Nearest named colour

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/colorname-api/v1/nearest" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/colorname-api/v1/nearest", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/colorname-api/v1/nearest");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/colorname-api/v1/nearest",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "exact": false,
        "input": {
            "hex": "#6597ed",
            "rgb": [
                101,
                151,
                237
            ]
        },
        "nearest": {
            "hex": "#6495ed",
            "rgb": [
                100,
                149,
                237
            ],
            "name": "cornflowerblue"
        },
        "distance": 1.476
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-03T01:09:43.621Z",
        "request_id": "c6912607-23ff-479e-b125-4131202358e9"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Nearest named colour",
    "success": true
}