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Comment by heleninboodler | Hacker News Reader

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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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.

https://colornames.org/color/dabad0

Maybe call them Coder”s Blue etc..

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

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