Topic: The color of words

I was wondering how many English words match hex colors and what colors they would make. Anyway, here's what I came up with:



Any other words I missed, or perhaps words in other languages, such as German?

deeded

c0ffee

I can't think of any German ones and the dictionary doesn't list any... but the English one has these other two:

beaded
decaff

Sorry, poi, leetspeak doesn't count. If it was, there probably would be tons of words we could use.

But just in case you're wondering what color it is:

Moral: English(ish) words make for easter-egg girly-man colors.

^^ Too funny

Yep, it seems pastel is the predominant shade of English Hexaguistics... um... Hexioms? Hexalect?

(Edited by White Hawk on 04-10-2007 17:29)

Well, to be fair, words can only contain the upper 6 of the hex sequence. So of course they're gonna contain a lot of lighter shades.


"Yes, my name is Ste3ve. The 3 is silent."

-steve

English is obviously a pastel language. =)

Your pal, -doc-

as far as I know, the higher range which is designated by letters will still be the same range of color no matter what language you make words of them in

so... I guess we should form "compound" words and substract them...

decaff - facade = ...

1BFFDF


Justice 4 Pat Richard

What would be more interesting, I think, would be to spread the letters out evenly over the spectrum. That is, you've got 256 values for red, green, and blue, right? Well, there are 26 letters in the English alphabet. That's almost ten per letter--if we multiply the position of the letter in the alphabet by ten (and make "z" 255) then every three letters will form a color:

CAT = 1E0AC8 (a very lovely blue)
DOG = 289646 (looks like the green background on which film ratings are shown)
SIT = BE5AC8 (fabulous!)

Longer words or sentences would simply be a series of colors (spaces and leftover values are 00):

Welcome to the Asylum = E63278, 1E9682, 3200C8, 9600C8, 503200, 0ABEFA, 78D282



Yeah, it's not nearly as nifty as having letters spell out words, but it' a step up for those not secure enough in their masculinity to deal with pastels.

Suho1004: I can see through your evil plan to hinder people's masculinity. The "Welcome to the Asylum" starts with a very masculine pink

Anyway, following your 10 shades per position in the alphabet, I wonder what the two 3 letters color keyword ( from SVG ) look like:

red: b43228 ( a dark-brownish red )
tan: c80a8c ( a medium magenta )

Indeed it is a masculine pink! Never have I seen a pink that makes me want to suddenly crush beer cans on my forehead like this one!

Or something to that effect...

Another idea is to use base conversion from base 36 (0-9,A-Z) to base 16 (0-9,A-F).

That leaves you with numbers rangingas high as 9ZLDR, or it's nearest alpha equivilant, ZLDR, which is a maximum colour range in hex of 1956FF. The English language, considered as base 36, contains very low levels of red. Mind you, it's a damn long list of words.

abbe, Adam, afar, Aida, aide, ajar, alai, Alan, alan, alba, babe, Bach, back, bade, bead, beak, beam, bean, bear, beck, bibb, bide, blab, CACM, cede, had, Chao, chap, char, clad, clam, clan, clap, Dada, Dade, dead, eaf, deal, dean, dear, deck, dial, dice, dick, Dido, each, Egan, elan, Elba, face, fade, fear, fide, flag, flak, flam, flap, gear, gibe, glad, Haag, hack, head, heal, heap, hear, Hebe, heck, hick, hide, jack, JACM, jade, jean, jibe, khan, kick, Klan, lace, lack, lead, leaf, leak, lean, leap, Lear, liar, lice, lick, mace, Mach, mack, made, mead, meal, mean, mica, mice, NCAA, NCAR, Neal, neap, near, neck, nice, nick, Olaf, pace, pack, peak, peal, pear, peck, pica, pick, plan, race, rack, read, real, ream, reap, rear, reck, Rica, rice, rich, rick, Rico, ride, sack, scab, scam, scan, scar, seal, seam, Sean, sear, shad, shag, shah, sham, sial, SIAM, Sian, sick, side, slab, slag, slam, slap, tack, teal, team, tear, tech, Thai, than, tick, tide, Ulan, vade, veal, Veda, vial, vice, Vida, vide, wack, Waco, wade, wadi, weak, weal, wean, wear, Webb, WECo, wham, wick, wide, yeah, year, zeal

Take your pick. That's just from the base Linux dict/words.


Justice 4 Pat Richard

Edit: Okay, I got unlazy, and made it into an inline list

(Edited by Skaarjj on 04-14-2007 08:26)

LOL - I love the way you listed them vertically, just in case we didn't believe it was a long list.

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I listed them vertically for two reasons:

1. That's how they came out on my terminal; and
2. I'm too bone lazy to convert it to an inline list.


Justice 4 Pat Richard

It's like we're on the cusp of something truly important here, like a key to unlocking the secrets of the universe itself!

Or maybe just the key to the front door of the Asylum...

I never knew somebody would post a long list of words on the forums... but we're all crazy people, so I guess I should have seen it coming.

quote:

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Blaise said:

Or maybe just the key to the front door of the Asylum...

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That's something important! It's like receiving a gift from Doc himself! After all, this is an asylum...

This is the freak'n funniest thread ever. I just keep laughing.

yes, my thought as I obtained the list of words was, "Everyone stand back! I know Regular Expressions!"

Edit: and now, "stand further back! I know awk!"


Justice 4 Pat Richard

(Edited by Skaarjj on 04-14-2007 08:27)

I reckon you should be converting these into notes, too. I have a theory that it's the right combination of notes that opens the big gate out front... O.o

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Incidentally the primary antagonist in my novel speaks in colours (he's a squid), so this could turn out very useful. Very useful indeed.

*laughs like Morbo, scribbles in notepad

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