How to generate color name from RGB Values?

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Actually i using color extender tool to generate the colors....while i'm picking the colors, this tools return only hexadecimal values ...but i need to generate color name too...How to generate color name from this hex or RGB values????

Posted 12-Dec-12 19:19pm

Deenuji

Updated 12-Dec-12 19:21pm

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Zaf Khan · Answer 1 · 2012-12-12T19:21:00

Solution 1

You will have to cross reference the RGB values in a lookup table which contains the RECOGNISED colors

Posted 12-Dec-12 19:21pm

Zaf Khan

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Deenuji 13-Dec-12 1:28am

yaa. but i need to generate colors name while i'm picking the colors in that table!!!!

Zaf Khan 13-Dec-12 1:46am

Only RECOGNISED colors will be Recognised!

If you name a color something like Silver Ribbon or Jet Blue if its not recognised then it wont be of any use because it wont be recognised.

You can find recognised colors on W3Schools.com
link: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp

*Suvabrata Roy* · Answer 2 · 2012-12-12T19:34:00

Solution 2

http://www.cambiaresearch.com/articles/25/convert-hex-string-to-dotnet-color[^]

Enjoy

Posted 12-Dec-12 19:34pm

Suvabrata Roy

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Deenuji 13-Dec-12 3:16am

it doesn't return the color name........

Suvabrata Roy 13-Dec-12 3:23am

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7791710/convert-hex-code-to-color-name

try this