[HN Gopher] Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words
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Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words
Author : cialowicz
Score : 755 points
Date : 2022-06-08 20:35 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (hexwords.netlify.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (hexwords.netlify.app)
| andix wrote:
| You can do the same with ipv6 addresses. Something like
| dead:beef::babe
| svnpenn wrote:
| Doesnt work with Firefox
|
| http://0x0.st/oMvf.png
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| works for me without issues, firefox 101
| petschge wrote:
| Pretty broken in 91.10.0esr (64-bit) on Linux
| unnouinceput wrote:
| It absolutely does:
|
| https://i.postimg.cc/wg8nrTwj/hexwords-firefox.jpg
| danreedx86 wrote:
| ahem, you missed #d00d00
| danielvaughn wrote:
| Whenever I give a demo, I always use #BADA55 because I have the
| maturity of a 12 year old. This will definitely expand my
| repertoire.
| hajimuz wrote:
| Badass color is not bad ass at all... :)
| fjfaase wrote:
| My initial and surname when written as an hexcode make a nice
| orange colour: Texas rose, according to some website.
|
| Are there more people that can write their name as a hexcode?
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| #5A6E57, SAGEST, is interesting because it appears to be the most
| sage-like color on the board and is therefore autological.
| cygnusryefly wrote:
| @Godel -- look!
| tralarpa wrote:
| And also three-digit color codes, such as #BAD. And for non-hex
| colors, we have this:
| https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...
| abirch wrote:
| I was thinking #000 or #0FF
| somishere wrote:
| #DEAD set (four with alpha)
| iso1631 wrote:
| No #B00B1E?
| syborg wrote:
| https://imgur.com/a/L3pBpKq
| xigoi wrote:
| I have a project named "xidoc". I spent a long time trying to
| come up with a logo and a primary color, then I got the cute idea
| of using the letter x (xi) in the color #d0c (which happens to be
| a quite lovely magenta).
| zem wrote:
| in my last job we used to work #C0FFEE coloured elements into our
| UI as a little easter egg of sorts.
| karateka wrote:
| I built something very similar a few years ago https://hex-
| colours.netlify.app/
| gpt5 wrote:
| You mean identical? Seems like OP likely got inspired by your
| page :)
| jy14898 wrote:
| Nice, hexwords only has 1000 words, compared to your 3500
| Jleagle wrote:
| Lots of the 2,500 don't seem very recognisable, possibly from
| another language?
| abyssin wrote:
| Fesses is from French, for instance.
| Jarmsy wrote:
| But common in informal English as a shortening of
| _confesses_.
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| In my head, it's a conjugation of "fess", which is a
| shortening of "confess". (Until I thought of it that way
| I was thinking "I've never seen this before", despite the
| word being in my vocabulary.)
| wiredfool wrote:
| I've only seen that as 'fess up'
| wodenokoto wrote:
| Since yours hold a lot more uncommon words (by virtue of simply
| having many more words) a feature, if you are in the mood for
| updating, could be to sort by word frequency along with
| alphabetical sorting.
| hellohowareu wrote:
| Feature idea for you and OP: add the visual swatch of color
| which the hex color represents. Makes it much more meaningful
| unnouinceput wrote:
| yours lacks #B00B1E though.
| sigil wrote:
| Really disappointed #dadb0d didn't make the cut.
| duffyjp wrote:
| You should collaborate with https://colornames.org/
| loudthing wrote:
| This is simultaneously interesting and useless.
| want2takearide wrote:
| If anybody is wondering SOBBED (#50BBED[1]) is pretty close to
| Zima Blue[2].
|
| [1]: https://color-hex.org/color/50bbed
|
| [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima_Blue_and_Other_Stories
| kwatsonafter wrote:
| This is the kind of quirky, brilliant link I crave from Hacker
| News. If I was near you creator, I would garland you and rub your
| feet.
| lucasyvas wrote:
| Second sentence escalated quickly.
| [deleted]
| helsinki wrote:
| hypertele-Xii wrote:
| I think you're both right. It's a fun little page that
| doesn't actually serve any purpose, like... comedic art?
|
| The practical solutions to this opinion divide are to somehow
| categorize entries like this as [funny] or whatever so people
| can skip them informedly, or to simply accept that HN
| aggregates content that appeals to different minds.
| jethro_tell wrote:
| Think you just created old reddit
| 0xRusty wrote:
| Let's keep having threads with 4 comments discussing the
| latest Haskell library borefest then. Threads like this have
| their place.
| 88913527 wrote:
| I personally find it uninteresting, but I don't think it
| decreases the value of HN or the quality of the community--
| people will find novelty in different things. It also seems
| like the kind of content that the guidelines praise. I
| appreciate when people deep-dive into niche topics because it
| fosters (in my subjective view) the best type of discussion.
| Aeolun wrote:
| It's one of those 'do it because you can' kind of things. I
| wouldn't spend time doing it myself, but happy to see others
| do it.
| fumeux_fume wrote:
| The point is it's a lot easier to remember facade than
| ffb6c1. Also since when did HN posts need a point?!
| fickleberry wrote:
| dhzhzjsbevs wrote:
| How old are you by chance?
|
| There's a chance younger people simply won't understand or
| appreciate the interest in DEADBEEF.
|
| Personally I found it kind of neat and wondered if I could
| design a colour palette out of rememberable code names.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadbeef
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
|
| Heh looks like this has been done before too:
| http://bada55.io/
| jonstaab wrote:
| This is the kind of thing HN is for. That's not to say it's
| not also great at incubating overly-pedantic technocratic
| bikeshedding of computing minutiae, which has its place.
| Don't ever change, HN.
| glottalchop wrote:
| moron4hire wrote:
| Interesting. You consider it a waste of time. So this post
| from you must be an example of the sunk cost fallacy, as you
| throw good time after bad.
| bricemo wrote:
| I have enjoyed this exchange about as much as the original
| link. Bravo
| moron4hire wrote:
| abathur wrote:
| This is dumb, and I am in love with it. I'll have to use some of
| these... :)
| nathias wrote:
| pretty cool, now we need something like a prettier plugin that
| forces hexes to the nearest hexword to make it useful
| uwagar wrote:
| is it just for me? the copy icon seems on top of every word
| obstructing the view... :(
| ljoshua wrote:
| #B00B00 is one of my favorites as a dad with young kids (it's
| red). :)
| phelm wrote:
| Didn't someone once set the PETA website to #BEEEEF
| joshwcomeau wrote:
| I love this
| jalk wrote:
| Love it. Now I need some nice looking/sounding palette phrases
| :-)
| superb-owl wrote:
| You many want to consider a naughty words filter.
| https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and...
| failTide wrote:
| I understand a lot of those, but why is "beaver cleaver" on the
| list? I could see how it might be used in a dirty way, but that
| can't be the most common way it's used, right?
| hoppyhoppy2 wrote:
| Well it's on the filter list, so someone must consider it
| more offensive than words not on the list such as "gaping
| poophole thrusting".
| bee_rider wrote:
| The "dirty" use seems pretty silly (sounds like something out
| of a crass 80's movie or something), but I can't really
| imagine using it in a non-dirty manner either. I mean I know
| people have hunted and trapped beavers, but when the capture
| them they don't just, like, thwack them with a giant cleaver,
| right? Would ruin the pelt if nothing else.
| failTide wrote:
| Not sure if you're messing with me, but Beaver Cleaver is
| the name of a famous sitcom character. Awesome show IMO,
| you can watch the entire series for free on archive.org
|
| https://archive.org/details/leave.it.to.beaver.complete.ser
| i...
| bee_rider wrote:
| I wasn't -- I was not aware that his last name was
| Cleaver, haha.
| turtledove wrote:
| TIL. That said, I'm sure if you polled most folks these
| days, beaver would mean animal or women's genitalia, and
| not leave it to beaver.
|
| Given the relatively common crass meaning for beaver,
| beaver cleaver sure sounds like a sexual innuendo to me.
| [deleted]
| samb1729 wrote:
| Or better yet, they could ignore this suggestion entirely!
| warning26 wrote:
| Since the _raison d 'etre_ of this project seems to be spelling
| ridiculous things out of hex colors, I think it would lose a
| lot of its appeal with such a filter.
| spencerflem wrote:
| I love this <3
| mikece wrote:
| Where has this been all of my career? Very #BADA55 indeed!
| rommel917 wrote:
| #BADA55 is skin color of kerbals from KSP
| c22 wrote:
| I'm gonna start using #ACCE55 to indicate successful login and
| #B00B00 on failure.
| [deleted]
| distrill wrote:
| wow. they're ugly, but that's awesome they map to green and
| red.
| jjslocum3 wrote:
| What a fun and fantastic mnemonic tool!
| turtledove wrote:
| Found a slur in the dataset, not sure if these are
| programmatically generated (I assume so) but may want to consider
| filtering those out.
| Veen wrote:
| It's worth pointing out that they are slurs in the U.S., not
| globally. One is a type of meatball where I'm from.
| turtledove wrote:
| Yep. But if your user base is likely to include Americans,
| then you might want to consider filtering them out. (As it
| could be shocking to read.)
|
| Note the word _consider_ , by the way. I'm not demanding
| anything here, I'm saying the author should make a deliberate
| choice about their inclusion rather than including them just
| because they were auto generated.
| joshuahaglund wrote:
| For the curious, I think they mean decimal values 16408693 and
| 16410119. Which have other archaic meanings but their primary
| modern meanings are a slur. 16410349 is apparently British
| slang for exhausted, so maybe gets a pass?
| [deleted]
| Symbiote wrote:
| oniony wrote:
| I really don't like this colour: #DE7E57
| andrewbaron wrote:
| From 2014 http://bada55.io/ includes a much more expansive set
| considering hex colors do not require all six characters. #101
| tonicbbleking wrote:
| To me, #CA551A wins it. Looks a lot like cassia tree bark, aka
| cinnamon.
| travisgriggs wrote:
| #BADA55 is brown.
|
| Giggle.
| mattrb wrote:
| Reminds me a lot of https://c0ffee.surge.sh
| phabricator wrote:
| Thanks for making an interesting article and only plugging your
| site at the end. I don't mind submarine ads if I can learn
| something from them.
| nr2x wrote:
| This should be turned into some hybrid between Wordle and MDN.
| bezoz wrote:
| This would make a pretty cool MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle!
| langsoul-com wrote:
| Reminds me about when people had to generate a string of random
| characters but take anything out that's close to a slur.
|
| Forgot what the end result was, no vowels and numbers?
| IntrepidWorm wrote:
| Yeah, it's a prime example of a sisyphean task. Language is too
| varied and fluid, and the internet is far too juvenile to be
| censored for any length of time (not a dig, but you try telling
| reddit they can't say slurs anymore).
| thrdbndndn wrote:
| What does "alpha" switch do?
| itcrowd wrote:
| Includes longer words to define the alpha (transparency)
| channnel
| kretaceous wrote:
| I've always wanted to make something like this! This is awesome.
| Filters to weed out leetspeak words, use only letters/numbers,
| etc would be great.
|
| It was on my "toy project list" after reading these two very
| interesting stories/threads:
|
| The famous CAFEBABE story:
| https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2808646/why-are-the-firs...
|
| Why does HTML think "chucknorris" is a color?:
| https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...
| gunnarmorling wrote:
| Disappointed to see that C#'s counterpart to Java's 0xCAFEBABE
| is missing: 0xBADDECAF /s
| soheil wrote:
| I wonder if there is another base other than 16 that would
| generate the most beautiful colors with most words.
| gtm1260 wrote:
| Ya'll are missing my favorite one, although I guess its
| technically two words. "Dad CEO": #dadce0
| dark-star wrote:
| So which of these actually spell the color they represent (or
| something closely related)? From a quick glance, I have no found
| any. Do color-words like that exist in other languages maybe?
| rhplus wrote:
| SEABED - blue CASSIS - purplish pink berry color
| sisk wrote:
| #B00B00 (dark red) was my favorite
| ufo wrote:
| Great color for errors!
| kbd wrote:
| #A55E55 (asses) is brown. Oh... wait.
| withinboredom wrote:
| There is a large population of brown asses in the world.
| mauvehaus wrote:
| The issues isn't the color of the asses, but rather that
| the word spelled is assess. As in, the tax assessor is
| coming to assess our property now that we put on that
| addition. I expect our assessment to go up.
| 867-5309 wrote:
| just make sure you're wearing brown pants when you read
| the bill
| btown wrote:
| #1C1E57 (ICIEST) is dark blue, which could hold true in certain
| contexts!
|
| #DEBA65 (DEBAGS) is brown, much like de color of de bags made
| of de paper.
|
| And on a related and exceptionally juvenile note, it should be
| very possible - and frankly obligatory, for those in fashion
| tech companies reading this - to create and sell a #B00B1E
| colored bra.
| TheSpiceIsLife wrote:
| Tangentially related, and equally juvenile, I own the
| telephone number in Australia: 08 80087355
|
| Still gives me a chuckle. Grow up.
| DeathArrow wrote:
| I just called, why didn't you pick up?
| TheSpiceIsLife wrote:
| Voicemail not enabled and no SIP client logger in.
|
| Should have connected for a few giggles this arvo.
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| OB(viously) BOOBLESS?
| idontpost wrote:
| RIP your voicemail
| phabricator wrote:
| It's 2022: RIP the concept of voicemail
| [deleted]
| mitchdoogle wrote:
| You think the concept of people leaving audio messages to
| one another is dead? That seems like something that will
| never die out.
| rolph wrote:
| in my circle its common to email mp3 attachments
| scubbo wrote:
| The concept of people leaving audio messages _with a
| reasonable expectation that someone will listen to them_
| is (thankfully) dying out, at least among my social
| circles.
|
| You can leave a message if you want, I'm not going to
| listen to it. The only entities that make unexpected
| phone calls are scammers and bots.
| Smithalicious wrote:
| I get spam calls but I never get spam voice mails. As
| such I never pick up unexpected calls but I do listen to
| messages.
|
| Might be a regional thing?
| scubbo wrote:
| Given that I never get ham voice calls, it is reasonable
| for me to assume that any voice mails that I receive are
| therefore spam (but, no, you're right, I don't recall
| ever noticing a spam voice mail. But then I wouldn't
| notice one, whether it existed or not, because I don't
| check them)
| scubbo wrote:
| (EXTREMELY minor spoilers for Everything Everywhere All At
| Once) .
|
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| My inner child chuckled to see 55378008 displayed on a
| calculator near the end of that movie.
| myrmidon wrote:
| #AC1D1C is red, just like its PH test- that was the most
| satisfying one to me at first glance.
| failTide wrote:
| #CABB1E is kind of like a taxicab yellow
| CamelRocketFish wrote:
| #C0C0A5 (COCOAS) Is brown
| donpott wrote:
| A bit of a stretch, but I remarked upon #ACE71C (acetic), which
| is an oily, vinegary green
| mbil wrote:
| Good question. I thought of an algorithm to find the hex word
| colors that most closely match the color they represent...
|
| Basically: get the color of the _word_ by doing an image search
| and extracting the dominant color from the first image result.
| Then compare that color to the hex color (in CIELAB color
| space) to get the color difference. Track the hex words with
| lowest difference.
|
| Here's a rough impl in Python: import sys
| import os import heapq import requests
| from google.cloud import vision from
| colormath.color_objects import sRGBColor, LabColor from
| colormath.color_conversions import convert_color from
| colormath.color_diff import delta_e_cie2000 from
| bs4 import BeautifulSoup def
| download_image_for_query(query): search_key =
| os.getenv("GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ENGINE_KEY")
| search_engine_id = os.getenv("GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ENGINE_ID")
| resp = requests.get( f"https://www.googleapis.com
| /customsearch/v1?key={search_key}&cx={search_engine_id}&q={quer
| y}&searchType=image" ) img_url =
| resp.json()["items"][0]["link"] img_content =
| requests.get(img_url).content return img_content
| def dominant_rgb_colors(image_content, num_colors=1):
| vision_client = vision.ImageAnnotatorClient() image =
| vision.Image(content=image_content) response =
| vision_client.annotate_image({"image": image}) return
| [ (int(c.color.red), int(c.color.green),
| int(c.color.blue)) for c in
| response.image_properties_annotation.dominant_colors.colors
| ][:num_colors] # class to store hex word and
| calculate the difference from "true" image, based on image
| search class HeapibleHexWord: def
| generate_rgb_version(self): return
| tuple(int(self.hex_version.lstrip("#")[i:i+2], 16) for i in (0,
| 2, 4)) def __init__(self, hex_version,
| english_version): self.hex_version = hex_version
| self.english_version = english_version
| self.rgb_version = self.generate_rgb_version()
| self.delta_from_true = float("inf")
| def calculate_delta_from_true(self): true_rgb =
| sRGBColor(*self.rgb_version) query =
| self.english_version img_content =
| download_image_for_query(query) test_rgb =
| sRGBColor(*dominant_rgb_colors(img_content)[0])
| # via http://hanzratech.in/2015/01/16/color-difference-
| between-2-colors-using-python.html delta =
| delta_e_cie2000( convert_color(true_rgb,
| LabColor), convert_color(test_rgb, LabColor)
| ) self.delta_from_true = delta
| def __lt__(self, other): return
| self.delta_from_true < other.delta_from_true #
| scrape words from hexwords site hexwords_url =
| 'https://hexwords.netlify.app/' hexwords_page =
| requests.get(hexwords_url) soup =
| BeautifulSoup(hexwords_page.text, 'html.parser')
| buttons = soup.find_all('button', class_='svelte-1m9ptdb')
| hex_words = [] for button in buttons: if
| button.text == '': continue
| hex_version, _, english_version = button.text.split("\n")
| hex_words.append((hex_version, english_version.replace("(",
| "").replace(")", ""))) # iterate over the hex
| words, calculating the color diff between the word's hex
| # color and the "true" color based on image search
| hex_words_heap = [] heapq.heapify(hex_words_heap)
| NUM_WORDS = 10 # looks like throttled at some point
| for i, hex_word in enumerate(hex_words[:NUM_WORDS]):
| print(f"working on {i}: {hex_word}")
| heapible_hex_word = HeapibleHexWord(*hex_word)
| heapible_hex_word.calculate_delta_from_true()
| heapq.heappush(hex_words_heap, heapible_hex_word)
| # popping from the min heap yields hexwords with smallers
| difference from true color
| heapq.heappop(hex_words_heap).english_version
| mike_d wrote:
| I sometimes wish HN had the equivalent of Reddit Gold. Well
| done.
| aronhegedus wrote:
| awesome! Agree with previous comment, this is cool
| aasasd wrote:
| Alas, I'm gonna bet a lot of images are an object in the
| center and plenty of white or other background around it.
| madcaptenor wrote:
| My children definitely have clothes in colors close to #BAB1E5.
| #B00B00 kind of looks like blood.
| SamBam wrote:
| #D0661E - a nice brown doggie.
|
| #CA771E - brown cattle.
|
| #C10ACA - a purple cloaca.
|
| #C017A1 - coital, similarly purplish pink.
|
| Lots of blues and greens starting with #5EA... (Sea...).
| #5EABED (Seabed), #5EABEE (Seabee), #5EAD06 (Seadog) and #5EA
| by itself.
|
| (I used https://hex-colours.netlify.app/, which looks like it
| was the original from another comment, and allows you to search
| pieces of words.)
| wwilim wrote:
| #ACCE55 is green and #F1A5C0 is pinkish red, great colors for a
| login prompt
| layer8 wrote:
| And then #1060FF for logoff.
| jsf01 wrote:
| 5EABED (a blue) and B00B00 (blood red) were the best matches I
| found
| magneticnorth wrote:
| A couple more I spotted:
|
| #ACAC1A is a shade of green and Acacia is a type of tree.
|
| #57061E (stogie) is dark brown, and a stogie is a cigar.
| swid wrote:
| How many colors do you typically identify or would be willing
| to accept? Somewhere between 10 and 25 would be sufficient...
| not every word will have a color association, but many will
| have more than one.
|
| I think you need to be pretty strict to not find a match after
| 50 words.
| cecilpl2 wrote:
| #C0A575 (coasts) is a sandy-brown beach color.
|
| #6E0DE5 (geodes) definitely has that deep purple color you
| think of.
|
| And my favorite, #5A6E57 (sagest) is about as close to the
| color sage as you can get.
| bee_rider wrote:
| Kind of a stretch, but #B05535 (bosses) and #BE57ED (bested)
| are both sort of purplish colors that looter games like
| Borderlands sometimes use for "pretty rare, but not unique"
| items (which would typically be dropped by a boss monsters when
| you defeat them).
| davchana wrote:
| Similar things in a number's value v/s its number of characters
| I think is called True Number, & only 4 is a true number like 4
| value & FOUR has exact 4 letters.
| stingrae wrote:
| maybe #5EABED, which is a shade of blue?
| tunesmith wrote:
| I love that "booboo" is blood red.
| Deuterium wrote:
| Nice! I made a hexwords mode on https://www.lazycolor.com/ I
| haven't really touched the site in a decade... maybe I'll update
| it next decade.
| techbelly wrote:
| Nicely done. This is a fun idea that comes up time and again.
|
| I think I might have made one of the first implementations way
| back in 2011:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20111117062015/techbelly.com/sem...
|
| And someone quickly made a better version inspired by it here:
| http://lexadecimal.pixielabs.io/
| paradite wrote:
| I use d3 for visualization, and my favourite default color for
| everything is #d3d3d3. Works well in a lot of situations.
| gloryless wrote:
| This is amazing, love it!!
| pdpi wrote:
| Hexspeak[0] is a time-honoured tradition, with constants like
| 0xDEADBEEF used to mark uninitialised memory. Fun to see it
| applied to colours.
|
| 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
| jerrysievert wrote:
| I remember seeing 0xdeadbeef for the first time in dbx, which
| was my first experience with seeing uninitialized memory - was
| really surprised to not see it in the list on the website,
| since it's rgb+o (red/green/blue + opacity).
| collegeburner wrote:
| Yeah B16B00B5 and CAFEBABE are 2 of my favorite funnier ones
| Ive used a bunch of times. They make for more interesting
| placeholder values than "foo" and "bar" anyway.
| netsharc wrote:
| Shouldn't that be B16?
|
| I'd make a joke about beware of the woke crowd coming for
| you, but I think even joking about that causes offense
| nowadays.
| hypertele-Xii wrote:
| No 6 looks like a 'b'. I think closest to 'g' is 9.
| function_seven wrote:
| But 'B' is already there, and all the other characters
| are uppercase, so '6' -> 'G' scans easier to my eye.
|
| '619' may be 'big', but it doesn't scan that well. 'B16'
| looks more like 'BIG'
| [deleted]
| hypertele-Xii wrote:
| Without commenting on the reasonability of it, you may want
| to be aware that a growing population of vegetarian and
| female tech workers may find these offensive.
| goldenkey wrote:
| I'm pretty sure both women and men love big boobs and big
| dicks...
| contingencies wrote:
| #FA6607 :)
| collegeburner wrote:
| Beef dies in the wild too so DEADBEEF should not, I do not
| care if they want to use B16D1CC instead :) I can't see why
| CAFEBABE would be offensive though.
|
| ...And honestly I guess I don't care? If people are that
| mad about some levity then I probably do not want to work
| with them.
| yesenadam wrote:
| mike_d wrote:
| From the HN rules:
|
| > Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and
| generic tangents.
| yesenadam wrote:
| I don't understand how any part of that applies to my
| comment at all, sorry. (I take it from the way you quoted
| it at me that you think it does.) "Flamebait" applies to
| the comment I was replying to, though, I think.
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| Francophones might not have the same understanding of the
| distinction as you do.
| mitchdoogle wrote:
| If you want levity, why not just use terms that aren't
| offensive? If you can't think of a joke without being
| sexist or misogynist, then that's on you - don't blame
| others for "not having a sense of humor"
| avgcorrection wrote:
| Dead beef is offensive (potentially) how?
| havblue wrote:
| You might get a pass on #cafebabe if your local baristas
| don't speak 1337.
| amelius wrote:
| 7->T and 6->G is pushing it too far, imho.
| My71staccount wrote:
| spencerchubb wrote:
| i agree, 9 would be better suited as G
| croes wrote:
| It's all capital letters, so 6 = G instead of 9 = g
| warning26 wrote:
| I'd like to have filters to play with different levels of
| substitution. Only alpha, only 3 -> e, etc.
| BaraBatman wrote:
| Isn't LEET === 1337 pretty standard?
| hifikuno wrote:
| For some reason I used to think that 1337 was LEET upside
| down.
| [deleted]
| hunter2_ wrote:
| Bringing up the topic of "leet" actually serves in two
| capacities: not only is it a prime example of 7=T, but
| leetspeak's overall orthography [0] is conceptually similar
| to this "hexwords" site far beyond 7=T.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet#Orthography
| googlryas wrote:
| 2->Z as well. I've been a h4x0r for 25+ years and "21663D"
| looks nothing like "zigged" to me.
| croes wrote:
| But 2 and 6 are more similar to Z and G than 3 are to E.
| yellowapple wrote:
| But then how am I supposed to turn a slur like #FA6607 into a
| nice (might I say _fruity_ ) shade of orange?
| IntrepidWorm wrote:
| Well, we could be more careful about allowing #B16075 to
| design website palettes. :)
| dmead wrote:
| curling_grad wrote:
| The hacker news orange is #ff6600. Pretty close.
| citruscomputing wrote:
| Yeah, if you sort by closeness, this is the closest word.
| [deleted]
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