Color Name Finder
Find the closest named color to any hex value.
Three steps
How to use it
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Enter a hex value
Or an RGB or HSL string; anything the picker understands works here.
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Read the matches
The closest named color appears first, with a perceptual distance score. Anything under about 2 is a match nobody could tell apart by eye.
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Open the match
Each result links to that color's full page, with its shades, harmonies and contrast data.
About this tool
Matching is done by CIE76 ΔE over L*a*b*, not by RGB distance. This matters more than it sounds. RGB distance treats all three channels as equally important, so it will happily call a dark navy the nearest match to a dark olive because the numbers are close. A result no human would accept. LAB is built around perceptual uniformity, so the distances it reports correspond to how different the colors actually look.
As a rough guide to the ΔE numbers: below 1 is imperceptible, 1 to 2 requires close attention to spot, 2 to 10 is a clear difference, and above 10 the colors are plainly unrelated.