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+## Package `xkcdcolors` for LaTeX
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+In the year 2010, Randall Munroe on [posted a really fun and nice article](https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/) on the iconic web of [xkcd](https://xkcd.com/).
+He did a very curious experiment: showing colors to a lot of people and asking to name each one.
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+Afterward, he processed the data and sorted the names for each color by popularity --- that means, how many people gave the same name to the same color (no guidance here! Read the post linked above for details).
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+He obtained a nice list of around 950 color names. It's not at all surprising that a lot of people forged `CloudyBlue`, but some color is really surprising, like for example `BabyPoopGreen` or `DullPink`...
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