Feature Request: Color Naming

[billdenney]

I recently found myself wanting a way to convert a color to a human-readable name (to automate making captions for figures in reports).

I'd think that this would be implemented as follows:

• Take the color names from colors().
• Clean them up to be more human readable (e.g. convert all the items like "aquamarine4" to "dark aquamarine" and add some spaces to items like "blanched almond"), and
  • This would be the "full color list".
• Simplify the full color list to a shorter selection of a smaller number of colors (how different is "azure3" from "gray" or "wheat3" compared to "tan", really?), and
  • This would be the "simple color list".

For any input color, find the nearest color name (using one of the algorithms here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_difference) and return that to the user. The user could optionally choose either the "simple" or "full" color list (defaulting to simple).

[gaborcsardi]

I like the idea of human readable color names. Reminds me of this project: https://github.com/colorjs/color-namer Maybe we could reuse some of their data?