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I tried vermilion and got nothing, so googled to check my spelling was correct and came across Wikipedia colour descriptions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion

You might wish to make the corpus self-expanding, and for a given word do Wikipedia (or other source) lookups to see whether structured information on the colour exists.

There are whole lists of colours on there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors:_A%E2%80%93F

Of course, it would require the addition of attribution for wherever you obtained the data.

Oh, and welcome to subjectivity... battleship grey, it's changed over the years but the commonly accepted one is the WW2 era grey which featured a touch more blue and is RAL 7031 ( http://www.ralcolor.com/ - which btw, is another source ).

PS: And it doesn't know the difference between blood and dried blood.

> You might wish to make the corpus self-expanding, and for a given word do Wikipedia (or other source) lookups to see whether structured information on the colour exists.

One interesting method would be to google image search the keyword, and see if the focus of the majority of the images (center of image maybe?) have the same color and pick that

Thanks, this is really helpful. Looks like I'll be adding a lot of new filters.

It's not just a simple color mixer; it's actually a "filter compositing engine". I write rules for each keyword by hand, currently. It gives me more control over how different words affect the final color.

(I'll add a rule for dried blood)

It gets "vermillion" which I assumed was the UK spelling, but my spell-checker disagrees.

Incidentally, I tried the other Pokemon cities, and it only gets 3 out of 8 (Cerulean, Fuchsia and Vermillion[sic]).

You might also want to have a look at the file /etc/X11/rgb.txt

It doesn't know chartreuse. Well, OK, but it doesn't know lime or lemon either.

aqua, no aquamarine.

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