Lookup color by English descriptive name or phrase

[yosun]

Hi! I notice you provide the usual rgb,hsl endpoints and also supply the English descriptive name of the color - wondering if lookup could occur from that

[joshbeckman]

So, the reason I haven't implemented lookup-by-word is because the caller would have to send the same word that matches the source data. With rgb/hsl/etc., they are numerical values, which means they lie on a range, which means that if the caller supplies something not exactly the same as the data, we can still resolve to a known value by searching the range for adjacent data/values. With words, it's a lot tougher because words aren't so easily 'near' each other. :)

[harbar20]

It's possible to use a fuzzy search. Maybe provide the top 3 closest colors that match the queried English name or phrase?

[joshbeckman]

Do you mean that the handler would perform a semantic analysis against the provided string and try to map that to color words? I think that might have a very low hit-rate...