Results of XKCD Color Survey

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60 points·mikeknoop··10 comments

Fascinating and useful in a practical manner. (I process color words a lot better than I do either hex values or 2D/3D color pickers. Control-F, evergreen. Yay.)

The 'cube faces' map (http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_450.png ) is quite useful. Data, large and huge image links included in post.

I see no reason for the qualms in putting it in the shop as a poster. (I also contributed a few answers.)

P.S. A few years ago, Tim Bray took a whack at slicing through the RGB color cube: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/19/RGBPlane

"Naming" colours is really a lot harder than it sounds. As the differences between colours become less significant, it gets really difficult.

As an interesting follow-up - this is a 'Munsell Hue Test', the aim is to order the colours by hue: http://spectralcolor.com/game/huetest_kiosk

Thanks for the reminder - that 'Munsell Hue Test' is both interesting and fairly hard. I think I've seen discussed (mostly scores ;-) at Reddit, http://www.reddit.com/domain/spectralcolor.com

"A couple dozen people embedded SQL ‘drop table’ statements in the color names. Nice try, kids." hehehe..

I'm surprised that men and women appear to largely have the same range of name for colors - certainly not what society has led me to believe.

However, I would have liked to see the percentage of each gender who participated in the survey.

> There were about 40,000 women and 100,000 men in the main data

From the color names page

Thanks. I can't believe I missed that.

This is both hilarious and really interesting. I cannot stop laughing about the one someone named 'velociraptor cloaca'.

"I weep for my gender." - yeah me to.

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