Geeky Colour Question

[andrewducker]

Can anyone point me at a resource which will take an RGB value and tell me the nearest 'name' to it?  I can find numerous colour charts with names and what the corresponding colour values are, but I want to go the other way round...

Comments

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

http://www.easyrgb.com/matching.php type of thing?

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I seem to recall Photoshop doing that.

[andrewducker]

Exactly that kind of thing.

Which merely told me that there was no name for the colour my shirt is.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

It's a shame that that engine doesn't do Pantone shades.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Zero the lower four bits per RGB, perhaps?

Oh, and what are the numbers, or is that too personal? ;-)

[andrewducker]

Go about three entries down and you'll find me in a shirt. If you can solve the argument of "what colour is that shirt?" you win 17 coolness points.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Dude. Its purple.

[andrewducker]

That's what _I_ said. And was then contradicted by someone saying it was red.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Okay, the nearest named RGB color is brown or possibly saddle brown.

I used the eyedropper in Fireworks to find the average RBG value over a few different areas and then this to find the nearest named colour.

You'll be pleased to here that the sofa you are sitting on and the blanket next to you are also brown. Your face is rosybrown. Finally, according to my definitive findings, your hair is darkslategrey.

So that wraps that one up(!)

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

It's wine...

http://www.boneidol.co.uk/menstshirt05.html (Scroll down.)

http://www.alamostyles.com/Alamo/WomensWear/Square_Dance_Outfits.aspx

And I actually knew this! Though I couldn't find a colour-chart using it. (Just lots of HTML charts, which don't.) "colours wine" in Google-images turns up suitable hits though.