Names of Colors in Airtable

[Rachel_Passmore]

Does anyone know the names of the colors in Airtable? Thank you.

[Databaser]

Hi @Rachel_Passmore and welcome to the community!

I didn’t find any color information, but you can upload your image to https://color.adobe.com/nl/create/image and find out easily.

[Rachel_Passmore]

Thank you for the suggestion! After uploading, I received 5 numbers associated with 5 colors but not names…hmm.

[Bill_French]

Rachel_Passmore:

I received 5 numbers associated with 5 colors

Those are HEX values. Since there are exactly 16,777,216 possible hex color code combinations, no one has bothered to name them all. Feel free to start though. :winking_face: I think 64 of them have been named, so that’s a good start.

[Rachel_Passmore]

Thank you! I am trying to figure out the names of the 40 colors presented in Airtable – seems like if Airtable provides these colors to every user then they would have names associated with them?

[Bill_French]

Rachel_Passmore:

… if Airtable provides these colors to every user then they would have names associated with them?

I think you’re looking for this.

[Rachel_Passmore · Accepted solution]

I got a response from Airtable Support with what I was looking for – thanks for your suggestions!

[Bill_French]

Can you share that link here so others can access it too?

[Databaser]

You’re welcome! You can drag and drop the 5 circles to the other colors to change the 5 that are selected. Good that you’ve gotten the names also.

[Rachel_Passmore]

I did not receive a link, I only received an attachment. I attached it here again.

[Bill_French]

That document is a little helpful, but you can’t copy or search for color names or hex values from an image. [sigh]

[kuovonne]

The names of the colors in the attachment that @Rachel_Passmore shared match the names of the colors in the Custom Apps SDK that @Bill.French linked to. The Custom Apps SDK also provides the getRgbForColor or getHexForColor functions to get the numeric values.

I find it interesting that there are 5 flavors of each the ten color in the image and in the Custom Apps SDK. However, I see only 4 flavors of each of the ten colors when using the user interface.

[Bill_French]

kuovonne:

I see only 4 flavors of each of the ten colors when using the user interface.

Um, possible explained by an intentional compliance with a web-safe palette? Maybe?