A handpicked list of 30244 unique color names from various sources and thousands of curated user submissions.
The names of color function like a thread attached to a frightfully slender needle, capable of stitching together our most delicate emotions and memories. When the needle hits the target, we feel either pleasure or empathy. Kenya Hara โ White
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The aim of this project is to create a list of color names as large as possible, while keeping a good name quality. We've merged various lists, modified the names when there were duplicates with different hex values, and shifted the colors a bit when there were identical colors with different names.
- Color Picker & Name Search Click the wheel to get name for a color, or just use the full text search.
- Color Picker: Click the colored surface to change the color or type in a hex value below the name.
- Color Picker II: Move your mouse and scroll to choose a color.
- Name Search: full text search on the color list.
- Color Distribution 3D view of all color names in different color spaces.
- Twitter Bot: Posts random colors and lets you submit new ones.
via form ๐ / or twitter ๐ฆ
Make sure to read the naming rules before you contribute!
~0.18% of the RGB color space
Color distribution ๐ฐ
When coming up with new color names, it is vital to know what spots in a
certain color-space are crowded and where there is still room for new colors.
For example: Our API returns the closest RGB color to a given HEX value.
To avoid too many colors snapping to the same name, we aim to distribute the
colors evenly in the color space: Visualization
Size Warning (1.15 MB): If you are doing this in the browser, consider using the public rest API
npm install color-name-list --saveor yarn add color-name-list
JSON / JSON.min / CSV / YML / JS / XML / HTML / SCSS
JSON / JSON.min / CSV / YML / JS / XML / HTML / SCSS / CSS
To make it easier to access the names, we offer a free and public Rest API that allows you to access all the color names and names from other publicly available name lists. You can find the full API code and documentation in this repository.
https://api.color.pizza/v1/?values=00f,f00,f00&list=bestOfThe API is free to use and has no limitations. But if your app/site is commercial and causes excessive traffic, I might contact you to become a sponsor.
Feel free to deploy it yourself, it is very easy to host/deploy on heroku and has no dependencies Color-Name-API
Size Warning (1.15 MB): If you are doing this in the browser, consider using the public rest API
import { colorNameList } from 'color-name-list';
let someColor = colorNameList.find(color => color.hex === '#ffffff');
console.log(someColor.name); // => white
let someNamedColor = colorNameList.find(color => color.name === 'Eigengrau')
console.log(someColor.hex); // => #16161dSince there are 16777216 possible RGB colors, you might use a library such as nearest-color or ClosestVector to help you find the the closest named color.
import nearestColor from 'nearest-color';
import { colorNameList } from 'color-name-list';
// nearestColor need objects {name => hex} as input
const colors = colorNameList.reduce((o, { name, hex }) => Object.assign(o, { [name]: hex }), {});
const nearest = nearestColor.from(colors);
// get closest named color
nearest('#f1c1d1'); // => Fairy TaleNote: If you are looking for something visually more accurate, you could use DeltaE or use the above snippet, but using ciecam02 instead of RGB.
npm install && npm run buildSee package.json for more.
- Thousands of user submissions Twitter / Google Docs / Github
- Wikipedia list of named colors (2018-02-23)
- Wada Sanzo's list of named colors
- CSS/HTML color names
- Wernerโs Nomenclature of Colours
- ntc.js
- xkcd color survey list
- htmlcsscolor.com
- OSX Crayons
- Crayola crayon
- Japanese Twelve Level Cap and Rank System colors
- Thailand weekday colors
- Chinese heavenly creatures colors
- Military Paint
- Olympian god colors
- Model Color Paints: Vallejo
- Fictional Colors (2018-05-09)
- Non English Transliterations: Japanese , Mandarin , Hindi , Persian , Russian , Mฤori
- Multiple paint, print, nail polish, model paint color lists
- Curated Machine Learning names from Matt DesLauriers and Nathan Kjer
- Team Fortress 2 paint colors
- meodai Initiator, maintainer, name creator &, tooling
- Nirazul Name creator & tooling
- Bathos Tooling
- Metafizzy Logo ๐
- Colorful Dots 500USD/year
- neverything 25USD/month
- Dmitry Iv. 10USD/month
- colorkit.co 10USD/month
- krissymashinsky.com 300USD
- color.museum 100CHF
- @tunnckoCore 50USD
- Myriam Aerne 20CHF
- Amin 15USD
| Item | Expenditure |
|---|---|
| Logo by Metafizzy | 800 |
| Item | Expenditure |
|---|---|
| Color Name API Server | 264.60/year |
| color.pizza domain name | 36.16/year |
| Cloudflare PRO Plan | 240/year |
Verena the naming overlord , Jess the name wizard , Syl , Stephanie Stutz , Simbiasamba , Jason Wilson , Inรชs Joรฃo , Nick Niles , Qwhex , Ichatdelune , basgys , Shelina S. , Trevor Elia , cheesits456 , Sandhya Subram , BerylBucket , Jimmy Fitzback , TLZ , DarthTorus , Carrion , BlueChaos , nachtfunke , Sean Gibbons
In an effort to create a more inclusive and respectful environment, we strive to remove all offensive and racist names, as well as protected brand names, from our list. While we do our best to screen out such names, some may still slip through. If you come across any such names, please let us know so that we can remove them promptly.
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