There is no confusion at all. A normal person can perfectly well understand that a color can have several different names. The majority of people are at least bilingual.
You're confused, the understanding that multiple names can exist isn't relevant. But for you to understand that you'd need to think and try to answer my question that tried to steer you into the right direction.
People who are specialized and work with colors are better served by thinking in terms of how the colors are mixed and relate to each other. I do that, and probably you do too.
Normal people use color names, and there's practically no limit to how many different color names people can remember, especially since almost all come from real life objects. Salmon, spongecake, wine red, olive, neon pink, and so on. Having multiple names for the same or very similar colors is no problem, because there is no requirement for pinpoint accuracy when using names instead of numbers.
The color names people are giving in this project are however mostly low quality, and won't catch on anywhere. "Silent Breeze", "Energize" etc.
Have you talked to "normal people" about colors? They are notoriously bad at them and the limit of confusion is a rather low number, definitely orders of magnitude lower than 32k in this database.
> Having multiple names for the same or very similar colors is no problem.
Only if you dismiss clarity as a value "there is no requirement for pinpoint accuracy". At which point, though, what purpose does this database serve??? And again, this db is deduplicated, so it doesn't share your argument, hence it's legit highlighting where it falls short on deduplication.
> low quality "Silent Breeze"
that's a different fail, though not much different from other low quality real colors like Turquoise that did catch on
Most people can’t remember 256 color names. And that only covers eight-bit color. They might remember a few different names around common colors they use or like, but that’s about as far as they can go.
If you think you can remember the 100 different colors in the Munsell Color test, please go right ahead and tell me what they all are. Without consulting a computer, a chart, or the actual Munsell Color test samples, of course.
I took the Munsell Color test, and I passed it with 100% perfect accuracy. But I couldn’t name more than a half dozen colors that might have been in it.
Naming is one of the hardest problems in the world, and in computer science. Namespaces are also hard, for the same reason.
They would have no problem doing that if they had a good reason to. That wouldn't mean being able to exactly discern between two very similar colors.
To give a simple example: Teal / Turquoise / Cyan / Bluegreen / Mediterranean sea. That's 5 different names for what most people would consider the same color. Throw in Aquamarine and we have 6. Color names are imprecise and can only be imprecise. But they're also quite useful.
"Namespaces" aren't used by people, they're only used by computers.
