February 26 2008 / (33)

Hex silliness.

The realization that l33tspeak could be applied to hex values in Photoshop led to a few minutes of frivolity.

UPDATE: A few more, based on your suggestions (I can't believe I missed #C0FFEE the first time!) and some additional ones I came up with:

That last one adds a second layer of encryption: 23, 20 and 06 are the numbers of W, T and F in the alphabet.

Got any more ideas?

UPDATE 2: Ian at The Box Factory took the idea in another direction: 1337 Hex in Color.

UPDATE 3: Yet another batch, based on suggestions in the comments and a couple of my own:

Sandy pointed out that because I've been using the "Save for Web" option in Photoshop, these aren't perfectly accurate. If you're planning on using some of these codes in your work for some reason, you'll want to test them first.

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February 28 2008, 03:09 AM / superbobob

And what about #C0FFEE ?

February 28 2008, 03:09 AM / photojunkie

Those would be great t shirt ideas

February 28 2008, 03:49 AM / David Lewis

#C0FFEE

February 28 2008, 04:44 AM / hexcolor

why not deadbeef so 00dead and 00beef

February 28 2008, 06:42 AM / Mike

And you could also have some fun with css shorthand for some colors like #ADD, #BEE etc...

February 28 2008, 07:50 AM / Eric Meyer

For those about to old-school prog rock, let us never forget #ABACAB.

February 28 2008, 09:29 AM / wha

BEEFBABE!

February 28 2008, 09:37 AM / Jinx

#DEFEC8!

February 28 2008, 11:06 AM / Michael

#c0ffee turns out to be some sort of Shamrock Shake green.... It's needs to be tan at least!

February 28 2008, 11:57 AM / Brian

#f1dd1e
#d00d1e

February 28 2008, 12:16 PM / Andrew

Wow, this is the most traffic me3dia's seen in awhile -- where'd I get linked up, or are all of you RSS lurkers?

I guess I should dick around in Photoshop more often. Or maybe just post more often.

February 28 2008, 01:06 PM / Andrew

Ah, thank you, Messrs. Glass and Cederholm.

February 28 2008, 01:17 PM / Jen

SimpleBits linked you. At least, that's how I found you.

Oh, and I also vote for some t-shirts. :)

February 28 2008, 01:34 PM / aj

#ECHO

February 28 2008, 01:35 PM / aj

oops no "H"

February 28 2008, 02:14 PM / how could we have missed this one?

#BEEF - it's neon green!

February 28 2008, 04:36 PM / Scott

#D1993D
#F1A5C0
#AC1D1C
#8AD935
#ACC355
#D15C0
#8A835
#80D135
#83I9E

February 28 2008, 06:30 PM / rugner

#bada55!!!!!

February 29 2008, 06:57 AM / Stuart Langridge

Assuming that i=1, s=5, o=0, we can have:

$ egrep -i '^[abcdefiso]{6}$' /usr/share/dict/words | sed 's/s/5/gi;s/o/0/gi;s/i/1/gi'| xargs

Acad1a Ad1da5 A55151 Be551e B0bb1e Ca551e Debb1e 0de55a aba5ed aba5e5 abbe55 ab1ded ab1de5 ab0ded ab0de5 acac1a accede acce55 ac1d1c ad0be5 a51de5 a55e55 bab1ed bab1e5 ba0bab ba51c5 ba55e5 ba5505 beaded bedded beefed be51de b1a5ed b1a5e5 b0bbed b0d1ce b0d1e5 b00bed b055ed b055e5 cabbed cabb1e caca05 cadd1e ca551a cea5ed cea5e5 c1cada c0bbed c0cc15 c0c0a5 c0dded c0ffee c01fed c051e5 dabbed dad0e5 da15e5 deba5e decade dec1de dec0de deeded deface def1ed def1e5 de1ced de1ce5 d10de5 d15c05 d155ed d155e5 d0d0e5 d0ffed d00dad d055e5 ea51e5 edd1ed edd1e5 efface facade faece5 f1a5c0 f1bbed f1c0e5 f0bbed 1b1ce5 1b15e5 10d15e 0b5e55 0ff1ce 5a55ed 5a55e5 5c0ff5 5eabed 5ecede 5eeded 5155e5 50bbed 50dded

February 29 2008, 07:32 AM / Reduceri

You ruined all the fun, Stuart ;)
Other than that, I didn't know that Linux can do that as well.

February 29 2008, 08:04 AM / Sandor

Stuart FTW.

February 29 2008, 09:04 AM / Xopl

#B1000D

#BADA55

February 29 2008, 09:13 AM / Tibba

Hi there, hex are not only graphix:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak

February 29 2008, 03:19 PM / 5EEC07

yo yves. what up

February 29 2008, 04:41 PM / Becca

I happened upon this site and now am unfortunately aware that my name, BECCA, makes one of my least favorite colors. I think it's called "sea foam," but I like to call it "dolphin vomit."

February 29 2008, 09:41 PM / Ned Batchelder

It's a little less creative, but my scan of the dictionary came up with 136 six-letter color words: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/hexcolors.html

February 29 2008, 10:35 PM / paul yoon

Hey, show a little support for #EFF.

March 01 2008, 06:22 AM / Kosh

#VEGAN

^^ #VEGAN

^^

March 01 2008, 08:36 AM / TIEMEN

Not that this green is much manly, but it would've been fun if #bada55 returned pink. ;)

March 01 2008, 11:41 AM / Josh Millard

I see Stuart and Ned's game ruining and raise you a quartet of varyingly strict word lists that I threw together this morning. Different levels of leetness, for all your ab3c3d4rian needs.

Fun project, Andrew.

March 02 2008, 12:27 PM / Sean

#FAC0FF

March 02 2008, 01:05 PM / wael

thank you

March 19 2008, 02:47 PM / Justin

#d00d00 ?

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