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Life & fun · October 10, 2013

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Name That Blue - How well do you know your digital brand colors?

Can you tell Facebook's blue from Instagram's blue? Know your Twitter from your Dropbox? Test your skills using my latest hack: Name That Blue http://colin-gourlay.com/namethatblue/ Most of the hex values are sourced from http://brandcolors.net/ (thanks @galengidman!), but I'm slowly adding others to make the challenge more engaging. I'd love to know what you think! Thanks

Name That Blue - How well do you know your digital brand colors? launched on October 10, 2013 with 12 votes, #97 of 565 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Name That Blue is a quiz game that challenges users to identify the blue colors used by major digital brands like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Dropbox. Players are shown hex color values and must match them to the correct brand. The game draws most of its color data from brandcolors.net, with additional colors being added over time to increase difficulty and variety.

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