How to get the closest color to the input rgb value?

[shrewd junco]

How would I make a method to get the closest color (name) to an rgb value that is given to the method?

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[arctic flint]

define a bunch of color names with their respective rgb values, compare r, g and b for each name to your input, return the one with the least difference

[twin birch]

found this code on stack overflow that finds the closest color from name, using a mean square error:

https://gist.github.com/nightlark/6482130

there also exists this javascript code here that finds the closes named color:

https://www.color-blindness.com/color-name-hue-tool/js/ntc.js

note: this would need to be translated to java

[arctic flint]

that is not even valid java

[twin birch]

I can't try it out rn because my IDE doesn't wanna open atm, but they said that it may not compile, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

yeah wait wtf is happening in that class https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/774466411250319410.webp?size=48&name=poob&quality=lossless

lemme quickly make it smth more reasonable

[twin birch]

there, that's significantly better (actually works and uses decent code style), and it also has more colours

[arctic flint]

based vencord user

also: what do we know about the == operator?

[twin birch]

mfw I'm used to kotlin and I forgor java's == operator is cringe

updated to not use ==

wait I did a formatting stupid in there

oh yeah also, here's a version with final (because good practice) and a private empty constructor (because good practice):