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Show HN: A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis

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Re: Show HN: A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis

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Post by micfok »

Sweyla wrote: post #12

Here is my immediate suggestion: Show only one palette at a time. By putting incompatible patterns so close, you get a matrix of colors that with high probability do not harmonize well. I am assuming you have a slightly different algorithm for these three, since the middle one doesn't seem to match the root color's brightness, and they seem to match saturation differently too. Make a choice between these before you g…

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Re: Show HN: A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis

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Post by daltonlp »

psuter wrote: post #4

Picking colors is an interesting problem at the boundary of what can be done algorithmically with satisfactory results. For my latest side project, I needed sets of up to 5 colors that go well together but are sufficiently distant not too be confused. Since this is the task that palette generators typically set out to achieve, I tried a couple of them [1,2], as well as some "hand crafted" palettes found on design blo…

Here's a shameless plug for http://www.colr.org . No palette generation algorithms, but lots of tagging and classification.

Re: Show HN: A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis

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Post by Blahah »

pyrocat wrote: post #18
Sweyla wrote: post #12

Here is my immediate suggestion: Show only one palette at a time. By putting incompatible patterns so close, you get a matrix of colors that with high probability do not harmonize well. I am assuming you have a slightly different algorithm for these three, since the middle one doesn't seem to match the root color's brightness, and they seem to match saturation differently too. Make a choice between these before you g…

That's pretty rad. Is the source available anywhere? I'd like to see something like this for Sublime.

You can download the TextMate theme file for the colour scheme you generate. You can use the tm file directly in Sublime.

Re: Show HN: A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis

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Post by boronine »

Does the algorithm use HSL as its color space? I've seen many online palette tools that use HSL color wheels for picking colors. It never made sense to me why they wouldn't use a perceptually uniform color space like CIELUV. I actually made a color space derived from CIELUV specifically for the task of picking colors [1]. I never wrote a 'proper' palette generator using it, but I did make a demo that works pretty well [2]. Considering that you're actually studying this, I would be curious to know what you think.

[1] http://www.boronine.com/husl/

[2] http://www.boronine.com/husl/syntax/

Re: Show HN: A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

psuter wrote: post #4

Picking colors is an interesting problem at the boundary of what can be done algorithmically with satisfactory results. For my latest side project, I needed sets of up to 5 colors that go well together but are sufficiently distant not too be confused. Since this is the task that palette generators typically set out to achieve, I tried a couple of them [1,2], as well as some "hand crafted" palettes found on design blo…

I quite like colourlovers for palette ideas and construction - they have a tool that extracts palettes from images http://www.colourlovers.com/photocopa that might have helped you.

Not connected to the site except as a user.

Re: Show HN: A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis

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Post by boronine »

Sweyla wrote: post #12

Here is my immediate suggestion: Show only one palette at a time. By putting incompatible patterns so close, you get a matrix of colors that with high probability do not harmonize well. I am assuming you have a slightly different algorithm for these three, since the middle one doesn't seem to match the root color's brightness, and they seem to match saturation differently too. Make a choice between these before you g…

Hey, I saw your page a while ago! Actually, I ripped it off to demo a project of mine [1]

[1] http://www.boronine.com/husl/syntax/

Re: Show HN: A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis

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Post by tlarkworthy »

boronine wrote: post #24

Does the algorithm use HSL as its color space? I've seen many online palette tools that use HSL color wheels for picking colors. It never made sense to me why they wouldn't use a perceptually uniform color space like CIELUV. I actually made a color space derived from CIELUV specifically for the task of picking colors [1]. I never wrote a 'proper' palette generator using it, but I did make a demo that works pretty wel…

I like it but isn't blue under represented?

Re: Show HN: A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis

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Post by pseudometa »

pseudometa wrote: post #27

I'm getting a lot of really ugly palettes... by "a lot" I mean all of them.

This may be a presentation problem as generally when using a palette, colors are not used all equally and not necessarily all right next to eachother. Perhaps a thesis for another grad student.
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