This is hosted on a hk domain. Is this definitively not a coded message of some sort ?
Haha no. It just reflects that I am from HK. Anyway, please support HK:)
Show HN: A little web app for playing around with colors
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#22Re: Show HN: A little web app for playing around with colors
#23Interesting idea @longsangstan--I played around with it for a while and liked how the colors would change on reload or palette click. I often muck around with colors using the Chrome debug tools, but it would be interesting to have something like this pop up as a dev plug-in with assignable sections/classes/ids so I could tweak things on the fly and o/p CSS--if that doesn't exist already.
Actually at the beginning I was thinking whether to make a webapp or a chrome extension...
A chrome extension is more suitable as a dev tool while a webapp is more easily sharable...
Thanks for your suggestion!
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#24Very playful and focused. The only issue I have is with the preview image. The image shows islands of colors isolated by big white space. Most color combinations look good in this context. When two colored shapes touch each others, then things get tricky. Eyes can pick out subtle lightning clues, like darker colors moving toward purplish hues. Maybe add another image that shows overlapping colored shapes?
It's really a good point. The graphic now can't really reflects how well do the colors go together.
Apart from graphics, I am thinking maybe adding some sample UI/charts too...
Thanks for your feedback!
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#25What does it mean when a public github project has no LICENSE file ? Am I only legally allowed to view* the source code, but can't download and run it locally? Or can I run it locally, but not publish it publicly? * The source for the app doesn't have a License file as of dae0f0f: https://github.com/longsangstan/color-app
Didn't think about that haha. Will add a MIT license later. Thanks!
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#26Feels like I am 5 years old again!
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#27Fun, but I couldn't figure out how to select a color (left-most bottom-menu icon) and have it transfer over to the play area (middle icon).
It is indeed a problem. I am still thinking how to make these two pages work together.. maybe merge the first page into the color picker in second page.
Thanks for your feedback!
Re: Show HN: A little web app for playing around with colors
#28Interesting idea @longsangstan--I played around with it for a while and liked how the colors would change on reload or palette click. I often muck around with colors using the Chrome debug tools, but it would be interesting to have something like this pop up as a dev plug-in with assignable sections/classes/ids so I could tweak things on the fly and o/p CSS--if that doesn't exist already.
Actually at the beginning I was thinking whether to make a webapp or a chrome extension... A chrome extension is more suitable as a dev tool while a webapp is more easily sharable... Thanks for your suggestion!
Agreed--though much of the core code is shareable between both targets.
When I first discovered the prototyping capabilities for colors/themes/samples in the Chrome dev tools, my mind was blown away b/c of how fast I could iterate. A plug-in might take that to the next level. It's hard to say without me surveying more of what's out there and in use--I get the sense that at a certain level, teams rely more on tools like Sketch, inVision studio, Framer etc. for this.