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1. Stan

   | Founder at SaaSHub | about 4 years ago
   A great idea!

   To me, it seems that colornames.org is the equivalent of wikipedia.org but for colors.

   👍 Pros:    Simple|Easy to use

Proboards mentions (3)

• New Youth Rights Forum I Just Created

  As an autistic person, I'm much more comfortable with the classic forum layout. I know instantly where a certain discussion would be appropriate. Whereas on reddit, I often feel at bit lost to be frank even with flair on posts. I've created a youth rights forum on proboards.com It's a free hosting service for forums. My forum is called Youth Rights Now! Source: 6 months ago

• Just an idea:What if we create a website that allows users to setup forum server based on customizable templates independently just like old school forums.

  I mean, sites like that have existed since back then. Hell Proboards is still active: https://proboards.com/. Source: almost 1 year ago

• website forum/message board recommendations please

  Otherwise, your best bet is to use a 3rd party service (like proboards.com - I hope its ok I posted that link, im not affiliated with it) and then just link to it from your website. that would the less hassle way. Source: about 2 years ago

colornames.org mentions (21)

• Grayfruit Official Colors Update

  For those who haven't seen the original post, TL;DR colornames.org allows you to name all the colors of the RGB 255 spectrum. We worked to get the names of the colors that make up the grayfruit logo to be the top names for those colors. I have two updates on the situation. Source: about 1 year ago

• Why can we imagine new words, creatures, architectures, but not colors?

  How about imagining new words/names for colors? Check out this Naming Colors website. It can be fun & eye opening in terms of how different people see the same color. Source: about 1 year ago

• How does color get its name?

  There are some standard names for some hex codes which you can see a list of here. I would recommend against using any of the more distinctive colour names (e.g. Alice Blue) on this list unless refering to these exact hex codes. Otherwise call it whatever you want to within reason. There are plenty of colour lists around which you can use as inspiration. When creating a palette for a company it's very common to... Source: over 1 year ago

• Guess the colour, right answers only

  Interesting fact, there’s a website where you can name new colours. Some of the suggestions are hilarious. Source: over 1 year ago

• Show HN: A color picker for named web colors only

  In case the named web colors aren't enough, we're making excellent progress naming every color in the RGB space. https://colornames.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago