> [!tldr] A cross section of words we use and the colors they represent ## THE source for this Unlike almost any other note I have, this topic was perfectly and exhaustively and hilariously covered by one particular source that I cannot recommend highly enough. The graphic below is from [this article by Randall Munroe of XKCD fame](https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/). Which means this note is also one of the ones with a [[Relevant XKCD]]: ![[IMG_8135.png]] The short story of this is that these color names were gathered from a survey of readers who were presented with various [[RGB]] color combos and asked to name them. Most common names given (in no order): 1. Red 2. Orange 3. Brown 4. Maroon 5. Gold 6. Mustard 7. Yellow 8. Light green 9. Olive 10. Green 11. Dark green 12. Dark brown 13. Black 14. Teal 15. Cyan 16. Sky blue 17. Light blue 18. Dark teal 19. Blue 20. Dark blue 21. Navy blue 22. Dark purple 23. Purple 24. Magenta 25. Pink ## Color Breakdown per an [[Large Language Models|LLMs]] This task struck me as something AI might be good at. So I prompted Gemini to consider only the `hue` segment of the [[HSL]] color space and split it into different segments with various levels of granularity. ```json { "Red": { "min": 352, "max": 10 }, "Vermilion": { "min": 10, "max": 22 }, "Orange": { "min": 22, "max": 33 }, "Amber": { "min": 33, "max": 43 }, "Gold": { "min": 43, "max": 54 }, "Yellow": { "min": 54, "max": 65 }, "Lime": { "min": 65, "max": 78 }, "Chartreuse": { "min": 78, "max": 95 }, "Green": { "min": 95, "max": 145 }, "Emerald": { "min": 145, "max": 165 }, "Cyan": { "min": 165, "max": 185 }, "Cerulean": { "min": 185, "max": 205 }, "Blue": { "min": 205, "max": 235 }, "Sapphire": { "min": 235, "max": 255 }, "Indigo": { "min": 255, "max": 280 }, "Violet": { "min": 280, "max": 305 }, "Magenta": { "min": 305, "max": 330 }, "Crimson": { "min": 330, "max": 352 } } ``` **** # More ## Source - https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ - Gemini for the part LLM-sourced part