Color namer

"Naming colors has never been this easy!" - Abraham Lincoln

A web app that provides a name for a color. EZPZ.

Key Features``

• Over 30,000 color names ⚡️
• Accepts both hex and rgb formats 🎨
• Color picker 🏹

Example

If you enter #fb8a70, you'll receive the name of SALMON NIGIRI along with the hex and rgb color representations, which would be #fb8a70 and rgb(251, 138, 112), respectively.

You might be asking yourself, "What is SALMON NIGIRI"?

My answer: " Who the hell knows? 🤷‍"

Accepted Color formats:

• hex with hash (e.g. #323 or #332233)
• hex without hash (e.g. 323 or 332233)
• rgb (e.g. rgb(103, 33, 158))
• supported CSS color names (e.g. red)

Dependencies

• nearest-color - Utility to find nearest matching color
• tinycolor2 - Color manipulation and conversion
• color-names - List of 15,000+ color names accessible through their API
• jscolor-picker - A color picker used when the browser doesn't support the native color picker display with input[type='color']

Inspirations + Contributions

• David Aerne - Maintains the API for all the color names and has even contributed to the web app itself!
• Name That Color - I've used this tool a lot and is the original inspiration for this project
• David A.'s CodePen - I actually used a good deal of his code in this app with a few changes to the functionality and a different look
• "Sass Color Variables That Don't Suck" - Landon Schropp - This article outlines how I follow naming variables in my code and it requires many different names for colors, which is what motivated me to build this