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Large list of handpicked color names 🌈

18 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 5 stories, 13 comments · first 2018-04-15 · latest 2026-10-23

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  1. https://github.com/meodai/color-names
    comment by meodai · 2026-10-23 · in Color Names
  2. …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…
    comment by meodai · 2025-11-04 · in A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors
  3. No they are separate lists. "All Color Names" comes from: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
    comment by meodai · 2025-11-04 · in A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors
  4. Here's the list of colors it works off of: https://github.com/meodai/color-names/blob/main/src/colornam... I'm trying to figure it out.
    comment by madcaptenor · 2025-11-03 · in A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors
  5. Because a) I keep adding names and b) the list weights over 1mb https://github.com/meodai/color-names
    comment by meodai · 2025-06-21 · in Show HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable name
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    Show HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable name
    story by meodai · 2025-06-19 · 52 comments
  7. thanks! Collecting them has been my hobby for the past few years: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
    comment by meodai · 2025-06-18 · in Poline – An enigmatic color palette generator using polar coordinates
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    Large list of handpicked color names
    story by fagnerbrack · 2023-06-28 · 0 comments
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    Color Names
    story by awinter-py · 2022-11-22 · 0 comments
  10. ….. [1] https://github.com/davo/Color-Standards-and-Color-Nomenclatu... .. [2] https://github.com/meodai/color-names
    comment by culi · 2022-11-22 · in Show HN: A color picker for named web colors
  11. Nice. Check out https://github.com/meodai/color-names for a rather large (29888!) collection of hand picked colors in case you want to expand your project.
    comment by fabstei · 2022-11-21 · in Show HN: A color picker for named web colors
  12. …names. But I can't take credit for that, because someone else is doing all the hard work here: https://github.com/meodai/color-names Showing them in more places might be cool, but the performance might become an issue then. Saving settings…
    comment by pabue · 2022-02-16 · in Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors
  13. I'm using this package: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
    comment by pabue · 2022-02-16 · in Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors
  14. I'm using meodai/color-names ( https://github.com/meodai/color-names ). Pretty awesome project.
    comment by pabue · 2022-02-16 · in Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors
  15. Really cool to hear that! And the names are definitely awesome. All the credit for that goes to: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
    comment by pabue · 2022-02-16 · in Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors
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    A large list of handpicked color names
    story by catacombs · 2021-02-02 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: 17871 Color-Names & color tools
    story by meodai · 2019-03-24 · 0 comments
  18. …of these 16,880 named colors, how many of them are lighter or darker versions of the others? [0] https://github.com/meodai/color-names
    comment by anonytrary · 2018-04-15 · in This cube visualizes which of the 16,777,216 colors have assigned names