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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by heleninboodler on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:56AM (#22853502)
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)
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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by tbassetto on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:10AM (#22854247)
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
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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by lioeters on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:16PM (#22859046)
Nice. There's also:

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

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

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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by sharken on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:53PM (#22861782)
There is only one true blue !

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

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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by FireBeyond on Monday April 13, 2020 @06:12PM (#22860767)
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?

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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by Stratoscope on Monday April 13, 2020 @02:47AM (#22853688)
Are they doing names for families of colors?

Yours should be called Yabba Dabba Doo.

Or perhaps Fred Flintstone.

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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by 0dana on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:43AM (#22855321)
https://colornames.org/color/dabad0
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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by quickthrower2 on Monday April 13, 2020 @02:23AM (#22853608)
Maybe call them Coder”s Blue etc..
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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by gideon_b on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:49PM (#22873964)
#BADA55 - hex for some key lime pie in the web UI
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