Closest Named Web Colors

This form finds the 10 closest named web colors to a given hex triplet. The colors are chosen among the 140 distinct web colors from the CSS3 and SVG 1.0 specifications. They are supported in all modern browsers since 2005. Using a named color (in CSS or in JavaScript canvas drawing code) is nice because it is self-documenting.

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Distance formula: RGB (naive) Lab (perceptual)


Page created: June 7, 2015
Page last updated: June 11, 2016