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Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
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#32I thought this would be a ranking using crawled data on the web… kind of disappointed.
note to self
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#33Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#34Based on the title, I imagined crawling all websites and counting how many pixels used each colour.
Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#35Voting on all 16 million is a cool concept, but given that this is probably going to be popular for only a day or so, probably not achievable. From your own ranks, only 0.27% of colours have been voted on at all, and most likely the majority of those voted on have a single vote.
Personally I think that's okay. I also think it might make sense for any summary to lump colors together using clustering and averaging the group using a colorspace like Oklab.
There's lots of room for different types of analyses here!
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#38People would probably vote more if they had to vote at least 5 times to see the ranks, i.e. say "3 more votes to see ranks" in top center, and then pop up the ranks automatically. I don't think anyone would be mad.
Here I am clicking color after color like a dunce, wondering when I get to see the ranking. After 20-30 or so clicks I finally notice the ultra-tiny-low-contrast "Ranks" text. In my defense I'm outside with a ton of glare...
So people with the worst vision have the biggest say in what is the best color.
Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#39Based on the title, I imagined crawling all websites and counting how many pixels used each colour.
Yeah me too..
That would have made a lot more sense than what they're doing. I'd really like to see the outcome of that. Not this random comparison.
Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. White 2. Black 3. Colours (mostly blue) Still disappointed?
1. White 2. Light grey 3. Some other light grey ... 235. dark grey 236. slightly bluish dark grey 237. slightly yellowish dark grey ...
Of course, but you could ignore all the obvious ones.
Keeping track of this would also show interesting trends over time. Do web designers favour 'hard' colours or pastels? Do they favour blue or less melatonin-generating colours. Stuff like that.