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took me a while, but its working now: https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/#2F8F and https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/#884C

yeah that’s a more utilitarian approach mine is more about exploring and navigating the unicode space visually

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

though going through every comment to promote it feels a bit… unnecessary

Fair enough. I didn’t go for cultural or visual accuracy when naming it, I just wanted something loosely tied to characters / unicode, and the pun clicked for me. I still like it a lot.

The only way that I can think of to respond to that question is this: https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/data/fonts/fonts.css

done!

exactly

I’m a native French speaker, and “charcuterie” doesn’t really carry that negative meaning in everyday use. It’s very commonly used to mean cold cuts / prepared meats.

The butcher is un charcutier, and the shop is une boucherie. La charcuterie refers to the food itself, usually cured or prepared meats (pork, cooked, smoked, dried, etc.). So the name works the same way it does in English.

fixed

great idea, I think I will do both

should be less boxes now!

oh right, good catch

True, thanks for the feedback

It does

I use it to find icons I likr

Just discovered ColorPalette Pro by Ryan Feigenbaum: a synthesiser for colour. I like the music-hardware analogy.

the way its written is quite manual, but the results are pretty good! https://github.com/royalfig/color-palette-generator/blob/mai...

thanks!

congrats!

I build a lot of tools that generate colorpalettes and I wanted a wide range of nice-sounding names that feel evocative of the colors they represent. I see it as an API between a program and a human.

I started with about 1,600 names scraped from Wikipedia, but with only that many, there were a lot of redundancies and when you disallow duplicates, you end up with colors being labeled as “orange” even though they don’t actually look orange. On top of that many of the names were racist or at least questionable (so are many names on colornames.org)

Other large lists like the Pantone one, don't have a permissive license.

So for the past ten years or so, I’ve been collecting color names in a very unscientific way. It slowly turned into a hobby—something I often do on vacation, especially when I’m surrounded by unfamiliar places, dishes, or objects where color is used in unexpected ways.

Tools I made that benefit from using the names:

- https://meodai.github.io/poline/ - https://words.github.io/color-description/ - https://farbvelo.elastiq.ch/ - https://codepen.io/meodai/pen/PoaRgLm - https://parrot.color.pizza/ - https://meodai.github.io/rampensau/

And probably some that I forgot about...

changed the original: interacting with the cube will stop the spin

I originally made this about 8 years ago just for myself: to see where the color name list I maintain had gaps: https://github.com/meodai/color-names

As I learned more about color models, I kept adding different ones over time. The perceptual models helped me understand the “missing” areas much better.

Later, after building an API around the list (https://github.com/meodai/color-name-api ), I started including other lists with permissive licenses too.

Appreciate all the thoughts and feedback here. I’ve also changed it so the cube stops spinning once you interact with it.

No it does not colornames.org emerged after my color name list.

Id love to start one. Not sure in what format to store them to be future proof though.

oh Id love to add this to the tooling of the color names list. How did you figure out what the largest gap was?

I am the creator of the 3d thing that was shared. I am very interested in collaborating on something. Is the data you used for it accessible somewhere?

No they are separate lists. "All Color Names" comes from: https://github.com/meodai/color-names

thanks for brining that up. Its a fight I stoped fighting a long time ago...

I changed it: as soon as you interact with it, it stops spinning

Wonder no longer: https://codepen.io/meodai/full/zdgXJj/ Color distribution of Color-Names in various color models

Thanks for the feedback. For now you would have to do the conversion yourself, but I plan to store the names in a more absolute format like xyz…

The API provides plenty of lists that should fit your less ‘nonsensical’ needs.