What Color Is Your Name?
Every name has exactly one color — not random, not a quiz. Your letters seed a hash that lands on one precise hue, named from our 7,457-color database. Type a name and meet yours.
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Or get the color of your birth date — Birthday Color →
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🎨- Hue — an FNV-1a hash of your letters lands anywhere on the wheel ( in this case).
- Saturation — your vowel ratio () pushes it richer or calmer, with a little hash jitter.
- Lightness — drawn from the tail of the hash ().
Your birthday has exactly one too — Birthday Color →
Duo mode
Two names, one blend. See where your colors land on the wheel — and what that means.
Share the duo link — both names ride in one URL.
Rarest colors among analyzed names
How analyzed names spread across the wheel
Each analyzed name's hue lands in one of 36 bins — this is where names actually cluster on the wheel. No favorite zones.
How it works
Step 1 — normalize. Accents fold (Zoë → zoe), punctuation drops (O'Brien → obrien), everything goes lowercase. What's left is the bare DNA of the name.
Step 2 — hash. The normalized string runs through an FNV-1a hash. One slice of the seed picks a hue anywhere from 0° to 359.9° — uniformly, so nobody gets a favorite.
Step 3 — shape it. Saturation (chroma) scales with your vowel-to-letter ratio: vowel-heavy names trend richer. Lightness rides the tail of the hash. The color is built in OKLCH, a perceptually uniform space, then converted to sRGB with a gamut clip so nothing clamps into mud.
Step 4 — name it. Every color gets an epithet (like Dusty Blue) plus its nearest match among 7,457 real named colors from CSS/X11, Resene, XKCD and ISCC-NBS.
Everything runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or tracked — a share link carries nothing but the name itself in the URL.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is a name's color determined?
Your letters run through an FNV-1a hash. The seed picks a hue uniformly around the wheel; your vowel ratio pushes saturation up or down; lightness comes from the hash tail. The color is computed in OKLCH, so it stays vivid but never clamps into mud. Same name → same color, always.
Is it random?
No — it's deterministic and the exact same math runs every time, on any device. It just can't be reverse-engineered to look like "you," which is what makes it feel fair.
What does the rarity number mean?
It's the share of analyzed names (126+ in the published stats file) landing in your hue neighborhood. We publish the bins so you can check us — no fake percentiles.
Can two names share a color?
Yes, occasionally — near-zero chroma names ("nearly gray") are the interesting collisions. There is no reroll by design.
What about accents and spaces?
Rémi, Zoë and Björn fold to their base letters; O'Brien becomes obrien. Same sound, same color — punctuation carries no hue.
Can I use my color commercially?
The hex is yours to use in designs; the generated artwork and cards are © graf1x. For a physical print see our posters.
Where do the color names come from?
A curated 7,457-color database (CSS/X11, Resene, XKCD, ISCC-NBS and more). Your color matches its nearest real name — the full DB is browsable in our Color Names tool.
Color Names Poster
A printed reference of over 7,000 named colors — the database behind your name color.
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