Visualizing Colors in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Quick hack to visualize use of colors in McCarthy's The Road.
Rather ugly, in fact. Some of my concerns are documented in the script's docstring. It's a quick hack.
Most recently updated 27 October 2015. Licensed under the GPL v3+.
The following color mappings have been used:
| color name | HTML color value |
|---|---|
| black | #000000 |
| white | #000000 |
| bonecolored | #FFFFF0 (="ivory") |
| candlecolored | #FFFAFA (="snow") |
| gray | #808080 |
| silver | #c0c0c0 |
| ironcolored | #d4d7d9 |
| leadcolored | #5e5c59 (=Australian Standard AS2700 N55) |
| brown | #A52A2A |
| mahogany | #C04000 |
| green | #00ff00 |
| blue | #0000ff |
| grayblue | #8080bf |
| lilac | #C8A2C8 |
| rose | #FF007F |
| red | #ff0000 |
| orange | #FFA500 |
| yellow | #FFFF00 |
| amber | #FFBF00 |
| gold | #FFD700 |
Sources for these decisions include W3School's list of standard browser colors, Wikipedia's entries for color names, and Encycolorpedia.