I built something very similar a few years ago <a href="https://hex-colours.netlify.app/" rel="nofollow">https://hex-colours.netlify.app/</a>
So 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?
And also three-digit color codes, such as #BAD.
And for non-hex colors, we have this: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...</a>
Hexspeak[0] is a time-honoured tradition, with constants like 0xDEADBEEF used to mark uninitialised memory. Fun to see it applied to colours.<p>0. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak</a>
I'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.<p>It was on my "toy project list" after reading these two very interesting stories/threads:<p>The famous CAFEBABE story: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2808646/why-are-the-first-four-bytes-of-the-java-class-file-format-cafebabe" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2808646/why-are-the-firs...</a><p>Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?:
<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color#8333464" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...</a>
If anybody is wondering SOBBED (#50BBED[1]) is pretty close to Zima Blue[2].<p>[1]: <a href="https://color-hex.org/color/50bbed" rel="nofollow">https://color-hex.org/color/50bbed</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima_Blue_and_Other_Stories" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima_Blue_and_Other_Stories</a>
Nicely done. This is a fun idea that comes up time and again.<p>I think I might have made one of the first implementations way back in 2011: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111117062015/techbelly.com/semantic.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20111117062015/techbelly.com/sem...</a><p>And someone quickly made a better version inspired by it here:
<a href="http://lexadecimal.pixielabs.io/" rel="nofollow">http://lexadecimal.pixielabs.io/</a>
Nice! I made a hexwords mode on <a href="https://www.lazycolor.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.lazycolor.com/</a>
I haven't really touched the site in a decade... maybe I'll update it next decade.
I 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).
From 2014 <a href="http://bada55.io/" rel="nofollow">http://bada55.io/</a> includes a much more expansive set considering hex colors do not require all six characters. #101
Would 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).
Reminds me about when people had to generate a string of random characters but take anything out that's close to a slur.<p>Forgot what the end result was, no vowels and numbers?
My initial and surname when written as an hexcode make a nice orange colour: Texas rose, according to some website.<p>Are there more people that can write their name as a hexcode?
You many want to consider a naughty words filter. <a href="https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and...</a>