I have a handful I'd nominate as "lazy programmer" colors that I think are useful as placeholders but aren't as horrid as #FF00FF etc:

  blue   #aabbdd
  green  #aaddbb
  purple #bbaadd
  pink   #ddaabb
  orange #ddbbaa

(I usually end up using #bbddaa as well but it's just a different shade of green)

After seeing your comment, I thought blue should be #DaBaDe(e) but I wasn't first to come up with this idea: https://colornames.org/color/dabade

Nice. There's also:

I'm Blue https://colornames.org/color/174ac0

I'M BLuE https://colornames.org/color/1971d5

There is only one true blue !

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue

That ought to end well. "It enhances understanding! We benefit from a nomenclature..."

... that is apparently entirely reliant on case-sensitivity. Because "I'm Blue" is a very different color to "I'M BLuE" (and I guarantee there's probably dozens of other variations there, at least).

Seriously?

Are they doing names for families of colors?

Yours should be called Yabba Dabba Doo.

Or perhaps Fred Flintstone.

Maybe call them Coder”s Blue etc..

#BADA55 - hex for some key lime pie in the web UI

For a project a few years ago I labeled a color "priest socks." It was something like #000044: very very very very very very dark blue.

That managed to uncover all of the Father Ted fans on the team.

BTW, that "Nice Cyan" (#006969) is actually really nice (at least to me), I can imagine myself building a website/app with that color theme.

BTW, Slashdot is #006666

May be they should restrict it to 2 or 3 words without punctuation.

If it's 3 non-repeating unordered words, the minimum vocabulary will need to be 256*3 = 768. Realistically you'll need an order of magnitude larger. That's a pretty large vocabulary.

It is a minor point, but 467 words would suffice, as there are 16865705 possibilities to choose 3 elements out of 467. (This is the smallest possible.)

Strictly speaking, yes, if you just view it as unordered sampling without replacement. Although that would squeeze out nearly all of the creative side of things.

That’s not right. 256 * 255 * 254

I suspect you didn't catch gp's meaning: To get to 24 bits of color info, you'd need at least 3 words of 8 bit info each. If you want these to be non-repeating and unordered that makes 256x3=768 unique words.

This isn't correct though.

You need 256 base words, and two substitute words, one of which substitutes for the first repeat, and the other for the second, so 258 words total.

That accounts for the repeating but not the ordering, right?

Oh, by 'unordered' you mean that the three words could be in any order and still mean the same thing?

Okay but that's a strange requirement. A 'big burger house' isn't a 'big house burger', after all.

I had read 'unordered' as 'the collation order of the words has no connection to the ordinal rank of the underlying byte', for some reason

I'm just jumping in where I saw a misunderstanding :) I think that's what they mean by unordered as that makes sense with the numbers (I think).

To some degree I agree, but there are also a lot of cases where different orders aren't distinguishable easily. "Light bright red" and "bright light red" is the best I can come up with quickly but I'm sure you get the idea.

haven't checked if it's there, but

Stubbed Toe: #FFFFFF

#DEADBF is dead beef, as it should be.

No Fate: #000fa8