Color Name & Hue
It is always a problem for me to assign a certain color to a main hue. If you struggle also with this because of your color blindness, Color Name & Hue might help you. Try it out.
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With this little tool you can either enter RGB (Red-Green-Blue) values, HSB (Hue-Saturation-Brightness) numbers or a hexadecimal code for a color, to find its closest match of a named color and its corresponding hue. It is also possible to just use the sliders to see how color hues are changing. The list of colors comprises 1640 different color names extracted from several sources on the web.
The color name is matched to one of the following main color hues: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Brown, Black, Grey, and White.
I always wanted to have such a tool because it's fascinating for me to see matching color hues of colors I just can't categorize. Finally I was inspired by Chirag Mehta and his tool Name that Color. Many thanks to him. Color Name & Hue is just a little extension to his work. But nevertheless it took me a lot of time to match all those colors to their corresponding main color hues.
Thanks
- Chirag Mehta for Name that Color and letting us use his JavaScript code.
- John Dyer for his Photoshop like JavaScript Color Picker
- My wife. She has my not-colorblind eyes.
I tried to check the color hues as good as possible. Of course one can argue about certain colors and their main hue. So please be a little bit generous when using this tool and don't rely on it, specially for print colors. If you find some colors which are definitely assigned to the wrong hue just add a remark in the comments section and I will correct it in the list of colors.
January 11th, 2008 at 22:18
That’s awesome. Great work!
January 14th, 2008 at 14:39
Daniel, this is great for colorblinds, and not only !
I was thinking about some similar tool to, but only for Windows OS. You did a much better job having it available online, so anyone can use it. I really apreciate. In fact, I might write a post in romanian on my colorblindness related blog pointing to this tool.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:12
wow, great tool. i think its interesting that more men than women are colorblind. And i was looking over some other comments and one thing i know about cats is that are NOT colorblind. they can see color but only close up. everything far away is in black and white. interesting huh. thanks for the wonderful too.
March 7th, 2008 at 6:23
I guess this doesn’t work with Firefox.
Nothing changes and only a pale blue ever shows up in the large square. No “sliders” are visible.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:59
Clay, thanks for the hint. I uploaded a different file with the same name which caused the problems. It should be working now again.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:20
Hi, I’m red-blind but your program classes #874300 as Olive (Hue=Green). That’s definitely wrong.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:52
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April 21st, 2008 at 4:00
I have tried to figure out the name of my color on my website for days and days. You have solved my problem. Thank you!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:57
This is awesome. Works like a charm. I was creating few colorful themes for one of my application and you have solved a big problem.
Thanks a ton!!! gud work.
May 5th, 2008 at 15:33
Doesn’t work very well. HSB 50 100 80 is rated as green but is clearly a yellow-tone. Its even nearly orange.
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May 21st, 2008 at 18:34
That is a great tool! Another one that might be helpful is this color thesaurus: http://www.hp.com/idealab/us/en/colorimage.html. How it works is you type the name of a color into the tool and it give you other names and color swatches that are similar and opposite.
May 26th, 2008 at 18:24
D69704 (Gamboge) is much more of an Orage hue than a Yellow one.
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