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Color Name Recognizer Camera

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#156,856 of 719,896 by ratings on Apple · #11,689 of 60,382 in Utilities

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Description

What is the name of this color?

Point your camera at an object and Color Name Recognizer Camera identifies the color in real time. Along with a human-readable name, the app shows RGB, hexadecimal, HSV, and CIE L*a*b values for the sampled color.

Choose a simple color-name table for familiar names or a larger table for more specific results. Free users can select tables containing up to 50 base color names. The 100-name table requires Premium. Premium users can use multilingual tables containing up to 1,500 names.

FEATURES

• Recognize color names in real time with the camera
• Inspect RGB, #RRGGBB hexadecimal, HSV, and CIE L*a*b values
• Adjust camera zoom and the sampling-region size
• Pause the camera to inspect a stable result
• Magnify the sampling area
• View related and similar color names
• Generate complementary, analogous, monochromatic, triadic, split-complementary, and tetradic color palettes
• Hear the recognized color name spoken aloud
• Explore color contrast grids
• Check exact WCAG contrast ratios, AA/AAA results, and accessible alternatives
• Audit every color pair in a Palette Project
• Describe colors by tone, intensity, temperature, and broad color family
• Preview estimated protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, and monochromacy appearances
• Compare two colors for possible color-vision confusion
• Enable optional stable spoken identification and haptic family-change alerts on the live camera
• Build colors manually in RGB, HSV, and CIE L*a*b spaces
• Search by color name or HEX and compare the nearest named matches
• Pick a color from a photograph
• Extract a dominant color palette from an image
• Save colors to a local library
• Revisit automatically deduplicated Recently Identified colors
• Export saved colors and palettes with Premium access

COLOR-NAME LANGUAGES

Color-name tables are available in English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. The app interface also supports additional localized languages.

FREE AND PREMIUM ACCESS

Free:
• 30- and 50-name base color tables
• Core camera recognition, color values, manual tools, image tools, and saved colors
• Color Harmony generation and HEX copying
• Searchable Palette Projects with ordered swatches, names, notes, tags, and duplication
• WCAG Contrast Checker with live previews and complete palette audits
• Color Vision Assistant with descriptions, profile simulations, confusion advisories, and optional camera feedback
• A limited number of similar-color results

Premium:
• Multilingual base color-name tables from 30 through 1,500 names
• More similar-color results
• Save Color Harmony palettes to Palette Projects and Saved Colors
• Export palettes as CSS or JSON

COLOR VALUES

RGB components are shown from 0 to 255. Hexadecimal values use the #RRGGBB format. HSV shows hue, saturation, and value. CIE L*a*b uses the D65 reference white and provides a perceptual representation of color.

Recognition results can vary with lighting, reflections, camera exposure, and device characteristics. The app is an identification aid and is not a calibrated colorimeter.

Color Vision Assistant simulations and confusion advisories are estimates for accessibility and design review. They are not a medical test or diagnosis and do not represent every person's perception.

SUBSCRIPTIONS AND PURCHASES

Available products, prices, trial eligibility, and billing periods are displayed on the in-app purchase screen and confirmed by the App Store. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings. Restore Purchases is available for eligible purchases made with the same Apple Account.

Privacy Policy:
https://whitewhalesoft.com/APPS/ColorNameRecognizerCamera/Privacy.html

Terms of Use:
https://whitewhalesoft.com/APPS/ColorNameRecognizerCamera/Terms.html

Questions or suggestions?
zhaoxiaojian@hotmail.com

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