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Re: Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors

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pabue wrote: post #35
tbabb wrote: post #32

EDIT: Author has pointed out that the interpolation mode can be changed. Very slick! It looks like this is interpolating in HCL or HSV space— that tends to produce unexpected results, including intermediate colors with unrelated hues (pink between orange and blue?), or sharp discontinuities if one of the endpoints changes slightly (try mixing orange and blue, and then shifting the blue towards teal until suddenly the…

First of all thanks for the comments and info. I'm actually not doing the color interpolation myself. I'm using chroma.js[1] for the most part. You can actually change the interpolation mode on the bottom below the color boxes. The default is LCH because I think it looks the best most of the time, but you can use LAB if you prefer that. [1] https://gka.github.io/chroma.js/

Aha! That was a bonehead miss on my part. Very nice, and very slick interface. :)

Re: Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors

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Post by pabue »

djfdat wrote: post #33

Hey, this is a really great tool, thanks for making and sharing with us! One thing that I think would help is for the tool to not lose state when changing between tabs. You have the manual randomize color button, so it doesn't make sense to randomize on tab switch. Then, in addition, sending colors from one tab to another. For example, I want to modify a color, and then send it to Mix Swatch 1. Also, like everyone el…

The color change when switching between tabs is definitely something I'm going to remove/fix soon. It didn't really bother me, but I see it now.

I also really like the color names. But I can't take credit for that, because someone else is doing all the hard work here: https://github.com/meodai/color-names Showing them in more places might be cool, but the performance might become an issue then.

Saving settings might also be a cool feature to add. I'm gonna look into that.

Thank you!

Re: Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors

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Post by pabue »

kang wrote: post #42

Minor bug: backspacing. Eg, edit some value, type "1", now backspace changes text to "NaN" instead of expected "". To make it a bit worse, users can't even do "01", now backspace changes to "" instead of expected "0". Both should be fixed imo.

Good catch, thanks. Gonna fix that.

Re: Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors

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Post by pabue »

echelon wrote: post #37
pabue wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really cool to hear that! And the names are definitely awesome. All the credit for that goes to: https://github.com/meodai/color-names

Thank you for sharing! This is such a neat library. Lots of kudos on the work you put in too! Your app is fun and super slick. Top notch design and frontend skills.

Thank you very much!

Re: Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors

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Post by pabue »

diogenesjunior wrote: post #41

just by looking at the homepage, i see nothing helpful. what does the website do? no idea. i'd suggest being more descriptive on the home page

I know what you mean but at the same time I think "toolbox for colors" describes it quite well with very few words. I also think it's best to just try the tools. But I do think that the tools themselves need descriptions and maybe even a small tutorial, so thanks for bringing that up.
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