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Old 05-04-2010, 05:47 PM   #11
xoxoxoBruce
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xkdc did a poll... no more than a poll, an experiment. They had readers name colors, and tabulated the results here.
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Thank you so much for all the help on the color survey. Over five million colors were named across 222,500 user sessions.

If you ask people to name colors long enough, they go totally crazy.
“Puke” and “vomit” are totally real colors.
Colorblind people are more likely than non-colorblind people to type “fuck this” (or some variant) and quit in frustration.
Indigo was totally just added to the rainbow so it would have 7 colors and make that “ROY G. BIV” acronym work, just like you always suspected. It should really be ROY GBP, with maybe a C or T thrown in there between G and B depending on how the spectrum was converted to RGB.
A couple dozen people embedded SQL ‘drop table’ statements in the color names. Nice try, kids.
Nobody can spell “fuchsia”.
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