+1 this is a great idea and I think it would make a good contribution to 
NoveltyColors.jl

On Monday, November 30, 2015 at 4:38:10 PM UTC-6, Alex Mellnik wrote:
>
> On a related note, I've been thinking that it would be nice to include the 
> results of the xkcd color survey <https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/> in 
> Colors.jl.  Right now it has the CSS/SVG and X11 colors which is great for 
> standardization, but sometimes you want to be able to get a RGB value 
> corresponding to fairly specific and easy-to-remember color names (mocha, 
> cerulean blue, etc).  I was originally going to stick it in a different 
> package, but there might be a nice way to separate these names in Colors.jl
>
> -A
>
> On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 2:08:35 PM UTC-8, Randy Zwitch wrote:
>>
>> Since the Julia ecosystem is getting bigger, I figured I'd propose this 
>> here first and see what people think is the right way forward (instead of 
>> wasting people's time at METADATA)
>>
>> In the R community, they've created two packages of novelty color 
>> schemes: Wes Anderson <https://github.com/karthik/wesanderson> and 
>> Beyonce <https://github.com/dill/beyonce>. While humorous, these color 
>> palettes are interesting to me and I'd like to make them available in 
>> Vega.jl (and Julia more broadly). Should I:
>>
>> 1) Not do it at all....because this is a serious, scientific community!
>> 2) Do two separate packages, mimicking R
>> 3) Create a single NoveltyColors.jl package, in case there are other 
>> palettes that come up in the future
>> 4) Make a feature request at Colors.jl (really not my favorite choice, 
>> since there is so much cited research behind the palettes)
>>
>> I neglected to mention ColorBrewer.jl (which Vega.jl uses), since 
>> ColorBrewer is a known entity in the plotting community.
>>
>> What do people think? Note, I'm not looking for anyone to do the work 
>> (I'll do it), just looking for packaging input.
>>
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