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Memorable hex colors

December 4th, 2009

Hopefully this will save you a trip back to Photoshop's color picker.

  • #b00b00
  • #de1e7e
  • #e1e100
  • #BADA55
  • #F0FEAF
  • #ac1d1c
  • #facade

These ones are memorable, but not terribly color-appropriate:

  • #c0ffee
  • #defec8
  • #deface
  • #0ff1ce
  • #a55

Thx for the awesome suggestions: @mrspeaker, @8centsaday, @wilto, @lrbabe, @twalve
If you have any good ones to add, holler in the comments!

I guess I have a thing for hex colors.. ;)

Paul Irish front-end development

  1. #1

    #faceb0 (spotted on a whiteboard at the Facebook HQ).

  2. myquealer
    #2

    #faded1
    #beaded
    #dead86
    #BadCab

  3. #3

    #decaff (I had tweeted this one to you as well.)

  4. #4

    Perhaps not the niftiest on the list, but…
    #f00
    #f00ba5
    #f10a7ed

  5. Gonzalo González Mora
    #5

    Haha that’s awesome :D I found this website with a few more (but with no letters, so there must be a lot more): Hex color words

  6. #6

    DEF1ED
    BED
    FAD
    1D1075
    F00D1E
    5EA
    BE51DE
    C0B
    BEA575
    FEA575
    DADD1E

  7. #7

    #C4AF3D = Chafed
    #BA54ED = Bashed
    #1D15C0 = I Disco
    #5ADB10 = Sad Bio
    #BADD0C = Bad Doc
    #AHFAD3 = Ah Fade
    #1BA51C = I Basic

  8. Huggz
    #8

    50D0FF

  9. #9

    #D022BE = Nietzsche
    #BE22DO = Kant
    #D0BED0 = Sinatra

    XD

    Kinda ripped that off from a thing I saw in the past, but thats the hex version of it.

  10. Emile Daigle
    #10

    http://www.unauthorized.org/ a similarly themed brain fart site i made. adding in the numeric substitutions would be nice :) http://www.unauthorized.org/

  11. #11

    I use:

    #f1f1f1 (light grey)
    #efefef (darker but still light grey)
    #ccc (darker grey)
    #777 (more darker grey)

    all the time. grey seems to work with any color

  12. #12

    let me see if I can express a thought :)

    #Bad #fad, #dad! #Add #cad, #0dd #c0d.
    #Deb #ebb #cab. #B0f, #B0b!

  13. #13

    haha I like how #b00b00 is a deep red, an appropriate error alert colour.

    #b00b1e

  14. #14

    A designer recently told me her favorite hex color is #eff0ff, especially for particularly irksome clients.

  15. #15

    #FACE8D

  16. #16

    #B06135 (bogies if you squint)

  17. #17

    I ran a script to trawl through the combos. A few more interesting ones were acce55, bedded, d00dad, deba5e, dec0de, fa5cia, 0b5e55, and (for the Brits) 50dded. The script and list are at http://mini.softwareas.com/more-memorable-hex-colors

  18. jan
    #18

    Okay, I cannot figure out F0FEAF, and it's driving me bonkers.
    WTF is it?

  19. #19

    Fee Fi Fo Fum, probably.

  20. #20

    I was reading a post by @ded today and I though it would be really cool if he used #DED in his color palette. Too bad it's a sort of pukey chartreuse.

    (Looking up that color, I found another hex word site: http://www.nsftools.com/tips/HexWords.htm )

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