{"id":356,"date":"2007-09-28T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/color-names\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T05:00:40","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T13:00:40","slug":"color-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/webwork\/color-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Color names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chirag Mehta has made a little <a href=\"http:\/\/chir.ag\/phernalia\/name-that-color\/\" title=\"name that color\" target=\"_blank\">application that will return a color name<\/a> if you enter a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/webwork.htm#hexcolor\" title=\"understanding and using hex codes to designate colors\" target=\"_blank\">hex code<\/a>. Take the html web palette for this site, for example (the blog palette is slightly different). <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/images\/rr-colorpalette.jpg\" title=\"web palette\" alt=\"web palette\" class=\"right\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\" \/> You&#8217;d probably get a blank look if you said to someone, &#8220;Tom&#8217;s site is, you know, DDAA77, 996633, 880000, 819D90.&#8221; According to Mehta&#8217;s program, what you should say instead is that it&#8217;s in &#8220;tumbleweed, potters&#8217; clay, red berry, and oxley.&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t that sound wholesome?<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, let&#8217;s try this with a few other sites, chosen more or less at random (the sites may use additional colors besides the ones I list).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michelle Richmond&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/michellerichmond.com\/sanserif\/\" title=\"sans serif\" target=\"_blank\">Sans Serif<\/a> is in &#8220;espresso,&#8221; &#8220;coffee,&#8221; and &#8220;Lisbon brown&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buriedmirror.com\/latest\/\" title=\"buried mirror: mesoamerica and the maya world\" target=\"_blank\">Buried Mirror<\/a> also uses uses &#8220;Lisbon brown,&#8221; along with &#8220;Saratoga&#8221; and &#8220;yellow metal&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arb0rv1tae.typepad.com\/bookworm\/\" title=\"classical bookworm\" target=\"_blank\">Classical Bookworm <\/a>is &#8220;lonestar,&#8221; &#8220;brown pod,&#8221; and &#8220;rosewood&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"cheznamastenancy\" target=\"_blank\">ChezNamasteNancy <\/a>uses &#8220;dusty gray,&#8221; &#8220;dove gray,&#8221; and &#8220;wedgewood&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/indiamos.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"india, ink: graphic design\" target=\"_blank\">India, Ink<\/a> is &#8220;emperor,&#8221; &#8220;Bali Hai,&#8221; and &#8220;shuttle gray&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Edward Champion&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/\" title=\"edward champion's return of the reluctant\" target=\"_blank\">Return of the Reluctant<\/a> is &#8220;emerald,&#8221; &#8220;Portafino,&#8221; and &#8220;blue zodiac&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which brings us to the part of this post where we admit that this exercise has proven largely pointless. I don&#8217;t think you can visualize the color schemes of the sites very well through the color names offered. That&#8217;s partly because the names are inconsistent in nature. &#8220;Emerald&#8221; might reference an object with a certain color, but &#8220;Portofino&#8221; is completely subjective and arbitrary. Quick, what color is &#8220;lonestar&#8221;?  (It&#8217;s a kind of vermilion red.)<\/p>\n<p>I think that colors largely take their meaning from their juxtapositions with other colors. You can probably give a better sense of a color scheme by describing the response it evokes than by using arbitrary and inconsistent color names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chirag Mehta has made a little application that will return a color name if you enter a hex code. 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