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Great project! It's visually dazzling and it really drives home the sheer size of the universe(s) of named colors. I've long been interested in the names of
by dougb5 11mo ago
Great project! It's visually dazzling and it really drives home the sheer size of the universe(s) of named colors.
I've long been interested in the names of colors and their associations. If I may plug my own site a bit, check out the "color thesaurus" feature on OneLook that organizes color names more linearly. Start with mauve, as an example: https://onelook.com/?w=mauve&colors=1 https://onelook.com/?w=mauve&colors=1
(It also lets you see the words evoked by the color and vice versa, which was a fun LLM-driven analysis.)
- Tempest1981 11mo agoAnd how far things have come since the X11 color names
- mceachen 11mo agoX11 color names are atrociously bad. Inconsistent prefixes and suffixes, flatly wrong names for many handfuls of RGB triplets, and it’s what got hard wired into CSS and HTML.
- meodai 11mo agoI am the creator of the 3d thing that was shared. I am very interested in collaborating on something. Is the data you used for it accessible somewhere?
- dougb5 11mo agoYeah I can make it available! Contact me at the email in my profile and I can explain what I have.