Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

I built something very similar a few years ago <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hex-colours.netlify.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hex-colours.netlify.app&#x2F;</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:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;8318911&#x2F;why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;8318911&#x2F;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hexspeak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hexspeak</a>

I&#x27;ve always wanted to make something like this! This is awesome. Filters to weed out leetspeak words, use only letters&#x2F;numbers, etc would be great.<p>It was on my &quot;toy project list&quot; after reading these two very interesting stories&#x2F;threads:<p>The famous CAFEBABE story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2808646&#x2F;why-are-the-first-four-bytes-of-the-java-class-file-format-cafebabe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2808646&#x2F;why-are-the-firs...</a><p>Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;8318911&#x2F;why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color#8333464" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;8318911&#x2F;why-does-html-th...</a>

If anybody is wondering SOBBED (#50BBED[1]) is pretty close to Zima Blue[2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;color-hex.org&#x2F;color&#x2F;50bbed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;color-hex.org&#x2F;color&#x2F;50bbed</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zima_Blue_and_Other_Stories" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zima_Blue_and_Other_Stories</a>

Reminds me a lot of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c0ffee.surge.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c0ffee.surge.sh</a>

I&#x27;m gonna start using #ACCE55 to indicate successful login and #B00B00 on failure.

7-&gt;T and 6-&gt;G is pushing it too far, imho.

Where has this been all of my career? Very #BADA55 indeed!

Ya&#x27;ll are missing my favorite one, although I guess its technically two words. &quot;Dad CEO&quot;: #dadce0

This should be turned into some hybrid between Wordle and MDN.

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:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20111117062015&#x2F;techbelly.com&#x2F;semantic.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20111117062015&#x2F;techbelly.com&#x2F;sem...</a><p>And someone quickly made a better version inspired by it here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lexadecimal.pixielabs.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lexadecimal.pixielabs.io&#x2F;</a>

Found a slur in the dataset, not sure if these are programmatically generated (I assume so) but may want to consider filtering those out.

#5A6E57, SAGEST, is interesting because it appears to be the most sage-like color on the board and is therefore autological.

Doesnt work with Firefox<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;0x0.st&#x2F;oMvf.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;0x0.st&#x2F;oMvf.png</a>

in my last job we used to work #C0FFEE coloured elements into our UI as a little easter egg of sorts.

Nice! I made a hexwords mode on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lazycolor.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lazycolor.com&#x2F;</a> I haven&#x27;t really touched the site in a decade... maybe I&#x27;ll update it next decade.

This is dumb, and I am in love with it. I&#x27;ll have to use some of these... :)

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:&#x2F;&#x2F;bada55.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bada55.io&#x2F;</a> includes a much more expansive set considering hex colors do not require all six characters. #101

You can do the same with ipv6 addresses. Something like dead:beef::babe

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&#x27;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?

Thanks for making an interesting article and only plugging your site at the end. I don&#x27;t mind submarine ads if I can learn something from them.

Really disappointed #dadb0d didn&#x27;t make the cut.

You should collaborate with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colornames.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colornames.org&#x2F;</a>

Whenever I give a demo, I always use #BADA55 because I have the maturity of a 12 year old. This will definitely expand my repertoire.

This is simultaneously interesting and useless.

I use d3 for visualization, and my favourite default color for everything is #d3d3d3. Works well in a lot of situations.

I love that &quot;booboo&quot; is blood red.

I wonder if there is another base other than 16 that would generate the most beautiful colors with most words.

To me, #CA551A wins it. Looks a lot like cassia tree bark, aka cinnamon.

I like that AC1D1C is red but BA51C is green. Hex code litmus paper.

Love it. Now I need some nice looking&#x2F;sounding palette phrases :-)

#B00B00 is one of my favorites as a dad with young kids (it’s red). :)

Didn&#x27;t someone once set the PETA website to #BEEEEF

This would make a pretty cool MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle!

I really don&#x27;t like this colour: #DE7E57

Badass color is not bad ass at all… :)

What does &quot;alpha&quot; switch do?

is it just for me? the copy icon seems on top of every word obstructing the view... :(

This is amazing, love it!!

ahem, you missed #d00d00

pretty cool, now we need something like a prettier plugin that forces hexes to the nearest hexword to make it useful

No #B00B1E?

I love this

What a fun and fantastic mnemonic tool!

#BADA55 is brown.<p>Giggle.

I love this &lt;3

This 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.

You many want to consider a naughty words filter. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LDNOOBW&#x2F;List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LDNOOBW&#x2F;List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and...</a>