Over at WeatherSealed, Stephen Von Worley  took the data from the XKCD color survey and plotted it in an interesting new way that shows just how popular various names are used for various colors.

The Color Strata includes the 200 most common color names (excluding black-white-grayish tones), organized by hue horizontally and relative usage vertically, stacked by overall popularity, shaded representatively, and labeled where possible. Besides filtering spam, ignoring cruft, normalizing grey to gray, and correcting the most egregious misspellings (here’s looking at you, fuchsia), the results are otherwise unadulterated. As such, similar color names, like sea green, seafoam green, and seafoam, each appear separately. They’re synonymous… or are they?

If you think that’s neat, then definitely check out his “smoothed” version. Instant Wallpaper Classic.

via The Color Strata – Color Names, Common And Less So, Compared.