Every Color Has A Name

If you are colorblind, you may be interested in the http://www.colblindor.com/color-name-hue/ app by Daniel Fluck.

Daniel is colorblind and contacted me to help him build an app that would let colorblind users identify the base hue for any RGB color. While my app gives fancy names like "Amethyst Smoke" and "Cobalt" it isn't helpful to users with colorblindness. Daniel's app says the base hue is "Violet" and "Blue." What I learnt about colorblindness is that it's not always absolute. You can have Tritanomaly (blue-weakness) where everything looks just a bit off, not completely red/green. See here: http://www.colblindor.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/

A comprehensive app of this kind would be really interesting. Like if it supported X color names, Windows color names, web color names (from very generic 16 "web-safe" color names to more specific like color names supported by Firefox 3.0), and translation features:

"What's the equivalent of a red-hued version of color named X of palette A in palette B?"

Would be great to only have to learn one color name set in detail and then have access to pretty much every color name in every system (of course it would support approximation too).

more source material http://blog.doloreslabs.com/topics/colors/

Not quite every see Disco 69165A, 691650 many others

It's a clever idea though, kind of like colr.org

I'm sure this is honest, but it really strikes me as a random name generator attached to interpolations between the standard 16 colors :).