Show HN: Paletter – Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color

Post by maxsavin » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

pcmaffey wrote: post #30

Why are online color palettes always 5 colors? It seems... arbitrary.

Post by i_haz_rabies » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

slig wrote: post #29

noughtme wrote: post #5

I commend the author on their entrepreneurialism. Not sure why this needs to be a native app. You can code up a web app to generate color palettes in about 20 minutes, which is a fun excercise. Or you can just google color palette generator: https://tailwind.ink https://huey.design https://www.tailwindshades.com https://tailwind.simeongriggs.dev https://javisperez.github.io/tailwindcolorshades/ https://tailwind-color…

> You can code up a web app to generate color palettes in about 20 minutes, which is a fun excercise. I'd be really interested in seeing someone do that in 20 minutes. If you ever decide to do that, please post here.

Post by swyx » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

jimhefferon wrote: post #14

Sadly, I lack the ability to generate good palettes. I just have a hole in my brain where that ability should go. So a palette generator is no help, for me. Is there a good, reasonably active, site with a list of palettes that talented people were good enough to make Freely available? I used to go to kuler.adobe.com (spelling?) but I think it changed and I've since had trouble finding one that is as good.

Post by swyx » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 6:24 PM UTC

noughtme wrote: post #5

I commend the author on their entrepreneurialism. Not sure why this needs to be a native app. You can code up a web app to generate color palettes in about 20 minutes, which is a fun excercise. Or you can just google color palette generator: https://tailwind.ink https://huey.design https://www.tailwindshades.com https://tailwind.simeongriggs.dev https://javisperez.github.io/tailwindcolorshades/ https://tailwind-color…

Post by slig » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 6:31 PM UTC

noughtme wrote: post #36

slig wrote: post #29

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> You can code up a web app to generate color palettes in about 20 minutes, which is a fun excercise. I'd be really interested in seeing someone do that in 20 minutes. If you ever decide to do that, please post here.

Alright, maybe a bit more than 20 mins. It's ugly, it's rudimentary, but it works. Feel free to fork it. The color/palette generation functions can use some work and I am not a designer. Obviously it was a bit of a facetious comment, and props to the author for building a full iOS app. This is definitely not that. https://hn-color-palette-generator.netlify.app https://github.com/noughtme/color-palette/tree/main/src *…