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Life & fun · June 10, 2022

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I built a tool to describe ~4.3B colors

A simple tool I made over the week to explore and learn about different colors. You can select any color with any opacity #000000-FFFFFFFF (~4.3 billion colors/variants), and you can view a dedicated page detailing the color's closest name, conversions to Hex, RGB, CMYK, etc., shades, tints, tones, harmonies, opacities, and WCAG contrast compliance.

I built a tool to describe ~4.3B colors launched on June 10, 2022 with 8 votes, #1,037 of 3,005 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

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