D3 - Languages and Color

[doleson]

http://blog.crowdflower.com/2012/08/what-color-is-this-in-9-languages/

[vhf]

Please as soon as every RGB code is reliably named, release the data / build a userscript / browser extension / photoshop plugin.

I could really use one of these, and so do every other colorblind !

[kristjan]

Don't forget XKCD's take! http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

[chrismealy → kristjan]

Thanks. This is exactly what I wanted to see after reading the original post:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_1024.png

[doleson → kristjan]

That's pretty cool, we definitely had some pretty interesting name submissions in our color study as well.

[vanpelt]

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[eurleif]

What's the deal with the "English translation" for English? Sometimes it's just the English name with adjectives removed, but other times it adds different adjectives, or changes the name completely.

[doleson → eurleif]

We should've been more clear on that - the English translation is the shortest string length submission we received for that color, while the color name (for English) is the longest (we figured the longest submission would be the most interesting). We only had two different submissions for English, for all other languages we put native language and the English translation.

There are some hidden gems in there one contributor named "Vacation At The Seaside Blue" while another called it "sky," as well as "Bright Endless Meadows Green," while another called that color "green."

You can also download the full dataset on our blog.

[thristian → doleson]

I found one brownish dot in the "red" sector whose English name was "Milk Chocolate" and whose English translation was "Peru".

[batgaijin]

What has changed since this was posted?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3988556

[stephengillie]

The ways humans stratify a small part of the RF spectrum into named colors is a topic that keeps popping up. What does it tell us?

[Tsagadai → stephengillie]

That languages we speak have an impact on how we group and categorise things?

[ssrubin]

See Jeff Heer's work on this: http://vis.stanford.edu/color-names/

and the color-name picker application: http://vis.stanford.edu/color-names/dictionary/

[est]

The bottom color is "Free Speech Green" in Chinese

[doleson → est]

Nice catch! We thought that was quite the color name.