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Comment by duxup | Hacker News Reader

Um... can someone explain a bit what I'm looking at?

It's a long list of Japanese color names with accompanying RGB values. Some are well known in Japan (sakura, nadeshiko), the vast majority are obscure.

They also use an off-the-wall half-Hepburn/half-wapuro romanization scheme that's the virtual equivalent of nails on chalkboard if you care about this sort of thing (CYOHSYUN 長春 etc).

Thank you.

This drove me nuts when I lived in Japan. I can accept "zya". I prefer "ja". GTFO with "jya".

On the plus side, kunrei-shiki romanisation, which is the official government style and has been standardised as ISO 3602, is in practice ignored even by that Japanese government.

In terms of nails on blackboards, I ask that you bathe for a moment in the exquisite splendour of the romanisation that is "Mt Huzi", Japan's highest peak.

Ugh! I share your pain. It's like reading text in English where the author can't figure out the difference between their, there, and they're.

It really is like nails on a blackboard.

> CYOHSYUN 長春

Chōshun.

> Some are well known in Japan (sakura, nadeshiko), the vast majority are obscure.

This project would benefit from a 'common colours' filter.

Named Japanese colors arranged by their similarity to each other.

What's a "Japanese color"? Like, just the names are given in japanese or colors that appear frequently in Japanese media, or?

They are colors traditionally used in Japanese art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_colors_of_Japan

They cite what looks like this book in the footer

https://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Colors-Japan-Japanese/dp/...

Although it references a 2007 edition.

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