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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: colours</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/colours.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2010-05-05T15:59:00+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Color Survey Results</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/5/colour/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2010-05-05T15:59:00+00:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T15:59:00+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/5/colour/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/"&gt;Color Survey Results&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
XKCD asked anonymous netizens to provide names for random colours. The results (collated from 222,500 user sessions that named over 5 million colours) are fascinating.


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