider a naughty words filter. https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and...
- samb1729 4y agoOr better yet, they could ignore this suggestion entirely!
- failTide 4y agoI understand a lot of those, but why is "beaver cleaver" on the list? I could see how it might be used in a dirty way, but that can't be the most common way it's used, right?
- hoppyhoppy2 4y agoWell it's on the filter list, so someone must consider it more offensive than words not on the list such as "gaping poophole thrusting".
- bee_rider 4y agoThe "dirty" use seems pretty silly (sounds like something out of a crass 80's movie or something), but I can't really imagine using it in a non-dirty manner either. I mean I know people have hunted and trapped beavers, but when the capture them they don't just, like, thwack them with a giant cleaver, right? Would ruin the pelt if nothing else.
- failTide 4y agoNot sure if you're messing with me, but Beaver Cleaver is the name of a famous sitcom character. Awesome show IMO, you can watch the entire series for free on archive.org https://archive.org/details/leave.it.to.beaver.complete.series https://archive.org/details/leave.it.to.beaver.complete.seri...
- bee_rider 4y agoI wasn't -- I was not aware that his last name was Cleaver, haha.
- turtledove 4y agoTIL. That said, I'm sure if you polled most folks these days, beaver would mean animal or women's genitalia, and not leave it to beaver. Given the relatively common crass meaning for beaver, beaver cleaver sure sounds like a sexual innuendo to me.
- warning26 4y agoSince the raison d'être of this project seems to be spelling ridiculous things out of hex colors, I think it would lose a lot of its appeal with such a filter.
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- mikece 4y agoWhere has this been all of my career? Very #BADA55 indeed!
- rommel917 4y ago#BADA55 is skin color of kerbals from KSP
- andix 4y agoYou can do the same with ipv6 addresses. Something like dead:beef::babe
- tralarpa 4y agoAnd also three-digit color codes, such as #BAD. And for non-hex colors, we have this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...
- kwatsonafter 4y agoThis is the kind of quirky, brilliant link I crave from Hacker News. If I was near you creator, I would garland you and rub your feet.
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- moron4hire 4y agoInteresting. You consider it a waste of time. So this post from you must be an example of the sunk cost fallacy, as you throw good time after bad.
- bricemo 4y agoI have enjoyed this exchange about as much as the original link. Bravo
- moron4hire 4y ago
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoI think you're both right. It's a fun little page that doesn't actually serve any purpose, like... comedic art? The practical solutions to this opinion divide are to somehow categorize entries like this as [funny] or whatever so people can skip them informedly, or to simply accept that HN aggregates content that appeals to different minds.
- jethro_tell 4y agoThink you just created old reddit
- ljoshua 4y ago#B00B00 is one of my favorites as a dad with young kids (it’s red). :)
- jjslocum3 4y agoWhat a fun and fantastic mnemonic tool!
- xigoi 4y agoI have a project named “xidoc”. I spent a long time trying to come up with a logo and a primary color, then I got the cute idea of using the letter ξ (xi) in the color #d0c (which happens to be a quite lovely magenta).
- duffyjp 4y agoYou should collaborate with https://colornames.org/ https://colornames.org/
- nathias 4y agopretty cool, now we need something like a prettier plugin that forces hexes to the nearest hexword to make it useful
- jalk 4y agoLove it. Now I need some nice looking/sounding palette phrases :-)
- mattrb 4y agoReminds me a lot of https://c0ffee.surge.sh https://c0ffee.surge.sh
- tunesmith 4y agoI love that "booboo" is blood red.
- amelius 4y ago7->T and 6->G is pushing it too far, imho.
- BaraBatman 4y agoIsn't LEET === 1337 pretty standard?
- hunter2_ 4y agoBringing up the topic of "leet" actually serves in two capacities: not only is it a prime example of 7=T, but leetspeak's overall orthography [0] is conceptually similar to this "hexwords" site far beyond 7=T. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet#Orthography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet#Orthography
- hifikuno 4y agoFor some reason I used to think that 1337 was LEET upside down.
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- warning26 4y agoI'd like to have filters to play with different levels of substitution. Only alpha, only 3 -> e, etc.
- googlryas 4y ago2->Z as well. I've been a h4x0r for 25+ years and "21663D" looks nothing like "zigged" to me.
- croes 4y agoBut 2 and 6 are more similar to Z and G than 3 are to E.
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- curling_grad 4y agoThe hacker news orange is #ff6600. Pretty close.
- citruscomputing 4y agoYeah, if you sort by closeness, this is the closest word.
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- svnpenn 4y agoDoesnt work with Firefox http://0x0.st/oMvf.png http://0x0.st/oMvf.png
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoworks for me without issues, firefox 101
- petschge 4y agoPretty broken in 91.10.0esr (64-bit) on Linux
- unnouinceput 4y agoIt absolutely does: https://i.postimg.cc/wg8nrTwj/hexwords-firefox.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/wg8nrTwj/hexwords-firefox.jpg
- abathur 4y agoThis is dumb, and I am in love with it. I'll have to use some of these... :)
- nr2x 4y agoThis should be turned into some hybrid between Wordle and MDN.
- bezoz 4y agoThis would make a pretty cool MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle!
- thrdbndndn 4y agoWhat does "alpha" switch do?
- itcrowd 4y agoIncludes longer words to define the alpha (transparency) channnel
- pdpi 4y agoHexspeak[0] is a time-honoured tradition, with constants like 0xDEADBEEF used to mark uninitialised memory. Fun to see it applied to colours. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
- collegeburner 4y agoYeah B16B00B5 and CAFEBABE are 2 of my favorite funnier ones Ive used a bunch of times. They make for more interesting placeholder values than "foo" and "bar" anyway.
- netsharc 4y agoShouldn't that be B16? I'd make a joke about beware of the woke crowd coming for you, but I think even joking about that causes offense nowadays.
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoNo 6 looks like a 'b'. I think closest to 'g' is 9.
- function_seven 4y agoBut 'B' is already there, and all the other characters are uppercase, so '6' -> 'G' scans easier to my eye. '619' may be 'big', but it doesn't scan that well. 'B16' looks more like 'BIG'
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- hypertele-Xii 4y agoWithout commenting on the reasonability of it, you may want to be aware that a growing population of vegetarian and female tech workers may find these offensive.
- phelm 4y agoDidn't someone once set the PETA website to #BEEEEF
- spencerflem 4y agoI love this <3
- dark-star 4y agoSo which of these actually spell the color they represent (or something closely related)? From a quick glance, I have no found any. Do color-words like that exist in other languages maybe?
- magneticnorth 4y agoA couple more I spotted: #ACAC1A is a shade of green and Acacia is a type of tree. #57061E (stogie) is dark brown, and a stogie is a cigar.
- sisk 4y ago#B00B00 (dark red) was my favorite
- ufo 4y agoGreat color for errors!
- stingrae 4y agomaybe #5EABED, which is a shade of blue?
- btown 4y ago#1C1E57 (ICIEST) is dark blue, which could hold true in certain contexts! #DEBA65 (DEBAGS) is brown, much like de color of de bags made of de paper. And on a related and exceptionally juvenile note, it should be very possible - and frankly obligatory, for those in fashion tech companies reading this - to create and sell a #B00B1E colored bra.
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoTangentially related, and equally juvenile, I own the telephone number in Australia: 08 80087355 Still gives me a chuckle. Grow up.
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- karateka 4y agoI built something very similar a few years ago https://hex-colours.netlify.app/ https://hex-colours.netlify.app/
- gpt5 4y agoYou mean identical? Seems like OP likely got inspired by your page :)
- jy14898 4y agoNice, hexwords only has 1000 words, compared to your 3500
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- soheil 4y agoI wonder if there is another base other than 16 that would generate the most beautiful colors with most words.
- zem 4y agoin my last job we used to work #C0FFEE coloured elements into our UI as a little easter egg of sorts.
- joshwcomeau 4y agoI love this
- gloryless 4y agoThis is amazing, love it!!
- danielvaughn 4y agoWhenever I give a demo, I always use #BADA55 because I have the maturity of a 12 year old. This will definitely expand my repertoire.
- c22 4y agoI'm gonna start using #ACCE55 to indicate successful login and #B00B00 on failure.
- distrill 4y agowow. they're ugly, but that's awesome they map to green and red.
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- kretaceous 4y agoI've always wanted to make something like this! This is awesome. Filters to weed out leetspeak words, use only letters/numbers, etc would be great. It was on my "toy project list" after reading these two very interesting stories/threads: The famous CAFEBABE story: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2808646/why-are-the-first-four-bytes-of-the-java-class-file-format-cafebabe https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2808646/why-are-the-firs... Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color#8333464 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...
- gunnarmorling 4y agoDisappointed to see that C#'s counterpart to Java's 0xCAFEBABE is missing: 0xBADDECAF /s
- Deuterium 4y agoNice! I made a hexwords mode on https://www.lazycolor.com/ https://www.lazycolor.com/ I haven't really touched the site in a decade... maybe I'll update it next decade.
- travisgriggs 4y ago#BADA55 is brown. Giggle.
- phabricator 4y agoThanks for making an interesting article and only plugging your site at the end. I don't mind submarine ads if I can learn something from them.
- techbelly 4y agoNicely done. This is a fun idea that comes up time and again. I think I might have made one of the first implementations way back in 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20111117062015/techbelly.com/semantic.html https://web.archive.org/web/20111117062015/techbelly.com/sem... And someone quickly made a better version inspired by it here: http://lexadecimal.pixielabs.io/ http://lexadecimal.pixielabs.io/
- turtledove 4y agoFound a slur in the dataset, not sure if these are programmatically generated (I assume so) but may want to consider filtering those out.
- joshuahaglund 4y agoFor the curious, I think they mean decimal values 16408693 and 16410119. Which have other archaic meanings but their primary modern meanings are a slur. 16410349 is apparently British slang for exhausted, so maybe gets a pass?
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- Veen 4y agoIt's worth pointing out that they are slurs in the U.S., not globally. One is a type of meatball where I'm from.
- turtledove 4y agoYep. But if your user base is likely to include Americans, then you might want to consider filtering them out. (As it could be shocking to read.) Note the word consider, by the way. I'm not demanding anything here, I'm saying the author should make a deliberate choice about their inclusion rather than including them just because they were auto generated.
- langsoul-com 4y agoReminds me about when people had to generate a string of random characters but take anything out that's close to a slur. Forgot what the end result was, no vowels and numbers?
- IntrepidWorm 4y agoYeah, it's a prime example of a sisyphean task. Language is too varied and fluid, and the internet is far too juvenile to be censored for any length of time (not a dig, but you try telling reddit they can't say slurs anymore).
- gtm1260 4y agoYa'll are missing my favorite one, although I guess its technically two words. "Dad CEO": #dadce0
- fjfaase 4y agoMy initial and surname when written as an hexcode make a nice orange colour: Texas rose, according to some website. Are there more people that can write their name as a hexcode?
- uwagar 4y agois it just for me? the copy icon seems on top of every word obstructing the view... :(
- hajimuz 4y agoBadass color is not bad ass at all… :)
- iso1631 4y agoNo #B00B1E?
- syborg 4y agohttps://imgur.com/a/L3pBpKq https://imgur.com/a/L3pBpKq
- oniony 4y agoI really don't like this colour: #DE7E57
- danreedx86 4y agoahem, you missed #d00d00
- want2takearide 4y agoIf anybody is wondering SOBBED (#50BBED[1]) is pretty close to Zima Blue[2]. [1]: https://color-hex.org/color/50bbed https://color-hex.org/color/50bbed [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima_Blue_and_Other_Stories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima_Blue_and_Other_Stories
- andrewbaron 4y agoFrom 2014 http://bada55.io/ http://bada55.io/ includes a much more expansive set considering hex colors do not require all six characters. #101
- sigil 4y agoReally disappointed #dadb0d didn't make the cut.
- loudthing 4y agoThis is simultaneously interesting and useless.
- tonicbbleking 4y agoTo me, #CA551A wins it. Looks a lot like cassia tree bark, aka cinnamon.
- paradite 4y agoI use d3 for visualization, and my favourite default color for everything is #d3d3d3. Works well in a lot of situations.
- thenoblesunfish 4y agoWould be fun to plot all these on a color wheel to see how non-uniform it is, as a consequence of the distribution in English words (which can be represented this way).
- reidjs 4y ago