What Color Is This? App Names Colors Instantly From Camera Input, Settling 10-Year Dress Debates
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Updated · kottke.org · May 18
What Color Is This? App Names Colors Instantly From Camera Input, Settling 10-Year Dress Debates
2 articles · Updated · kottke.org · May 18
What Color Is This? identifies a color as soon as a user points a camera at an object, turning dresses, paint swatches, flowers and drawings into instant labels.
The app goes beyond basic categories like blue by offering increasingly specific names such as light blue and Tiffany blue, making it more useful for quick visual distinctions.
Its appeal is practical and playful at once: it can help resolve everyday arguments over whether something is gray or brown and revive the internet’s 10-year-old white-and-gold versus black-and-blue dress debate.
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