Reintroduce color names

[racingjulius]

Describe the bug

After the color pick, Eye Dropper included the color name (e.g."darkorange"); but now, this resource isn't present

Expected Behavior

The color name

Steps To Reproduce

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Screenshots

Operating system

Windows

Browser version

chrome

Anything else?

No response

[kepi]

Thanks for the report.

This isn't exactly bug, as current behavior was intentionally introduced in latest version. Citing Changelog:

Color boxes for new and current color in popup now display short hex code and color name if there is an exact match #136, #192.

You can check, that color name will display if there is exact match to web colors. Try picking ie. white/black color. Previous behavior was problematic for web developers, as named color we displayed had different hex than one they picked.

But don't worry, I'm aware of multiple use cases for people, who need only approximate colors and I'm working on re-introducing this through options in future releases.

It will be great if you can describe what your use case is? What are you using name of colors for?

[ElectricWarr]

Not OP but I'm somewhat colour blind and for me the "approximate" colour names was extremely useful!

Aware this is a fairly niche use-case, but it was surprisingly difficult to find an extension with that feature - might I suggest a toggle in settings to use the old implementation, and perhaps later an indicator to make it clear the name is an "approximate match"?

[kepi]

This is currently on top of my TODO list as I originally didn't realize the impact. Unfortunately it isn't easy to just put it back, as I get completely rid of original color library.

On the bright side, I hope that new implementation will help you to really know what the closest color is. Original implementation was not only "inexact" but returning wrong impression - i.e. brown for color which was without doubt more close to red.

Anyway what really interests me is better understanding of your needs. What is in my mind now:

1. you only want to know basic colors like red, green, blue, yellow, ...
2. you want to know fancy color name like "Azure Radiance", "Pacific Blue", etc.
3. both
4. something else :)

Thanks

[ElectricWarr]

Wow! For me the closest primary/secondary colour would be enough, but I don't think that would support the rest of your users the best.

Knowing the true closest "fancy colour name" (is there a formal name for those? "Web Colours" seems like a subset) sounds like it would be a really useful feature in general, and I could work with that 👍