From: Shez <news@xerez.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: hex colour schemes
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 03:47:36 +0000
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There was some talk on a.f.c recently of making words from hex (C0FFEE,
DEADBEEF, etc). As you know, six digit hex codes are used to specify
colours on webpages, so in the interests of science I set to work armed
only with a dictionary, grep, and a browser to find all the interesting
six-letter words that could be spelled in hex. My results are shown
below, with a subjective description of the resultant colours.

Case has been determined by what gives the correct impression as to
whether a "1" is "I" (i) or "l" (L). For this reason, words including
both "i" and "l" are excluded as they don't read right. I also excluded
"g" and "z", as I didn't find "9" and "2" convincing lookalikes for
these, although I know that on a calculator display they can be passed
off as such.

The best way to view this table is by pasting it into a html document,
for which it is ready-formatted. 

(Incidentally, some browsers will actually accept any word at all as a
colour string, even ones using non-hex digits, eg. bgcolor=#spurious,
with the illegal digits being interpreted as zeroes. Obviously you can't
rely on this working on all browsers though.)

<table width=100%>
<tr><td bgcolor=#ACAC1A> ACAC1A, ACAD1A: olive
<tr><td bgcolor=#AC1D1C> AC1D1C: brick red
<tr><td bgcolor=#a1bed0> a1bed0: pale dusty blue
<tr><td bgcolor=#a11e1e> a11e1e: brick orange
<tr><td bgcolor=#babb1e> babb1e: mustard green
<tr><td bgcolor=#BAB1ED> BAB1ED: lilac
<tr><td bgcolor=#baff1e> baff1e: lime
<tr><td bgcolor=#ba11ad> ba11ad: purple
<tr><td bgcolor=#ba11ed> ba11ed: purple
<tr><td bgcolor=#beaded> beaded: lilac
<tr><td bgcolor=#bedded> bedded: pale blue
<tr><td bgcolor=#befa11> befa11: lime
<tr><td bgcolor=#B0D1CE> B0D1CE: greenish grey
<tr><td bgcolor=#B0D1ED> B0D1ED: pale blue
<tr><td bgcolor=#C0FFEE> C0FFEE: v. pale blue
<tr><td bgcolor=#dabb1e> dabb1e: mustard
<tr><td bgcolor=#DEC1DE> DEC1DE, DEC0DE: mauve
<tr><td bgcolor=#deface> deface: v.pale green
<tr><td bgcolor=#d0ab1e> d0ab1e: dark mustard
<tr><td bgcolor=#d0dd1e> d0dd1e: olive yellow
<tr><td bgcolor=#d00d1e> d00d1e: red
<tr><td bgcolor=#efface> efface: greenish magnolia
<tr><td bgcolor=#fab1ed> fab1ed: pink
<tr><td bgcolor=#facade> facade: pale red/pink
<tr><td bgcolor=#feeb1e> feeb1e: yellow
<tr><td bgcolor=#f1eece> f1eece: magnolia
<tr><td bgcolor=#f0lded> f0lded: fucshia
<tr><td bgcolor=#10D1DE> 10D1DE: cyany blue
<tr><td bgcolor=#1eaded> 1eaded, 1eafed, 1oaded: paleish blue
<tr><td bgcolor=#1oca1e> 1oca1e: green
<tr><td bgcolor=#0FF1CE> 0FF1CE: cyan 
</table>

-Shez.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: hex colour schemes
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This is reminiscent of high school when I had a scientific calculator
that could do hex (as well as binary and octadecimal, a very cool and
new thing for a mainstream calculator at the time).  While it was handy
for its intended purpose, it was also highly entertaining, as a friend
and I spent much of our math class making hex 'words' and passing it
back and forth.

Shez <news@xerez.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> There was some talk on a.f.c recently of making words from hex (C0FFEE,
> DEADBEEF, etc). As you know, six digit hex codes are used to specify
> colours on webpages, so in the interests of science I set to work armed
> only with a dictionary, grep, and a browser to find all the interesting
> six-letter words that could be spelled in hex.


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