Is there an online color wheel that has much more than 24 colors? Or at least a list of colors by spectrum rather than by alphabetical order?
Wikipedia’s article on Color Chart might be a good place to start. Check out the further links.
Not a color wheel, but an exceptionally useful set of color tools I visit almost daily: colrd.com.
Try this for leads:
A color wheel for printed colors or electronic colors?
ColorExplorer has a color wheel and other features for selecting colors.
You do realize, do you, that by no means all colors that we can see, or even have names for, are to be found in the spectrum? Also, most distinguishable colors, whether in the spectrum or not, do not have distinctive or generally accepted names. Indeed, I doubt whether there are anything like as many as 24 nameable colors (at least not with names that most people would recognize and be able to apply) in the spectrum, although there are certainly more distinguishable colors than that.
That looks interesting. What will it do that a regular Google search for a color related term won’t do?
Since the question has been more or less answered, I’d like to get in an all purpose wish that somewhere in the universe there’s a colour wheel for people like me who can barely dress themselves. That is, I can actually put on the clothes but I’m rubbish at putting ‘outfits’ together. I simply cannot work out what colours go well with each other, so I stick to mostly black pants + some other colour on top. I end up looking a bit like a liquorice allsort but nothing actually clashes.
Search me.
I think the thing you are looking for is called a “woman”.
There are the traditional X11 colors from olden-time Unix. There are some quite proto-brony names like PeachPuff, MistyRose, and LemonChiffon. Guess nerds really were the same back then as they are now.
Years ago I created a system of colors that, rather than being a 2D “wheel,” was a 3D cylinder (conventional color wheels don’t take into account tints, shades and saturation). It’s probably on my old Mac, and unobtainable. I’ll poke around and see if I’ve got a copy of it somewhere.
Like HSV and similar? Munsell is too, in a fashion.
For all non-printed colors, some can be converted to cylindrical (it’s hard to visualize!). The CIE LUV and LAB spaces can be converted to LChuv and LChab spaces, respectively. Please note that the non-cylindrical representation of CIE LUV 1976 above is 3-dimensional, just luminance is fixed.
Sadly, I am a woman. It’s not innate, unfortunately.
As njtt points out, only a handful of color names are standard and commonly agreed upon. It really depends on your intended application of the colors to determine which of hundreds of standardized color models and/or tools to suggest to you.
And the boundaries of color names are also language and/or culture bound. Famously, the Japanese language historically considered blue and green to be shades of a single color, ao. Did you mean ao like the sky, or ao like the grass? Iirc, the Russian language today treats dark blue (sinii) and light blue (goluboi) as two separate, discrete colors in a simiar way English treats red and pink as two separate colors, even though pink is arguably just “light red”.
Bingo. You have to ask yourself why you need a color wheel. For example, do you need to create a color-coding system where you need at least X minimum discrete colors? Are you working in a computer graphics environment where your color capabilities are limited by the technology, such as being limited to 32 bit RGB?
I’m just trying to learn more about colors, and want to educate myself regarding the most common, standardized colors beyond the really basic 24 color wheel, probably between 64 and 128 would do. Crayola has a 120 crayon set, but many of the names, such as “macaroni and cheese” are somewhat nonstandard.
The color wheel is preferred because I don’t want an imbalance of colors, such as many hues of blue but less of yellow and so forth.