The picture contains about 1,300 colors and the names for them that Turkers gave. Each is printed in its color and positioned on a color wheel. Just looking around, there sure seem to be different regions for different names. But there are also rich sets of modifiers (”light”, “dark”, “sea”), multiword names (”army green”), and fun obscure ones (”cerulean”).
[a lot more cool info at Dolores Labs]
I like projects like this. I get a lot of strange ideas what colors look like. Working in a print shop I quite often get someone asking for a color using words, I would of never imagined. I found what people thought interesting… Also note how many times the same color name were in two different places.
Tags: color, Design, Interesting
