What is this color called?
Turn any hex or RGB code into a human name — the reverse of a color picker. Great for naming design tokens, describing colors to clients, or settling arguments.
Matched by perceptual distance (CIEDE2000), not raw RGB — so the names actually look like your color.
How color naming works here
There's no official registry of color names — but there is a remarkable community dataset of over 30,000 named colors, from classics like Crimson to gems like Dragon's Blood. We search all of them for every lookup.
The matching matters more than the list.Naive tools measure distance in RGB, where the math says two colors are close even when your eyes disagree. We convert to Lab space and use CIEDE2000 — the same perceptual difference formula used in print quality control — so the top match is the name that genuinely looks like your color, not just a nearby number.
Why alternatives are shown: names are subjective at the boundaries. A muted green-gray might be "sage" to a designer and "artichoke" to a paint brand. The ΔE value next to each alternative tells you how perceptually far it is — below 2 is nearly indistinguishable; above 5 you'd call it a different color.
Got the color in a photo instead of a code? The image analyzer does this same lookup from any pixel you tap.