Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

You mean identical? Seems like OP likely got inspired by your page :)

Since yours hold a lot more uncommon words (by virtue of simply having many more words) a feature, if you are in the mood for updating, could be to sort by word frequency along with alphabetical sorting.

yours lacks #B00B1E though.

Nice, hexwords only has 1000 words, compared to your 3500

Feature idea for you and OP: add the visual swatch of color which the hex color represents. Makes it much more meaningful

#1C1E57 (ICIEST) is dark blue, which could hold true in certain contexts!

#DEBA65 (DEBAGS) is brown, much like de color of de bags made of de paper.

And on a related and exceptionally juvenile note, it should be very possible - and frankly obligatory, for those in fashion tech companies reading this - to create and sell a #B00B1E colored bra.

#D0661E - a nice brown doggie.

#CA771E - brown cattle.

#C10ACA - a purple cloaca.

#C017A1 - coital, similarly purplish pink.

Lots of blues and greens starting with #5EA... (Sea...). #5EABED (Seabed), #5EABEE (Seabee), #5EAD06 (Seadog) and #5EA by itself.

(I used https://hex-colours.netlify.app/, which looks like it was the original from another comment, and allows you to search pieces of words.)

#C0A575 (coasts) is a sandy-brown beach color.

#6E0DE5 (geodes) definitely has that deep purple color you think of.

And my favorite, #5A6E57 (sagest) is about as close to the color sage as you can get.

#B00B00 (dark red) was my favorite

Good question. I thought of an algorithm to find the hex word colors that most closely match the color they represent...

Basically: get the color of the _word_ by doing an image search and extracting the dominant color from the first image result. Then compare that color to the hex color (in CIELAB color space) to get the color difference. Track the hex words with lowest difference.

Here's a rough impl in Python:

  import sys
  import os
  import heapq
  
  import requests
  from google.cloud import vision
  
  from colormath.color_objects import sRGBColor, LabColor
  from colormath.color_conversions import convert_color
  from colormath.color_diff import delta_e_cie2000
  
  from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
  
  def download_image_for_query(query):
      search_key = os.getenv("GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ENGINE_KEY")
      search_engine_id = os.getenv("GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ENGINE_ID")
      resp = requests.get(
          f"https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key={search_key}&cx={search_engine_id}&q={query}&searchType=image"
      )
      img_url = resp.json()["items"][0]["link"]
      img_content = requests.get(img_url).content
      return img_content
  
  def dominant_rgb_colors(image_content, num_colors=1):
      vision_client = vision.ImageAnnotatorClient()
      image = vision.Image(content=image_content)
      response = vision_client.annotate_image({"image": image})
      return [
          (int(c.color.red), int(c.color.green), int(c.color.blue))
          for c in response.image_properties_annotation.dominant_colors.colors
      ][:num_colors]
  
  # class to store hex word and calculate the difference from "true" image, based on image search
  class HeapibleHexWord:
      def generate_rgb_version(self):
          return tuple(int(self.hex_version.lstrip("#")[i:i+2], 16) for i in (0, 2, 4))
          
      def __init__(self, hex_version, english_version):
          self.hex_version = hex_version
          self.english_version = english_version
          self.rgb_version = self.generate_rgb_version()
          self.delta_from_true = float("inf")
          
      def calculate_delta_from_true(self):
          true_rgb = sRGBColor(*self.rgb_version)
          query = self.english_version
          img_content = download_image_for_query(query)
          test_rgb = sRGBColor(*dominant_rgb_colors(img_content)[0])
         
          # via http://hanzratech.in/2015/01/16/color-difference-between-2-colors-using-python.html
          delta = delta_e_cie2000(
              convert_color(true_rgb, LabColor),
              convert_color(test_rgb, LabColor)
          )
          self.delta_from_true = delta
          
      def __lt__(self, other):
          return self.delta_from_true < other.delta_from_true
  
  # scrape words from hexwords site
  hexwords_url = 'https://hexwords.netlify.app/'
  
  hexwords_page = requests.get(hexwords_url)
  soup = BeautifulSoup(hexwords_page.text, 'html.parser')
  
  buttons = soup.find_all('button', class_='svelte-1m9ptdb')
  
  hex_words = []
  for button in buttons:
      if button.text == '':
          continue
      hex_version, _, english_version = button.text.split("\n")
      hex_words.append((hex_version, english_version.replace("(", "").replace(")", "")))
  
  # iterate over the hex words, calculating the color diff between the word's hex
  # color and the "true" color based on image search
  
  hex_words_heap = []
  heapq.heapify(hex_words_heap)
  
  NUM_WORDS = 10 # looks like throttled at some point
  
  for i, hex_word in enumerate(hex_words[:NUM_WORDS]):
      print(f"working on {i}: {hex_word}")
      heapible_hex_word = HeapibleHexWord(*hex_word)
      heapible_hex_word.calculate_delta_from_true()
      heapq.heappush(hex_words_heap, heapible_hex_word)
  
  # popping from the min heap yields hexwords with smallers difference from true color
  heapq.heappop(hex_words_heap).english_version

A couple more I spotted:

#ACAC1A is a shade of green and Acacia is a type of tree.

#57061E (stogie) is dark brown, and a stogie is a cigar.

#CABB1E is kind of like a taxicab yellow

#A55E55 (asses) is brown. Oh... wait.

#AC1D1C is red, just like its PH test- that was the most satisfying one to me at first glance.

maybe #5EABED, which is a shade of blue?

Kind of a stretch, but #B05535 (bosses) and #BE57ED (bested) are both sort of purplish colors that looter games like Borderlands sometimes use for "pretty rare, but not unique" items (which would typically be dropped by a boss monsters when you defeat them).

How many colors do you typically identify or would be willing to accept? Somewhere between 10 and 25 would be sufficient… not every word will have a color association, but many will have more than one.

I think you need to be pretty strict to not find a match after 50 words.

#ACCE55 is green and #F1A5C0 is pinkish red, great colors for a login prompt

5EABED (a blue) and B00B00 (blood red) were the best matches I found

Similar things in a number's value v/s its number of characters I think is called True Number, & only 4 is a true number like 4 value & FOUR has exact 4 letters.

My children definitely have clothes in colors close to #BAB1E5. #B00B00 kind of looks like blood.

A bit of a stretch, but I remarked upon #ACE71C (acetic), which is an oily, vinegary green

SEABED - blue CASSIS - purplish pink berry color

#C0C0A5 (COCOAS) Is brown

#DEAD set (four with alpha)

I was thinking #000 or #0FF

Yeah B16B00B5 and CAFEBABE are 2 of my favorite funnier ones Ive used a bunch of times. They make for more interesting placeholder values than "foo" and "bar" anyway.

I remember seeing 0xdeadbeef for the first time in dbx, which was my first experience with seeing uninitialized memory - was really surprised to not see it in the list on the website, since it's rgb+o (red/green/blue + opacity).

Disappointed to see that C#'s counterpart to Java's 0xCAFEBABE is missing: 0xBADDECAF /s

wow. they're ugly, but that's awesome they map to green and red.

Isn't LEET === 1337 pretty standard?

But then how am I supposed to turn a slur like #FA6607 into a nice (might I say fruity) shade of orange?

I'd like to have filters to play with different levels of substitution. Only alpha, only 3 -> e, etc.

2->Z as well. I've been a h4x0r for 25+ years and "21663D" looks nothing like "zigged" to me.

i agree, 9 would be better suited as G

#BADA55 is skin color of kerbals from KSP

It's worth pointing out that they are slurs in the U.S., not globally. One is a type of meatball where I'm from.

For the curious, I think they mean decimal values 16408693 and 16410119. Which have other archaic meanings but their primary modern meanings are a slur. 16410349 is apparently British slang for exhausted, so maybe gets a pass?

@Godel -- look!

It absolutely does:

https://i.postimg.cc/wg8nrTwj/hexwords-firefox.jpg

works for me without issues, firefox 101

Yeah, it's a prime example of a sisyphean task. Language is too varied and fluid, and the internet is far too juvenile to be censored for any length of time (not a dig, but you try telling reddit they can't say slurs anymore).

Includes longer words to define the alpha (transparency) channnel

https://imgur.com/a/L3pBpKq

Second sentence escalated quickly.

Since the raison d'être of this project seems to be spelling ridiculous things out of hex colors, I think it would lose a lot of its appeal with such a filter.

I understand a lot of those, but why is "beaver cleaver" on the list? I could see how it might be used in a dirty way, but that can't be the most common way it's used, right?

Or better yet, they could ignore this suggestion entirely!