Following on from an earlier post here – I wanted to explore other Hex colors that are words. I always agonise over colour schemes and as I was pleasantly suprised by the colour #BADA55 (or BADASS Green) I thought I’d see if there are other Hex words that are as aesthetically pleasing. After doing a Google dig I soon realised that plenty of geeks before me have had this notion but not necessarily to see the related colour … read the ‘humour’ section of this Wikipedia entry to see what I mean BEEFBABE … *cough* … see what I did?
Anyhoo, the allowed letters are ABCDE & F but I reckon you can include I, O & S if you substitute the numbers 1,0 & 5. From these letters I started to think of some words …
DEAD, BEEF, BABE, FEED, FACE, BASS, COFFEE, DECAF, FIASCO, SAD, BEE, SOD, ICE, BAD, BEAD, ACE, BASIC, SCAB, CAFE, DOSS, CAB, OAF, SAFE, SCABIE
I’m guessing there are loads more. Indeed, these 9 letters could be on your Scrabble board as you read this and if you can expand on this list or suggest some cool 6 letter words using these letters I’d love to know them. Anyway, I digress … here are some Hex color words in their colours for your pleasure.
- #BADA55
- #F1A5C0
- #ACE50D
- #5CAB1E
- #5CABEE
- #C0FFEE
- #DECAFF
- #5ADBEE
- #BABEE5
- #FAB0AF
- #FABACE
- #50DDEE
- #BEEEEF
- #BAAABE
- #FAC0FF
… and then I start clutching at straws. My faves though are definitely #BADA55, #F1A5C0, #C0FFEE and #BEEEEF … shame the colours are 5AD!
There must be some genius ones I’ve not thought of … come on, let’s think of some BADASS Hex Color Words.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
If you're going to take alpha into consideration…
One of the old Amiga debuggers used #DEADBEEF to identify trampled memory address space.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
If you're going to take alpha into consideration…
One of the old Amiga debuggers used #DEADBEEF to identify trampled memory address space.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Oh man, there's so many good ones if you include the alpha : BEEFBABE, FACEFEED, DEADBEEF, DEADBABE, BA51CBABE … the list can go on. I think we should keep it simple though as we want to see the colour at 100%. There's got to be a killer 6 letter word out there.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Oh man, there's so many good ones if you include the alpha : BEEFBABE, FACEFEED, DEADBEEF, DEADBABE, BA51CBABE … the list can go on. I think we should keep it simple though as we want to see the colour at 100%. There's got to be a killer 6 letter word out there.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:06 am
OMG! How could I have missed #DADDEE! Sorry kids.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:06 am
OMG! How could I have missed #DADDEE! Sorry kids.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:51 am
You are such a GEEK! But then so am I….
CABB1E
DEEDED
FAECE5
5ODOFF
FECOFF
FAÇADE
FACIA5
FACIE5
DEFACE
DEF1ED
ABELE5
5ADD1E
CADD1E
Any there take yer fancy? I like FAECE5. Yes, I really do-do. Ha HA HA…oof.
Dx
March 7th, 2009 at 10:51 am
You are such a GEEK! But then so am I….
CABB1E
DEEDED
FAECE5
5ODOFF
FECOFF
FAÇADE
FACIA5
FACIE5
DEFACE
DEF1ED
ABELE5
5ADD1E
CADD1E
Any there take yer fancy? I like FAECE5. Yes, I really do-do. Ha HA HA…oof.
Dx
March 7th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Here you go:
ABACA5, ABA5ED, ABA5E5, ABBE55, ABE1E5, AB0DED, AB0DE5, AB011A, ACCEDE, ACCE55, ADD1ED, ADD1E5, AD0BE5, AD0B05, A1BED0, A1CADE, A1D015, A1D05E, A11E1E, A110D5, A55E55, BAA5E5, BABB1E, BABE15, BAB001, BAB005, BACCAE, BAFFED, BAFF1E, BA1B0A, BA1DED, BA11AD, BA11ED, BA15A5, BA0BAB, BA55E5, BA5505, BEADED, BEAD1E, BEDDED, BEDE11, BEDE15, BEEBEE, BEEFED, BEFA11, BEFE11, BEF1EA, BEF001, BE11ED, BE11E5, B1ADED, B1ADE5, B1AFF5, B1EED5, B100D5, B0BBED, B0BB1E, B0CCE5, B0FF05, B011ED, B00BED, B00B00, B00C00, B00D1E, B055ED, B055E5, CABA1A, CABA15, CABBED, CAB1ED, CAB1E5, CAB0B5, CACA05, CAECA1, CA1CE5, CA1E5A, CA11A5, CA11ED, CA11EE, CA5ABA, CEA5ED, CEA5E5, CE1EB5, CE11AE, CE11ED, CE1105, CE55ED, CE55E5, C10ACA, C105ED, C105E5, C0A1A5, C0A1ED, C0BB1E, C0B1E5, C0CCA1, C0C0A5, C0DDED, C0DD1E, C0DEC5, C0FFEE, C0FF1E, C01EAD, C00C00, C00EED, C00EE5, C001ED, C05EC5, DABBED, DABB1E, DADD1E, DAD0ED, DAD0E5, DAEDA1, DAFFED, DA11E5, DEBA5E, DECADE, DECAF5, DECA15, DEC0DE, DEEDED, DEFACE, DEF1EA, DE1EAD, D0AB1E, D0B1A5, D0D0E5, D0FFED, D011ED, D00DAD, D00D1E, D00D00, D001EE, D055A1, D055ED, D055E1, D055E5, EA5E15, EDD0E5, EFFACE, E10DEA, FAB1ED, FAB1E5, FACADE, FAECA1, FAECE5, FA1CE5, FA11A1, FA5CE5, FEA5ED, FEA5E5, FEEB1E, FE11A5, FE11ED, FE110E, FE0FF5, FE55ED, FE55E5, F1EECE, F100D5, F0A1ED, F0BBED, F01DED, F011E5, F001ED, F055AE, F055E5, 1ABE15, 1AD1ED, 1AD1E5, 1A11ED, 1A55E5, 1A5505, 1EADED, 1EAFED, 1EA5ED, 1EA5E5, 1E55EE, 10ADED, 10AFED, 10BBED, 10CA1E, 10CA15, 10C0ED, 10C0E5, 1011ED, 100FA5, 1005ED, 1005E5, 105E15, 1055E5, 0B01E5, 0B5E55, 0FFA15, 00D1E5, 5ABA15, 5ABBED, 5AB1E5, 5ADD1E, 5A1AD5, 5A1A15, 5A1015, 5A15A5, 5A55ED, 5A55E5, 5CA1D5, 5CA1ED, 5CA1E5, 5CA115, 5C1AFF, 5C0FF5, 5C01D5, 5EABED, 5EA1ED, 5ECC05, 5ECEDE, 5EEDED, 5EE1ED, 5E1FED, 5E11E5, 50BBED, 50C1E5, 50DDED, 501ACE, 5010ED
FYI:
I took the 15553 six letter words from the scrabble word finder [http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/cgi-bin/scrabble.cgi?Letters=&Pattern=______&MatchType=Exactly&MinLetters=6&SortBy=Alpha&SearchType=Scrabble] and spent a couple of minutes writing a perl script to filter them to only ones with the letters abcdeflos.
If you wanted to be really complete you could make a script to generate the word pairs the letter combinations 1,5 2,4 and 3,3.
To get you started here is my little perl script.
#!/usr/bin/perl
@words = (“aahing”, “aaliis”, “aarrgh”, … [other 15 thousand or so words] …, “zygote”, “zymase”);
foreach $word (@words) {
if ( $word =~ /[abcdeflos]{6}/ ) {
$word =~ s/o/0/g;
$word =~ s/l/1/g;
$word =~ s/s/5/g;
print uc $word . “, “;
}
}
March 7th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Here you go:
ABACA5, ABA5ED, ABA5E5, ABBE55, ABE1E5, AB0DED, AB0DE5, AB011A, ACCEDE, ACCE55, ADD1ED, ADD1E5, AD0BE5, AD0B05, A1BED0, A1CADE, A1D015, A1D05E, A11E1E, A110D5, A55E55, BAA5E5, BABB1E, BABE15, BAB001, BAB005, BACCAE, BAFFED, BAFF1E, BA1B0A, BA1DED, BA11AD, BA11ED, BA15A5, BA0BAB, BA55E5, BA5505, BEADED, BEAD1E, BEDDED, BEDE11, BEDE15, BEEBEE, BEEFED, BEFA11, BEFE11, BEF1EA, BEF001, BE11ED, BE11E5, B1ADED, B1ADE5, B1AFF5, B1EED5, B100D5, B0BBED, B0BB1E, B0CCE5, B0FF05, B011ED, B00BED, B00B00, B00C00, B00D1E, B055ED, B055E5, CABA1A, CABA15, CABBED, CAB1ED, CAB1E5, CAB0B5, CACA05, CAECA1, CA1CE5, CA1E5A, CA11A5, CA11ED, CA11EE, CA5ABA, CEA5ED, CEA5E5, CE1EB5, CE11AE, CE11ED, CE1105, CE55ED, CE55E5, C10ACA, C105ED, C105E5, C0A1A5, C0A1ED, C0BB1E, C0B1E5, C0CCA1, C0C0A5, C0DDED, C0DD1E, C0DEC5, C0FFEE, C0FF1E, C01EAD, C00C00, C00EED, C00EE5, C001ED, C05EC5, DABBED, DABB1E, DADD1E, DAD0ED, DAD0E5, DAEDA1, DAFFED, DA11E5, DEBA5E, DECADE, DECAF5, DECA15, DEC0DE, DEEDED, DEFACE, DEF1EA, DE1EAD, D0AB1E, D0B1A5, D0D0E5, D0FFED, D011ED, D00DAD, D00D1E, D00D00, D001EE, D055A1, D055ED, D055E1, D055E5, EA5E15, EDD0E5, EFFACE, E10DEA, FAB1ED, FAB1E5, FACADE, FAECA1, FAECE5, FA1CE5, FA11A1, FA5CE5, FEA5ED, FEA5E5, FEEB1E, FE11A5, FE11ED, FE110E, FE0FF5, FE55ED, FE55E5, F1EECE, F100D5, F0A1ED, F0BBED, F01DED, F011E5, F001ED, F055AE, F055E5, 1ABE15, 1AD1ED, 1AD1E5, 1A11ED, 1A55E5, 1A5505, 1EADED, 1EAFED, 1EA5ED, 1EA5E5, 1E55EE, 10ADED, 10AFED, 10BBED, 10CA1E, 10CA15, 10C0ED, 10C0E5, 1011ED, 100FA5, 1005ED, 1005E5, 105E15, 1055E5, 0B01E5, 0B5E55, 0FFA15, 00D1E5, 5ABA15, 5ABBED, 5AB1E5, 5ADD1E, 5A1AD5, 5A1A15, 5A1015, 5A15A5, 5A55ED, 5A55E5, 5CA1D5, 5CA1ED, 5CA1E5, 5CA115, 5C1AFF, 5C0FF5, 5C01D5, 5EABED, 5EA1ED, 5ECC05, 5ECEDE, 5EEDED, 5EE1ED, 5E1FED, 5E11E5, 50BBED, 50C1E5, 50DDED, 501ACE, 5010ED
FYI:
I took the 15553 six letter words from the scrabble word finder [http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/cgi-bin/scrabble.cgi?Letters=&Pattern=______&MatchType=Exactly&MinLetters=6&SortBy=Alpha&SearchType=Scrabble] and spent a couple of minutes writing a perl script to filter them to only ones with the letters abcdeflos.
If you wanted to be really complete you could make a script to generate the word pairs the letter combinations 1,5 2,4 and 3,3.
To get you started here is my little perl script.
#!/usr/bin/perl
@words = (“aahing”, “aaliis”, “aarrgh”, … [other 15 thousand or so words] …, “zygote”, “zymase”);
foreach $word (@words) {
if ( $word =~ /[abcdeflos]{6}/ ) {
$word =~ s/o/0/g;
$word =~ s/l/1/g;
$word =~ s/s/5/g;
print uc $word . “, “;
}
}
March 10th, 2009 at 11:27 am
How about <span style=”color: #beefed;”>BEEFED</span>?
The words like CAFEBABE AND DEADBEEF are 8 characters long, hence they fit in one 32 bit integer (2 symbols per byte X 4bytes per int). So they have a long history being used as type signatures for binary file formats. Perhaps the most famous instance is “CAFEBABE” for the Java binary class file format (open any class file in a hex editor!), but this tradition goes way back.
Now the interesting thing about RGBs is they are three bytes long, which is an oddball length. (Take a 32 bit integer, zero out one byte, use for _R_ed, _B_lue, _G_reen, in that order–so the valuues are 0..FF). So some of the traditional values won't work.
That's why I thought your search should be “BEEFED” up to look for words that are ALL letters that fit in exactly 6 letters.
You might want to play with this palette picker.
Links:
http://websitetips.com/colortools/sitepro/
March 10th, 2009 at 11:27 am
How about <span style=”color: #beefed;”>BEEFED</span>?
The words like CAFEBABE AND DEADBEEF are 8 characters long, hence they fit in one 32 bit integer (2 symbols per byte X 4bytes per int). So they have a long history being used as type signatures for binary file formats. Perhaps the most famous instance is “CAFEBABE” for the Java binary class file format (open any class file in a hex editor!), but this tradition goes way back.
Now the interesting thing about RGBs is they are three bytes long, which is an oddball length. (Take a 32 bit integer, zero out one byte, use for _R_ed, _B_lue, _G_reen, in that order–so the valuues are 0..FF). So some of the traditional values won't work.
That's why I thought your search should be “BEEFED” up to look for words that are ALL letters that fit in exactly 6 letters.
You might want to play with this palette picker.
Links:
http://websitetips.com/colortools/sitepro/
March 22nd, 2009 at 4:59 am
If you're thinking of CSS colour values you can do 3 character hex codes too. So 5AD would work, as well as the ones you have above.
I like 50D0FF though
July 21st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
[...] also posted a list earlier on this year. My favorite being #FAECE5 (skin [...]
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
UPDATE: You can now buy your Hex Colour Word for $1 at http://www.myhexcolor.com
March 28th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Very tricky ideas there.