A handpicked list of 25840 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
The aim of this project is to create as large a list of color names as possible while maintining 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!
~0.15% 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
npm install color-name-list --save
or yarn add color-name-list
JSON / JSON.min / CSV / YML / JS / XML / HTML / SCSS / CSS
JSON / JSON.min / CSV / YML / JS / XML / HTML / SCSS / CSS
https://api.color.pizza/v1/{{hexvalue without the #}},{{more comma separated values}}
curl
https://api.color.pizza/v1/212121
{
"colors": [{
"name": "Lead",
"hex": "#212121",
"rgb": {"r": 33, "g": 33, "b": 33},
"distance": 0, // its an exact match
"luminance": 22.062320231562225,
"requestedHex": "#212121",
}]
}
curl
https://api.color.pizza/v1/212121,060606,ff0012,550055,123456
curl
https://api.color.pizza/v1/
In this case colors is not an object
but an array
of objects
sorted by color-name
by adding ?noduplicates=true
every returned name will be unique. The closest color, that was not returned previously will be returned:
curl
https://api.color.pizza/v1/212121,212121?noduplicates=true
{
"colors": [{
"name": "Lead",
"hex": "#212121",
"rgb": { "r": 33, "g": 33, "b": 33 },
"luminance": 22.062320231562225
},{
"name": "Abaddon Black",
"hex": "#231f20",
"rgb": { "r": 35, "g": 31, "b": 32 },
"luminance": 21.30621829419759
}]
}
Not all color-names are created equal; add ?goodnamesonly=true
to your request URL to get a handpicked subset of names that were rated as good by humans. (Colors that are liked a lot on twitter and some of the team favourites).
import namedColors from 'color-name-list';
let someColor = namedColors.find(color => color.hex === '#ffffff');
console.log(someColor.name); // => white
let someNamedColor = namedColors.find(color => color.name === 'Eigengrau')
console.log(someColor.hex); // => #16161d
Since 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 namedColors 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 Tale
Alternative package: ktree
Note: If you are looking for something visually more accurate, you could: use DeltaE, or use the above snippet, combined with a transform from rgb to ciecam02 scaled to 0-255.
npm install && npm run build
See package.json for more.
- Thousands of user submissions Twitter/Google Docs/Github
- Wikipedia list of named colors (2018-02-23)
- CSS/HTML color names
- Wernerโs Nomenclature of Colours
- ntc.js
- xkcd color survey list
- htmlcsscolor.com
- OSX Crayons
- Crayola crayon
- 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
- meodai Initiator, maintainer, name creator &, tooling
- Nirazul Name creator & tooling
- Bathos Tooling
- Metafizzy Logo Sponsor ๐
Verena the naming overloard, Jess the name wizzard, Syl, Stephanie Stutz, Simbiasamba, Jason Wilson, Inรชs Joรฃo, Nick Niles, Qwhex, Ichatdelune, basgys, Shelina S., Trevor Elia, cheesits456, Sandhya Subram, BerylBucket
In the process we try to remove all names that are offensive or racist, as well as protected brand names. As some of the color names come from other lists, some bad ones might slip in. Please report them, they will be removed as quickly as possible.