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Re: Show HN: Finding the colours of the web

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Post by riblah »

apineda wrote: post #20
riblah wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm keeping white/black and greytones out for now. White/light greys are especially hard... how would you differentiate between the content and the background? It's definitely on the list of things to address.

Any chance of open sourcing? I'm interested in the algorithm. Is it quantizing to a more limited bit depth and taking say, top 5ish via mode?

I do plan on open sourcing. A little self conscious about the code as I'm more of a designer, but watch this space.

At the moment it's quantizing down to 40 colours with a tree depth of 4, I then pull the top 12.

Re: Show HN: Finding the colours of the web

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Post by scarecrowbob »

riblah wrote: post #18
aw3c2 wrote: post #17

Hm, it is dismissing white (and black?) while I find those colours often very important to a site's look. Think Facebook, it is white and blue.

I'm keeping white/black and greytones out for now. White/light greys are especially hard... how would you differentiate between the content and the background? It's definitely on the list of things to address.

A border?

Re: Show HN: Finding the colours of the web

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Post by cvantez »

Kiro wrote: post #6
maresca wrote: post #2

http://webcolourdata.com/profile/85 Must go deeper haha.

What's going on?

Maresca found the color data for the webcolourdata.com page, then found the color data for that color data page, etc, etc.

Take a look at the thumbnail and you'll notice it's an image inside an image inside an image...

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