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knuptfad

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    Comment #26507808

    Thanks for the suggestion. Could be nice to have, but then there must be a visual feedback for the user. Issues/PRs are welcomed in the GH repo.

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    Comment #26505239

    Thanks! My answers to your points: 1. True. Maybe I could make it also disabled to restrict interacting with it altogether. 2. I didn't design the tool as a more serious colorpicke…

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    Comment #26505110

    I was commenting based on the HSL values of the mentioned colors. At the time of creating this tool I really didn't care too much about using a more perception-aware color space. D…

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    Comment #26504842

    Thanks. Colors are sorted just based on their hue, saturation and lightness.

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    Comment #26504650

    "chartreuse" name is coming from the chartreuse drink, which is a highly alcoholic and green colored booze :)

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    Comment #26504379

    Interesting point. Maybe the user could toggle the animations on and off. But back then, I hadn't designed this tool with the idea of creating a standard-ish colorpicker in mind.

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    Comment #26504243

    Note that their hue and lightness values are almost same. The only difference is saturation and that seems to be why they are on the same row, differentiated only by the saturation…

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    Comment #26504199

    Good point, thanks for pointing it out. I think I was trying to deal with it, but for some reason I just let it be this way. Also contributions are welcome! :)

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    Comment #26504166

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Comment #26503773

    Thanks, I'm glad! :) I think there's a misunderstanding there. Mediumturquoise and turquoise are both located above cyan, which means they are brighter as the vertical axis is the …

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    Comment #26503730

    Thanks, I'm happy to hear you enjoyed it. I'm not aware of an equivalent tool for Pantone colors. But it can be created using this very tool with a table of pantone colors instead …

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    Comment #26503573

    The idea was to create a tool to sort the named CSS colors in a way that it shows related colors together. So, next time I can't decide between a few CSS colors, I can just check t…

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    Comment #17584832

    I'm sharing my read-list, as I go through it. Instead of sharing those manually on Twitter, I thought it would be cool to have a Tumblr mirror, and even its own website and update …

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