HP has been doing some very cool things around color lately. One thing I recently stumbled onto is their Color Thesaurus. You enter in a color name and it gives you 4 similar named colors and 4 opposite colors. I used the tool to create the basic color wheel info below, but dive in and find out what colors are similar to Rose, Grass, Aqua, Ivory, etc.

Red		Synonyms   Rouge      Ruby Red      Cherry      Crimson Red
Orange		Synonyms   Tangerine      Orange Juice      Pumpkin Pie      Burnt Orange

Yellow		Synonyms   Dirty Yellow      Canary      Greenish Yellow      Mustard Yellow
Green		Synonyms   Kelly      Grass      Emerald      Algae
Blue		Synonyms   Dutch Blue      Ocean      Sky Blue      Azure
Violet		Synonyms   Purple      Grape      Plum      Aubergine

 
 

The HP On-Line Color Thesaurus

The results that are returned are a large color square with a rendering of the color if it was found. If the name was not found, for example “greeb” was entered, then the next nearest color name in terms of edit distance, in this case “green”, will be returned. So no you won’t have to remember how to spell fuchsia. In addition to the colored square are the corresponding RGB and hexidecimal values. Finally there is a note about how common the color name is. Below this are the color synonyms and antonyms. Each column has smaller color squares rendering the color names and the names with links so that you can easily click-through to these names. The results are based on analysis of 20,000+ color name database in English collected from a 20+ language ongoing online color naming experiment.