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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 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 (It also lets you see the words evoked by the color and vice versa, which was a fun LLM-driven analysis.)

    by dougb5
  • Neat!

    Feature request: I want the name of the color I'm hovering over to pop up next to the color. I don't want to have to look in the top left to see the name, especially with the board spinning. Also, I want the specific circle I'm hovering over to get a bit bigger so that I can see its exact color better and know that I've selected it.

    by CobrastanJorji
  • It's always struck me as odd how there are so many off-white colors in HTML/CSS compared to the rest of the space.
    by billyp-rva
  • Very clearly shows much more sensitive our eyes are to luminance rather than hue or saturation, which was the main observation that allowed for the high compression rate of JPEG
    by kouru225
  • I use a similar app called Name That Color — https://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/#6195ED

    I like sharing descriptive names with designers instead of naming everything "light blue" "dark blue" "not quite as light but still not dark blue" etc.

    This new thing is tons of fun but seems a bit less practically useful.

    by Eric_WVGG
  • I originally made this about 8 years ago just for myself: to see where the color name list I maintain had gaps: https://github.com/meodai/color-names

    As I learned more about color models, I kept adding different ones over time. The perceptual models helped me understand the “missing” areas much better.

    Later, after building an API around the list (https://github.com/meodai/color-name-api ), I started including other lists with permissive licenses too.

    Appreciate all the thoughts and feedback here. I’ve also changed it so the cube stops spinning once you interact with it.

    by meodai
  • Wish there was a way to make it stop spinning, it's practically impossible to figure out adjacent colors because everything keeps moving no matter what you do. Perhaps there is a way, but I didn't find it?
    by Etheryte
  • RGB is a color model[1], not a color space[2].

    Note that the headline gets this wrong but the page linked to gets this right.

    sRGB or Rec2020 or ACEScg etc. are color spaces with known primaries and a known whitepoint. This is not nit-picky. Almost everyone doing CGI for the first time w/o reading up on some theory beforehand gets this wrong (because of gamma and then premultiplication, usually in that order).

    Then there are color models which are also color spaces. CIE XYZ is an example.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_model

    [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_space

    by virtualritz

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