#c0ffee is the color

[vmarquet]

I'm surprised no one yet has mentionned the famous stack overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th....

TLDR; For legacy reasons, some words produce valid colors even if they don't respect the standard color formats. For example, "chucknorris" produces red.

[eriknstr]

Someone should make a list of all words and common phrases that result in a color different from #000000 and then go through them all and pick out the interesting ones.

By the way I didn't see any mention of max length. Is there a limitiation to the length of the color string?

Bonus question: What color would the complete works of Shakespeare be? Take all of his scene play manuscripts found on Project Gutenberg but excluding duplicates if any, sort them in the order they were originally published and concatenate into a single string.

[lol768]

Got to admit I was hoping it'd be a coffee-ish colour before I sorta parsed the colour in my head and realised it was mostly green.

With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up. Can't say I can think of many hugely practical uses for this, but it's kinda neat!

[myth_buster]

Coffee beans before roasting are infact "Green"[0] and are referred as green coffee. The roasting process makes it brown.darker.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_roasting#Roasts

[asmosoinio]

I also plan to use 54FE57 somewhere. Have to do that.

Though with the numbers in the beginning it's not as readable as e.g. BADA55.

[nsomaru]

Hmm. I've always wanted to parse colours in my head.

How do you do that?

[zakk]

> Got to admit I was hoping it'd be a coffee-ish colour before I sorta parsed the colour in my head and realised it was mostly green.

#ACE71C is quite acetic, on the other hand.

[kngl]

there is also #F1A5C0 / FIASCO

[deepakb358]

check www.sevacoffee.com - start with raw green beans and roast, grind & brew every cup to make the ultimate cup of coffee.

[vacri]

> With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up.

Unfortunately 'secede' is blue rather than gray...

[nailer]

Oh neat:

#F0E71D

is the colour of asafoetida: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=asafoetida&source=lnms&tbm...

And #C0C0A5 is cocoa.

For fitness studio folks who are into hex (of which there are obviously billions) #F17 (bright pink) would be popular too.

[alikoneko]

#B0BCA7 is also the color of a bobcat.

[hinkley]

It's like onomatopoeia, but with colors instead of sounds.

[atemerev]

#c0fefe, you wanted to say.

[victormustar]

came here with my covfefe joke, yours is better

[tkyjonathan]

That looks like covfefe

[thebouv]

Since #BADA55 keeps coming up:

http://bada55.io/

[semi-extrinsic]

There's one colour standing out, where the hex doesn't match the word: Rebeccapurple (#663399) was named in memory of Eric Meyer's daughter.

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/

[pilaf]

> #111135 -> LILIES

That's really stretching it.

[styfle]

:+1: This site is better than the OP because it has a voting system

[hayleox]

SAFEST is a decent green and ACIDIC is a decent red -- probably going to use these instead of #f00 and #0f0 next time I need success/failure color codes for some hastily-made web thing.

[madeofpalk]

flatuicolors.com is in my bookmark bar for good, quick colours.

[turkeywelder]

It's missing Badass: #b4da55. Lovely green colour :)

[K2L8M11N2]

Or just simply #bada55

[mrspeaker]

This is great, but I'm not a fan of the "7 looks like a T"... my brain can't make that work. I request an "Ice T" mode that does this:

    Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".wrap > div"))
      .filter(n => n.getAttribute("name").includes("t"))
      .forEach(n => n.parentNode.removeChild(n));

[wingerlang]

You could just press "strict" like the instructions says.

[madcaptenor]

#B00B00 is the color of blood.

[pavement]

HN feature request: three character hex code support for topcolor.

Bonus points: named color support for valid CSS colors, such as dodgerblue.

[chrisbennet]

It's supported and it appears in your HN profile once you have a certain karma. The field is called "topcolor".

[forgot-my-pw]

Isn't it just easier to memorize HTML color names? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#HTML_color_names

[jaclaz]

The idea is nice, but (as a suggestion) I would add a drop down to "strict" where you can tick whether to include 0 (zero) and 1 (one) as respectively O and I, which is what everyone would likely read as well as - maybe - 5=S while the 1 as L (as in 1337) and the 7=T are far less intuitive. To give anyone freedom of choice maybe adding a "selectively strict" button with ticks for each leet letter would be ideal (as an example I cannot read the 2 as R as it is used on http://bada55.io/ ).

[adolph]

The yellow fiesta is similar to the yellow tone of the dishes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_(dinnerware)

[Etheryte]

It makes me both happy and uncomfortable that #dab and #dabbed are valid colors.

[TrickyRick]

Christian Moms Against #dab

[mxfh]

I always paint my computer chassis' front panel in drab #facade.

[rpastuszak]

ha! I'm using it for most of the placeholder images http://placehold.it/300/facade/ffffff&text=hello:-%7D

[boozelclark]

I wonder if they intentionally left out FAECE5? A brownish color

[JoshTriplett]

Nice.

One oddity: for some reason, the site's CSS makes text selection highlights invisible. If you select text, the selection looks identical to unselected text, though copy/paste still works.

Also, the color boxes appear to be editable text areas: if you click on one, you can backspace or Ctrl-U and the text of the color vanishes, until you hover/unhover it again and the text gets reset (because of the 1337/LEET translation going on with hover/unhover).

[vegardx]

They seem to have intentionally done this, by setting ::selection to transparent. I don't understand why some people think this is a good ideal, for colorblind people this is a real nuisance.

[merraksh]

There's "tic", "toe", but not "tac". I guess we need a "even less strict" option.

[JoshTriplett]

That likely has less to do with strictness of number/letter substitutions and more to do with "tac" not appearing in the dictionary (unlike "tic" and "toe").

[ajacksified]

Nice - I built something similar a few years ago, mostly to mess around with CSS columns (http://thejacklawson.com/csswords/). I only used a regex over the system dictionary, so it doesn't include a lot of what it probably could.

[waynecochran]

You should allow for an alpha-channel then you have two more letters and can do the Java Class file magic number #CAFEBABE.