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Oh car paints! good idea! PS: Saluki Bronze will be in teh next version
I mostly using it in my own tools so the its more then more a hex value. Its to convey something I can relay to... Sometimes palettes have very similar colors in it so having different names for it feels right.
If you read the text on the support/ donation page you might discover why. I collected and invented these names over the past 10 years. There is a github history to back that. As well as a public API etc… so as the text sais it would be a symbolic gesture to help to pay for the infrastructure. And it is more effective than adding a donation button everywhere, since I already collected more than the over the previous 10 years
yeah that’s a more utilitarian approach
mine is more about exploring and navigating the unicode space visually
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
though going through every comment to promote it feels a bit… unnecessary
Fair enough. I didn’t go for cultural or visual accuracy when naming it, I just wanted something loosely tied to characters / unicode, and the pun clicked for me. I still like it a lot.
I’m a native French speaker, and “charcuterie” doesn’t really carry that negative meaning in everyday use. It’s very commonly used to mean cold cuts / prepared meats.
The butcher is un charcutier, and the shop is une boucherie.
La charcuterie refers to the food itself, usually cured or prepared meats (pork, cooked, smoked, dried, etc.). So the name works the same way it does in English.
great idea, I think I will do both
should be less boxes now!
True, thanks for the feedback
I use it to find icons I likr
Posted by
meodai on Saturday November 22, 2025 @10:54AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://meodai.github.io/pro-color-harmonies/
Hi HN,I built a TypeScript library for generating color harmonies that prioritise human perception over simple math.Most color libraries generate harmonies using simple hue rotations in HSL or HSV (e.g., Complementary = Hue + 180°). While mathematically "correct," this often produces unbalanced results—yellows become muddy browns, and perceived lightness varies wildly between hues.Pro Color...
Posted by
meodai on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @04:16AM
from the colorpalette.pro dept.
I build a lot of tools that generate colorpalettes and I wanted a wide range of nice-sounding names that feel evocative of the colors they represent. I see it as an API between a program and a human.
I started with about 1,600 names scraped from Wikipedia, but with only that many, there were a lot of redundancies and when you disallow duplicates, you end up with colors being labeled as “orange” even though they don’t actually look orange. On top of that many of the names were racist or at least questionable (so are many names on colornames.org)
Other large lists like the Pantone one, don't have a permissive license.
So for the past ten years or so, I’ve been collecting color names in a very unscientific way. It slowly turned into a hobby—something I often do on vacation, especially when I’m surrounded by unfamiliar places, dishes, or objects where color is used in unexpected ways.
Tools I made that benefit from using the names:
- https://meodai.github.io/poline/
- https://words.github.io/color-description/
- https://farbvelo.elastiq.ch/
- https://codepen.io/meodai/pen/PoaRgLm
- https://parrot.color.pizza/
- https://meodai.github.io/rampensau/
And probably some that I forgot about...
changed the original: interacting with the cube will stop the spin
I originally made this about 8 years ago just for myself: to see where the color name list I maintain had gaps:
https://github.com/meodai/color-namesAs I learned more about color models, I kept adding different ones over time. The perceptual models helped me understand the “missing” areas much better.
Later, after building an API around the list (https://github.com/meodai/color-name-api
), I started including other lists with permissive licenses too.
Appreciate all the thoughts and feedback here. I’ve also changed it so the cube stops spinning once you interact with it.
No it does not colornames.org emerged after my color name list.
Id love to start one. Not sure in what format to store them to be future proof though.
oh Id love to add this to the tooling of the color names list. How did you figure out what the largest gap was?