Whose work this is built on.
Last updated September 22, 2026
Every color page on this site carries a name, and some of those names come from open-source collections other people made and gave away. Two of them are published under the MIT License, which asks that the copyright notice and the permission notice travel with the work. This page is where they travel.
The credit line at the bottom of a color page says which sources that page drew on. The notices below cover the two MIT-licensed ones wherever they appear.
color-name-list
The largest collection, by David Aerne - github.com/meodai/color-names.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2017 David Aerne
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.css-color-names
The 148 CSS named colors, by Dave Eddy - github.com/bahamas10/css-color-names. Credited on a color page as CSS, since that is what the names are.
Copyright 2018 Dave Eddy <dave@daveeddy.com>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.The other sources a color page may cite
Named here so the list above isn't mistaken for the whole of it.
- XKCD color survey - released to the public domain under CC0 by Randall Munroe, stated in the survey data's own header. CC0 asks for nothing.
- Name that Color, by Chirag Mehta - CC BY 2.5, which asks for attribution. The credit line on each page that uses it names and links the project.
- ISCC-NBS descriptors, after Centore 2016 - a published system, cited on every page that uses its vocabulary.
- Rhapsody's own names - the 72 ART anchors and their ramp steps. Ours.
Anything else
The ICC (the color standard a press or screen is measured against) printing-condition profiles the converter uses are read, never shipped. No profile is downloadable from this site, and none is bundled into the plugin. Their terms are recorded in full alongside the files themselves.
Think something is missing or credited wrongly? jeff@rhapsodycolor.com. That is a thing worth fixing quickly.