Color Palette Bota marvelous new palette for you to enjoy:
Fine Gold (#d9ac26),
Grand Poobah (#884465),
Clear Purple (#412673),
For the Love of Hue (#447b88), and
Bitter Lime and Defeat (#32d926)
Snail@Color_Palette_Bot I have only just clocked that you've updated to add colour names too.
I'm now having flashbacks to a computer manual from the 80's where the author named all 128 colours, including "Doggy Tongue"
Alien_SunsetWell, THATS quite the evocative color name! 😆
I really love the color names list, @stefan brought it to my attention, and I feel like it’s taken colorBot to the next level. it’s not standardised like web safe colors or anything, but it really adds an extra dimension of … inspiration? Whimsy? Whatever, that makes even the palettes that don’t quite mesh color wise more interesting.
Stefan Bohacek@Alien_Sunset Definitely, love this!
I was originally coming from an accessibility point of view, so I wonder, maybe as part of the alt text, if it would be possible to match the more whimsical colors to more recognizable colors.
Something like this?
For the Love of Hue, a shade of green, HEX code: #447b88
right now all my code REALLY knows is hex codes, and I use the nearest neighbor script to match those to the color names list color names' hex codes. (they aren't EXACT matches, you will notice that occasionally the same name comes up attached to a slightly different hex code)
I would need a whole 'nother names library that assigns a range of hex codes to the more "basic" names
@Alien_Sunset Yeah, I figured you'd need two sets of color lists, and match against both. Might not be easy to find, definitely understand!
This also brings up the fascinating conversation of where does one “shade” stop and another begin/how many descriptive shade names to use, because *I* would say that ‘for the love of hue’ is a shade of teal 😆
There was an internet quiz type thing about that going around a bit ago and it was truly interesting to see how wobbly the borders were for people
@Alien_Sunset @stefan life was so much easier when we only had 256 / 128 / 16 / 8 / 4* colours ;-)
The shade stuff is fascinating, there are definitely "differences in opinion" sometimes in my household. (Mrs Snail does a lot of craft stuff, so I'm often asked to locate materials of certain colours)
* Delete as applicable to age
@Alien_Sunset @stefan also (because I'm not sure where in this thread to hang it) I thought I'd mention I did have a brief play with my hashamatic bot to see if I could get it to read color bot's pallette suggestions and use that as the base for colouring one of it's "squares" pictures.
Mainly as an exercise in interacting with other posts and the 4-colour problem although I've not been happy enough with the results so far to add it to the rota.
Actually now that I think about it… color is really subjective,
When it comes to something like colorbot who’s main purpose is to inspire and just happens to use colors,
to someone who is blind/color blind and to whom ‘color’ and ‘hue’ are likely already pretty theoretical, would the “basic” color names or the evocative if not always perfectly descriptive names be more desirable?
(This might be a good poll for @alttexthalloffame )
Yes, this question comes up every now and then! The thing to consider is that there are different levels/kinds of blindness and vision impairment. Some legally blind people can still percieve light, loss of vision can be temporary, or aquired later in life. And even people who have been born blind can have association with certain colors.