<div dir="auto">As James pointed out, there is very less color names than all possible hex colors. There are in total 256*256*256 different RGB colors combinations and it's silly if someone starts to assign them names. Even many colors can be formed by a range of RGB combinations which cannot be distinguished. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maybe we can help more if you could tell for what purpose it's required. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">Amaan </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 1, 2018 1:30 AM, "Sean DALY" <<a href="mailto:sdaly.be@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdaly.be@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>One possible approach could be to model a hex-name lookup table such as on this page [1], rounding to the nearest named color. Some ideas are here [2].</div><div><br></div><div><div>Sean</div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div>1. <a href="https://imagemagick.org/script/color.php" target="_blank">https://imagemagick.org/<wbr>script/color.php</a></div><div>2. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38923744/how-to-map-a-range-of-hex-values-to-a-color" target="_blank">https://stackoverflow.com/<wbr>questions/38923744/how-to-map-<wbr>a-range-of-hex-values-to-a-<wbr>color</a></div><div><br></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 4:47 PM Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Not a very easy task. I have some code that could get you a Munsell representation of the color (the hue designation as well as its lightness and vividness, but you'd still need to determine that dark orange == brown, etc.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 4:17 PM Joel Arrey <<a href="mailto:joeloedinho@gmail.com" target="_blank">joeloedinho@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br></div>
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