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	Name that Colour

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1-12-2008 5:09 PM

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two great little online apps for exploring colour and the names society has given them

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9ecf8a91-f4b1-45c4-a5e6-3ee81fb75e3d/3153DE20-7784-4905-B3B9-AB3CF074CF0D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://chir.ag/phernalia/name-that-color/" href="http://chir.ag/phernalia/name-that-color/" style="font-size: 11px;">chir.ag</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chir.ag/phernalia/name-that-color/"><H1>Name that Color</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chir.ag/phernalia/name-that-color/"><H2>About Name that Color</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chir.ag/phernalia/name-that-color/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Being a typical guy, I have no clue what the colors Lavender and Mauve look like. You can show me Indigo and I won't know if it's more like Violet or Purple. So I made this little app where you can create a color on the screen (or copy-paste CSS hex# color) and find out the name of the closest matching color.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chir.ag/phernalia/name-that-color/">You can also select from the dropdown list of 1500+ colors and then play around.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chir.ag/phernalia/name-that-color/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The color names in this list were found via <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors">Wikipedia</A>, <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors">Crayola</A>, and <A target="_blank" href="http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/Color/Dictionaries.html">Color-Name Dictionaries</A> like <A target="_blank" href="http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/Color/resenecolours.txt">Resene</A>. I removed duplicates and manually edited the list for consistency.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chir.ag/phernalia/name-that-color/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">This tool is simply for fun and personal use. Don't send off that marketing brochure to printers based on this.</LI></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.colblindor.com/color-name-hue/" href="http://www.colblindor.com/color-name-hue/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.colblindor.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colblindor.com/color-name-hue/"><H3><A title="Permanent Link to Color Name & Hue" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.colblindor.com/color-name-hue/">Color Name & Hue</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colblindor.com/color-name-hue/"><P>It is always a problem for me to assign a certain color to a main hue. If you struggle also with this because of your color blindness, <STRONG>Color Name & Hue</STRONG> might help you. Try it out.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3153DE20-7784-4905-B3B9-AB3CF074CF0D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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