Tool to decrypt / encode with Hexahue, a code using combinations of 6 squares (3x2) among 9 colors, made by Josh Cramer.
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Hexahue is an alphabet made of colored blocks created from squares arranged in a 2x3 rectangle. The idea was to create a writing system based on bright colors and limited to 9 HTML colors.
Hexahue uses 9-color square patterns within a 2x3 rectangular grid.
Hexahue supports 38 characters: the 26 characters of the Latin alphabet (from A to Z), the 10 digits (from 0 to 9) as well as the comma ,, the period ., presented in the following table:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | ||||||||
Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | ||||||||
Y | Z | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | . | , | ||||||||||
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Hexahue additionally uses 2 blocks to represent spaces, either ▮ or ▯ (one all black and one all white).
The correspondence is 1 to 1: a letter/number always corresponds to a symbol (for letters, upper and lower case are not differentiated).
In his original description, the author indicated that the other punctuations (.,()[]{}!?%$-+/*) could be achieved by combining other black and white square patterns.
Any message encrypted by Hexahue is in a rather colorful image format with a maximum of 9 distinct colors: red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta, white, gray and black.
Each color is theoretically present at 100% brightness (except for gray).
The symbols are made up of combinations of 6 colored squares grouped into a rectangle 3 high by 2 wide.
The letters are coded with the 6 primary and secondary colors: red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta and never have the same color twice.
The digits/figures are coded with 3 levels of gray: white, gray and black, with mandatory 2 squares of each shade.
The punctuation (the point . And the comma ,) is coded with only black and white (3 black squares and 3 white squares staggered)
The spaces are either all black or all white.
The prefix HEX refers to the fact that there are 6 colors, but can also refer to the hexadecimal code for denoting HTML colors.
The author calls hexasquare each of the 6 small squares making up a hexahue symbol.
Hexahue was invented by Josh Cramer. Source here
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Hexahue on dCode.fr [online website], retrieved on 2024-12-19,