xkcd: Color Names From the Color Survey by Randall Munroe of XKCD

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Color Names From the Color Survey by Randall Munroe of XKCD

Description

A data frame mapping hex codes for 949 colors to their consensus names in the XKCD color survey.

Usage

data(xkcd)

Format

A data frame with two columns and 949 rows.

Details

This data set contains the names and hex codes for 949 color names identified as consistent in the Color Survey run by Randall Munroe at XKCD. During the online survey, more than five million color swatches were named across 222,500 user sessions. In the blog post describing the results, Munroe describes the method he used to come up with a list of "consensus" color names. He also says the text file should contain 954 color names, but the downloaded text file only contained 949. Data were reformatted to be usable as a data frame in R, with underscores inserted in place of spaces in multi-word color names.

Source

Our main source was the text file linked to from https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/.

See Also

xkcdNames

Examples

data(xkcd)
head(xkcd)

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