Your name is a color!

[akaSM]

Did you know that pretty much any word can be a color? Well, kinda. You know, when changing the font's color something like this appears:

[ COLOR="your color"]your text[/COLOR]

So, what's this thread about? Post something here using your username as a color ^_^

I found this after being silly and using "awesome" as my signature's color :P. How does it work? I have no idea, but maybe one of you do.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

You are aware of the fact that you post in white?

EDIT: Well, shit. Seems Firefox doesn't support these colors for some reason, while Chrome does.

[akaSM]

Hmm, I tested it with Chrome, Opera mini and mobile, and my phone's browser, I haven't used Firefox in a while, sorry. Also, at least my sig's color changes between some purplish color and a green-yellow color depending on the browser ^_^.

[Whomper]

Huh... neat.

[The SSB Intern]

How is this a forum game?

[CABAL49]

How is this a forum game?

Mess with the heads of the people

[phil_]

IT'S ALL WHITE AND I WILL NOT USE A DIFFERENT BROWSER!

[Fenris]

Moving this to General!

HAHAHAHAHA that is fucking fantastic.

[Premmy]

Using firefox right now

[Professor Smarmiarty]

It's all white. You areall insane! Insane and mad!

[russianreversal]

Well isn't that something.

I may start typing in this from now on.

Also, you missed a quotation mark, Premmy.

[Amake]

Well this is kinda ironic.

[Aldurin]

fuck guys now I'm gonna have to search my linux package list for Chrome
EDIT: This is awesome, worth having to adjust to the "open in new tab" and "open in new window" being switched.
EDIT2: Apparently my username and "butts" makes the same color.

[MuMu]

I had to use IE to do this...

It better turn into the best color man ever saw

[krogothwolf]

LIES LIES AND MORE LIES! FIREFOX IS THE ONLY BROWSER!!"

[Grimpond]

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

[Kim]

This can only be disappointing.

[bluestarultor]

I'll need to open this in IE to see it. Firefox is actually CSS-compliant.


EDIT: Ironic. It's dark red in IE. Also, this only works because NPF is still using the deprecated <font> tags. From my doing stuff on FFWiki, the same stuff doesn't happen using <span>.

[POS Industries]

Fine, lemme switch over to IE...

This thread is supergreen!

[Kim]

I'm using Firefox and it works.

[Doc ock rokc]

I know this is going to be retarded

[akaSM]

Hey, it seems many words can get 2 colors depending on the browser (Opera Mini and Chrome)

My sig in chrome
My sig in Opera

IG's text in Chrome
IG's text in Opera

Cabal49's text in Chrome
Cabal49's text in Opera

russianreversal's text in Chrome
russianreversal's text in Opera

IQ in Chrome
IQ in Opera

Aldurin and butts in Chrome
Aldurin in Opera
Aldurin's butts in Opera
EvilEarl in Chrome
EvilEarl in Opera

krogothwolf in Chrome
krogothwolf in Opera

Grimpond in Chrome
Grimpond in Opera

POS in Chrome
POS in Opera

Also, I find it neat that my sig has 2 opposite colors in the browsers I tried, an awesome color indeed ^_^

[Ryong]

This is on Chrome.

Seems like black is really common.

[Arcanum]

I'll have to dust off IE eventually to see how this turned out.

[Mr.Bookworm]

Howabout that.

How does it determine color, anyway?

[Token]

Huh.
Double Huh.

EDIT
akaSM, if this is what I think it is, I will hurt you.
Same with this one.

[akaSM]

Huh.
Double Huh.

FTFY

[Eltargrim]

Well, let's see what I get.

EDIT: I can live with this.

[Token]

FTFY

http://i55.tinypic.com/29yobb7.png

[Bard The 5th LW]

What does this look like even

[Pip Boy]

This is my text here.
And this is my steam tag.

WE SHALL SEE.

[lazy man]

I have to stop lurking to do this, but my curiosity's been piqued.

Now to switch to IE and find out....... And it's BLUUUUUE! Yeah, I don't care what you other people see, it's blue.

[synkr0nized]

Howabout that.

How does it determine color, anyway?

Normally, the HTML font tag passes the hexadecimal value for colors or known color names. The browser then reads this information and uses it to generate the text in the appropriate color on your screen.

It seems that Firefox is coded to ignore values that are not valid, being a pretty hardcore standards-compliant program, but Opera, Chrome, IE, etc. are taking these strings of characters and trying to match them to color values. Without seeing the source code of these browsers, I assume there's just some kind of comparison/match being made based on the letters entered. Using deprecated tags can lead to fun, I guess! This is certainly evidence to support not using deprecated tags in actual development, though. ;)

Have any of you discovered if there is a maximum length you can use to get the same color? In other words, could, say, "POS Industries" be shortened to something like "POS Indu" and still have the same color for all values between, inclusive?


Yes, I am running Firefox, so there's no real point in me testing this.

[DFM]

I'm disappointed.

Edit: I'm invisible to me, that's just depressing.

[Mr.Bookworm]

Ah. Thanks. Let's find out!

Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words

Taking a letter out from "POSIndustries" at every line.

[mauve]

mauvemage

......blue?

[Azisien]

Survey says...

Yeah that'll do.

[POS Industries]

Worth noting that it doesn't work if you use two words. You have to remove the spaces.

Also: This is my new mod color. Y'all on Opera can suck it.

[Nikose Tyris]

Using Just Nikose. [Black.]

Using NikoseTyris. [LimeGreen]

Oh fuck.

[Bob The Mercenary]

Let's see what this does.

Ooh, I like.

[synkr0nized]

Ah. Thanks. Let's find out!

Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words
Words

Taking a letter out from "POSIndustries" at every line.

Interesting, Bookworm (now that I loaded it in another browser to see it). I assumed that the browsers were taking the character values and doing some sort of calculation, and this certainly indicates length of the string as well as which characters are used has an effect.

Hmm. I suppose the browsers are just mapping the strings to RGB, and removing letters will reduce the amount of color (or, probably more correctly, darken the hue on the way toward black).

[BitVyper]

Oooh, pretty.

[Fenris]

synkr0nized

Synkronized

Synchronized

[Premmy]

Jesus, I can't look at that, get rid of it, Fen

[Wigmund]

I hate you all for making me open Internet Explorer

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Ok then, let's see what happens here. Damn, I was expecting so much more.

[akaSM]

So, both Mauve and Synk are blue, huh? I wonder...

Seil

Seilier

Seiliest

EDIT: Hey, red is closer to pink than black, right?

EDIT 2: I can't believe it...based on color...Synk's posts are seilier than Seil's own posts? :aaa:

[Fenris]

synk comes up blue in chrome. Dunno about IE.

[Bobbey]

Since I'm curious...

It's still white for me...I probably broke it.

[Premmy]

synk comes up blue in chrome. Dunno about IE.
Yeah it's blue

[The SSB Intern]

This is thessbintern.

And here's just ssbintern.

I do love me some blue.

[Ryanderman]

Well?

How about just Ryander?

Ryan?

Nice

[Dracorion]

I wonder what color I am.

[Melfice]

Alright, let's give this a shot then!

Using simply "Melfice" gives me a light blue.
Using "MelficeSilesius" gives me a darker light blue.
Using MelficeMarkusSilesius gives me an orange-like colour.

Very interesting.
(All in Internet Explorer.)

[synkr0nized]

synk comes up blue in chrome. Dunno about IE.

Yeah it's blue


Further proof that using deprecated tags is a travesty and insult.

Interestingly [to me], blue was my favourite color when I was, like, three until I wised up about it.

[ChaoticBrain]

Let me see. (opens up IE)

Puce? Meh. I was hoping for something green.

[silverthundr]

Green? What?
Silver IS a color, of course
But apparently "thunder" is Green
And short an e is Blue. Fun.

[Solid Snake]

Sup y'all, I am now a color.

OR NOT

Does it work without the spacing?

Just Snake now, for grins and giggles.

Dammit, there is a grievous lack of magenta in my assigned color scheme.

[Lost in Time]

So I guess I'm blue. Without spaces of course. So sad I'm not original.

[ChaoticBrain]

So I guess I'm blue.

Da Ba Dee Da Ba Die

[Hatake Kakashi]

Let's try this now.
Interesting.
Wonder how this came about.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

I'll hop on the ban-wagon.

I wonder what this will look like...

Apparently Mark is a very black name.

[Jagos]

Hmmm... Let's see...

Eh, it's decent but...

I can't see it...

[Ecks]

7653

BLACK AND WHITE ARE OUT IN THE UNITED STATES!

Also, on-topic: EckScizor is a reddish color.

Let's try this again shall we?

[Magic_Marker]

Magic_Marker

MM

MAGIC

MARX

[Aerozord]

most amusing reading this thread with firefox, everyone seems to be in on an elaborate prank

[Magic_Marker]

NPF

4CHAN

REDDIT