# meodai/color-names

Large list of handpicked color names 🌈

Repository: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/color-names
Homepage: https://meodai.github.io/color-names/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: colors, color, naming, colour, colours, palette, dataset, rgb-color, dictionary
Last push: 2026-08-26T12:59:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3419, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 9, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 145}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2982, forks 228 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:33.840796+00:00)

## What it is
A curated open dataset of over 31,000 unique color names mapped to hex values, maintained by a community with automated quality checks. It is distributed as JSON and an npm package (color-name-list) with a CDN and API for lookup.

## Use cases
- find a name for a hex color
- build a color picker with human-readable names
- name generated color palettes in a design tool
- search colors by name in a web app
- get nearest color name for a given rgb value
- use color names in data visualization legends

## When to choose
- you need a large, permissively licensed, deduplicated color name list
- you want curated, human-reviewed color names for design or creative tools
- you need a JS package or API for color name lookup

## When to avoid
- you need only standard CSS color names
- you need color conversion or manipulation logic rather than names
- you require scientific color standards like Pantone or RAL

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: data-generation, search-engine
- domain: data-science, web-design, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: color-names, colors, hex-colors, naming, palette, dictionary, curated-list, nodejs

## Member repositories
- meodai/color-names (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:33.840796+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:31:28.452243+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/meodai/color-names (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:33.840796+00:00, sha 02e7a52461ed)
  - homepage: https://meodai.github.io/color-names/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:46:43.694018+00:00, sha 91b6b34e6216)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.