color

color

surprisingly complicated

Wheels and pickers

• https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel
• https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/
• http://colorizer.org/

Palettes

• https://paletton.com/#uid=1000u0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF
• https://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/
• https://www.colourlovers.com/
• https://coolors.co/ -- also features creating palettes from uploaded images

Articles

• https://blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/
• https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette/

Contrast and accessibility

• https://color.adobe.com/create/color-contrast-analyzer

Cultural

11 Colours (An Interlude)

In their book "Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution", Brent Berlin and Paul Kay used data collected from twenty different languages from a range of language families to identify eleven possible basic color categories: white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray.

Berlin and Kay found that, in languages with fewer than the maximum eleven color categories, the colors followed a specific evolutionary pattern. This pattern is as follows:

1. All languages contain terms for black (cool colours) and white (bright colours).
2. If a language contains three terms, then it contains a term for red.
3. If a language contains four terms, then it contains a term for either green or yellow (but not both).
4. If a language contains five terms, then it contains terms for both green and yellow.
5. If a language contains six terms, then it contains a term for blue.
6. If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown.
7. If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains terms for purple, pink, orange or gray.

This may be why story Beowulf only contains the colours black, white, and red. Homer's Odyssey contains black almost 200 times and white about 100 times. Red appears 15 times, while yellow and green appear only 10 times. (77More information here)

Differences between languages are also interesting: note the profusion of distinct colour words used by English vs. Chinese. However, digging deeper into these languages shows that each uses colour in distinct ways. (78More information)

79Chinese vs English colour names. Image adapted from "muyueh.com"

Generally speaking, the naming, use, and grouping of colours in human languages is fascinating. Now, back to the show.

source: Title: terminal - List of ANSI color escape sequences - Stack Overflow URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4842424/list-of-ansi-color-escape-sequences#content