Martin Krzywinski Color Table

Martin Krzywinski's Color Name Database is a comprehensive resource containing 9,284 named colors with conversions across multiple color spaces.

Overview

This color table combines multiple color name lists into a single centralized resource, including colors from:

• bang-v2
• beer SRM chart
• colorhexa
• crayola
• n3
• ntc
• pantone
• raveling
• resene
• rgb.txt (X11)
• steve.hollasch
• wikipedia
• xkcd

Features

• 9,284 named colors with RGB coordinates
• Multi-space conversions: RGB, HSV, XYZ, Lab, LCH, CMYK
• Color space conversion tables for all even (r,g,b) combinations (2,097,152 colors)
• Nearest neighbor analysis using ΔE in Lab space for color distance
• Swatch visualization sorted by perceptual hue, brightness, and chroma

Downloads

The website provides downloadable resources:

• Color name and space conversion table for all named colors
• Brief list with RGB components and names only
• Archive of parsed and tidied color lists
• Complete conversion table for 2M RGB colors (215 MB)

Usage

This resource can be particularly useful when:

• Looking up standardized color names
• Working with color matching and similarity
• Understanding perceptual color relationships
• Implementing named color registries
• Researching color space conversions

Visit the official website to explore the full database and download the color tables.