Life & fun · November 21, 2022
A color picker for named web colors
I had this idea kicking around in my head for quite a while. Took an evening to make this, and a short morning to polish it a bit. So here it is!
A color picker for named web colors launched on November 21, 2022 with 731 votes, #8 of 3,471 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
This tool helps users select and explore named web colors through an interactive color picker. It's designed for web designers, developers, and anyone working with color specifications who wants to reference standard color names rather than hex codes. The picker provides a straightforward interface for browsing and selecting from the web color palette.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
This "color wheel" arrangement is a compact and visual way to represent a whole range of colors. I was reminded of the named/web colors by a recent Hacker News comment thread , and thought again of arranging them into a color wheel. So here it is: a color wheel, with only "web colors" on it. Each color is placed on the wheel, then grown to a polygon to fill the wheel with a Voronoi diagram. Hover colors to see their name (plus extra preview color swatch and hex code). Click one to "lock" it. The idea is when picking colors for a design, choose visually here from these few (139 distinct) colors, rather than trying to choose from the millions that are actually available. And you can refer to…from arantius.github.io
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