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A Bash one-liner to produce a list of HEX color codes that read like (supposedly) valid English words
$ grep -P "^[ABCDEFabcdefOoIi]{6,6}$" /usr/share/dict/words | tr 'OoIi' '0011' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' | awk '{print "#" $0}'
#ACAD1A
#B0BB1E
#DEBB1E
#AB1DED
#ACAC1A
#ACCEDE
#AC1D1C
#BAB1ED
#BA0BAB
#BEADED
#BEDDED
#BEEFED
#B0BBED
#B0D1CE
#B00BED
#CABBED
#CABB1E
#CADD1E
#C1CADA
#C0DDED
#C0FFEE
#C01FED
#DABBED
#DECADE
#DEC1DE
#DEC0DE
#DEEDED
#DEFACE
#DEF1ED
#DE1CED
#D0FFED
#D00DAD
#EDD1ED
#EFFACE
#FACADE
#F1BBED
#F0BBED
#0FF1CE
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What if you take into account hex codes with 3 characters?

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#AAA
#ABC
#ABE
#ACE
#ADA
#ADD
#AD0
#A1D
#A55
#BAD
#BBC
#BED
#BEE
#B1B
#B1D
#B0A
#B0B
#B00
#B5C
#CAB
#CAD
#CB1
#C1D
#C0B
#C0D
#C00
#C05
#DAB
#DAD
#DEB
#DFC
#D1D
#D1E
#D0C
#D0E
#D5C
#EBB
#E5C
#E5E
#FAD
#FED
#FEE
#F1B
#F0B
#F0E
#1B1
#1CE
#1DA
#111
#0AF
#0DD
#0DE
#0ED
#0FF
#5AD
#5EA
#5EC
#5EE
#51C
#50B
#50D
#55E

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