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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.. ;)

jan 13, 2011: Lots more hex color words here

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  1. December 4th, 2009 at 01:05 #1

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

  2. myquealer
    December 4th, 2009 at 01:33 #2

    #faded1
    #beaded
    #dead86
    #BadCab

  3. December 4th, 2009 at 02:01 #3

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

  4. December 4th, 2009 at 02:51 #4

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

  5. Gonzalo González Mora
    December 4th, 2009 at 06:16 #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. December 4th, 2009 at 07:09 #6

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

  7. December 4th, 2009 at 08:51 #7

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

  8. Huggz
    December 4th, 2009 at 08:58 #8

    50D0FF

  9. December 4th, 2009 at 08:59 #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
    December 4th, 2009 at 11:46 #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. December 4th, 2009 at 13:18 #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. December 4th, 2009 at 13:46 #12

    let me see if I can express a thought :)

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

  13. December 7th, 2009 at 19:05 #13

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

    #b00b1e

  14. January 5th, 2010 at 13:24 #14

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

  15. January 15th, 2010 at 17:45 #15

    #FACE8D

  16. January 15th, 2010 at 18:01 #16

    #B06135 (bogies if you squint)

  17. January 18th, 2010 at 21:42 #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
    February 23rd, 2010 at 12:36 #18

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

  19. February 23rd, 2010 at 12:44 #19

    Fee Fi Fo Fum, probably.

  20. May 6th, 2010 at 21:55 #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 )

  21. May 16th, 2011 at 01:14 #21
  22. December 19th, 2011 at 06:26 #22

    #1CE1CE baby!

  23. May 8th, 2012 at 07:20 #23

    #0ff1ce

    You could use this one as so many things!
    Like making it work in a program to make something rotate at a certain speed by making it a temperature (Argh how do I explain that one?)

    Off Ice as it is "off 1 key" = Off ice where ice = cold, attached to slow

    That will make no sense to anyone no doubt but it it does to me :)

    Think Colour temperature magnitudes but used with jquery to react to control mechanisms or along those lines (sort of like a colour coded flagging system to rate stuff like Google does b4 it envelopes stuff in it's pearls or delivers things as the best pearl)

    Some stuff on colour magnitude and temperature here > http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1943ApJ….98..302S

    I doubt I am making much sense but I reckon it is as simple as using hex numbers and electromagnetism along with code to make a pretty neat power generator/motor

    Of course it makese sense if you see hex numbers as though seeing them makes reactions. hmm I am not explaining things well me thinks.

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