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

12 points by collypops ↗ HN
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

8 comments

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krrishd
And I just spent 30 minutes playing.....
cstrat
love the simple idea, very fun.

I got more correct than I would like to admit.

rodw
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.
wikwocket
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. ;)

rodw
> 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.

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