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The link allcaps provided in the comment is a funny explanation why. Someone else already named 48 hues (although the hue name "Bright Green" would be confusing as Bright is already used as a value/saturation name and Bright Green is already a named color of the system), however, there's also 26 more value/saturation combinations to name.Įdit: Here is the current list of trusted names:ġ) There are no standard list of names of colors. (note: the number of saturations available for a specific brightness varies depending on the brightness)Įdit: Here's a saturation/value chart of colors being converted to color names and back to canonical colors, in "colorname1" and "colorname2":Įdit: Doubling the resolution of this color naming system is an interesting challenge. I added the prefixes "Extra-" and "Semi-" (analogous to the font weights "Extralight", "Semilight", "Semibold", "Extrabold") to interpolate between #BLACK/Dark/Bright and Bright/Pale/#WHITE and similarly for the grays, and the remaining two are named "Faded" and "Weak" inspired by the 6×6×6 RGB colorcube naming system from. The graph of all color names generated by "color name 2" is: I deliberately avoided using the term "light" (except for "Light Gray") as it might lead to confusion as "light green" could as well mean the Bright Green to distinguish it from "green" which sometimes means the Dark Green, or it could mean the Pale Green when thinking in HSL terms. The graph of all color names generated by "color name 1" is: In total, the "color name 1" method can generate 45 unique color names, while "color name 2" can generate 249 unique color names. is a color namer based on this principle.
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A hue name combined with a value+saturation name gives the full HSV information and allows the color to be decoded. What no one seems to list however is names for values and saturations. The more you mix the colors the harder it is for the human eye to detect those differences.Īt there's a column named "Quaternary CMY" that lists 24 hue names. The tertiary colors for the RGB and CMY sets are azure (cyan + blue), violet (blue + magenta), rose (magenta + red), orange (red + yellow), chartreuse (yellow + green), and spring green (green + cyan).Īnother group of tertiary colors can be created by mixing secondary colors: the quaternary colors, the names for the twelve quaternary colors are more variable, if they exist at all, though indigo and scarlet are standard for blue–violet and red–vermilion.įrom the mix of the previous colors we get quinary colors, which are, roughly, varying shades of gray, this is way there are no specific names beyond the tertiary colors. Note, this magenta is not quite the same as that found in the CMY color set. For example with the traditional primary and secondary colors our tertiary colors would be vermilion (red + orange), amber (yellow + orange), chartreuse (yellow + green), teal (blue + green), violet (blue + purple), and magenta (red + purple). Tertiary colors are created by combining adjacent primary and secondary colors. What lies beyond primary and secondary colors?