A few years ago, xkcd created a crowd-sourced color survey to collected real-world hue descriptions. You'll find the hilarious results here.
I've been working on updating my UIColor utilities as part of building a color sampling app. Stumbling across this survey, I decided to add the xkcd colors to my repository, along with code that matched colors to their nearest xkcd equivalents.
What I found is that as delightful as the sourced color descriptions are, that they were rather full of misspellings, for example "urple".
So I put togeth