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Some color poems based on the XKCD color corpus and nearest neighbors calculations.

Most similar colors using an increasing number of characters

red

red
ruby
blood
claret
scarlet
mahogany
orangered
vermillion
pink/purple

orange

poo
rust
brown
orange
pumpkin
cinnamon
chocolate
vermillion
yellowgreen

yellow

pea
snot
vomit
yellow
mustard
diarrhea
dandelion
chartreuse
yellowgreen

green

tea
pine
green
forest
emerald
shamrock
darkgreen
lightgreen
wintergreen

blue

sky
navy
royal
marine
blurple
sapphire
blueberry
cornflower
ultramarine

indigo

sky
iris
royal
indigo
blurple
midnight
blueberry
heliotrope
blue/purple

purple

sky
plum
grape
purple
fuchsia
eggplant
aubergine
heliotrope
purple/pink

Color name acrostics with similar colors

red

red
earth
diarrhea

orange

orange
russet
auburn
navy
goldenrod
earth

yellow

yellow
earth
lemon
lemon
olive
wheat

green

green
rosa
emerald
emerald
navy

blue

blue
lightblue
ultramarine
evergreen

indigo

indigo
navy
darkblue
indigo
grape
orchid

violet

violet
indigo
orchid
liliac
eggplant
twilight
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