Text2Color matches a shade to your text description

[boingboing]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/03/text2color-matches-a-shade-to-your-text-description.html

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[Mel_J]

Contributed by Popkin

[atteSmythe]

Missing a “go viral” function like Wordle has - the ability to easily share what you got as a color swatch. But the background changes, so you can at least crop a screen cap

[euansmith]

[Rev.Veggie.Spam]

The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel.

[ReverendLoki]

[bobsyeruncle666]

“warm pee” has a pleasantly orangey-yellow hue: #E6B800

It changes if I try capitalizing a few letters or even if I try to reproduce the original term. I have the design expertise and creativity of a 4-year-old. What was the thinking here? I got nothing; let’s run with that. Sue me.

No one needs a colour pic, do they? Anyone looking to redecorate a dive bar?

[allenk]

The xkcd color survey asked “what do you call this color? And are you male or female?” Women contributed waaaaaay more different color names than men did. One of the only colors that skewed male was “goblin green”.

[anon87143080]