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Name that Color

Click & drag over the Color Wheel to make a color

Your Color:

Outer box: Your selected color. Inner box: Actual color of closest match.

Being a typical guy, I have no clue what the colors Lavender and Mauve look like. You can show me Indigo and I won't know if it's more like Violet or Purple. So I made this little app where you can create a color on the screen (or copy-paste CSS hex# color) and find out the name of the closest matching color.
You can also select from the dropdown list of 1500+ colors and then play around. Here's an improved version of this tool made by Daniel Flueck, Color Name & Hue that is useful especially for colorblind folks.
The color names in this list were found via Wikipedia, Crayola, and Color-Name Dictionaries like Resene. I removed duplicates and manually edited the list for consistency.
This tool is simply for fun and personal use. Don't send off that marketing brochure to printers based on this.

Download or directly include the free Name the Color JavaScript library by Chirag Mehta.
Open-source JavaScript Code - lazily released under Creative Commons License 2.5.
Example: Daniel Flueck's Color Name & Hue.

Developer: Chirag Mehta, 16 Aug. 2007 (Last update: 3 Sep. 2007)
This text, algorithm, and design is copyrighted to Chirag Mehta, 2001.
The Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in is copyrighted to Steven Wittens, 2007.
The Resene RGB Values List is copyrighted to Resene Paints Ltd, 2001.
For reproduction / copyright information contact me.