Show HN: Name That Blue - How well do you know your digital brand colors? | Hacker News Reader

Show HN: Name That Blue - How well do you know your digital brand colors?

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Can you tell Facebook's blue from Instagram's blue? Know your Twitter from your Dropbox? Test your skills using my latest hack:

Name That Blue http://colin-gourlay.com/namethatblue/

Most of the hex values are sourced from http://brandcolors.net/ (thanks @galengidman!), but I'm slowly adding others to make the challenge more engaging.

I'd love to know what you think! Thanks

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Clickable link: http://colin-gourlay.com/namethatblue/

I got 11 out of 12 of these before I stopped in amazement. I felt like I was guessing a lot but I kept being right... clearly branding is a subtle but powerful force!

Oh by the way, you should totally package this as a smartphone game. Based on all the "identify this logo" games out there, it could definitely go viral. Plus it should be easy to program. ;)

> Based on all the "identify this logo" games out there, it could definitely go viral.

This is a clever idea. Given the relative ease of creating such a program you should totally do it.

If it were popular enough, you might even find a way to get smaller companies to "sponsor" their branding coming up in the quiz more often. I didn't really recognize "Behance" in the current quiz, for example, but now I've looked it up to satisfy my curiosity.

I don't know how I feel about promotion, but I's be silly to rule anything out at this stage. Thanks for your comments.

Thanks for the feedback. The app is already in the works!

It's interesting how some of these (Facebook, for example) are so immediately recognizable. I don't even use Facebook but I immediately recognized the "Facebook blue" thanks to (I suppose) those ubiquitous Like buttons. They've done a good job branding.

And I just spent 30 minutes playing.....

love the simple idea, very fun.

I got more correct than I would like to admit.

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