LOL Colors: Curated Color Palettes • Hacker News Board

When picking colors I usually find some inspiration, then take a screen-shot and pick the colors off it using this tool: http://webtigerteam.com/colorpicker/

Re: LOL Colors: Curated Color Palettes

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Post by SuperPaintMan » Tue, Feb 23, 2016, 8:26 PM UTC

Simple colour harmonies can be picked from a hue circle using rules of various polygons. Why not just spin around with that until you find something that suits your application? Then you can tweak it as needed rather then using some predefined palettes.

Related: Built a tool for switching between hex and Munsell notation for OSX, https://github.com/germ/munsellScript

Re: LOL Colors: Curated Color Palettes

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Post by kevinwang » Tue, Feb 23, 2016, 9:42 PM UTC

logicrook wrote: post #13

This triggers me. Besides having no explanation whatsoever, none of these palettes are usable for similar roles. So if you are able to pick a palette that suits your needs, it means you are able to understand what you need from your palette. If it's the case, it is highly likely that you can generate a better palette yourself. Do a quick test: take a screenshot of the site, then completely desaturate the image. The v…

So are you saying that the secondary, accented, etc. values are generated in your program as a function of the main color?

Re: LOL Colors: Curated Color Palettes

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Post by Hoasi » Tue, Feb 23, 2016, 10:13 PM UTC

spoiler wrote: post #19

This seems like a fun project and it is inspiring that the author challenged himself to make it, it's very commendable and something I was planning on doing myself when I get some free time. What follows is a tangentially related rant, so feel free to skip it if you don't care about WordPress. I watched the video[vid] and I was shocked when he got to he WordPress-vs-Rails debate. I'll ignore the fact that both of the…

Interesting — What would you suggest using for comics though?

Re: LOL Colors: Curated Color Palettes

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Post by themodelplumber » Tue, Feb 23, 2016, 10:20 PM UTC

spoiler wrote: post #19

This seems like a fun project and it is inspiring that the author challenged himself to make it, it's very commendable and something I was planning on doing myself when I get some free time. What follows is a tangentially related rant, so feel free to skip it if you don't care about WordPress. I watched the video[vid] and I was shocked when he got to he WordPress-vs-Rails debate. I'll ignore the fact that both of the…

The plug-ins. These have cost businesses a lot of money. I used to provide training for really highly customized WordPress sites and can still recall former DBAs wondering out loud why the vendor couldn't provide a simpler solution. "Because you aren't important enough to them" was really the only answer that would have made sense.

Re: LOL Colors: Curated Color Palettes

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Post by themodelplumber » Tue, Feb 23, 2016, 10:20 PM UTC

spoiler wrote: post #19

This seems like a fun project and it is inspiring that the author challenged himself to make it, it's very commendable and something I was planning on doing myself when I get some free time. What follows is a tangentially related rant, so feel free to skip it if you don't care about WordPress. I watched the video[vid] and I was shocked when he got to he WordPress-vs-Rails debate. I'll ignore the fact that both of the…

The plug-ins. These have cost businesses a lot of money. I used to provide training for really highly customized WordPress sites and can still recall former DBAs wondering out loud why the vendor couldn't provide a simpler solution. "Because you aren't important enough to them" was really the only answer that would have made sense.

Re: LOL Colors: Curated Color Palettes

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Post by logicrook » Tue, Feb 23, 2016, 10:26 PM UTC

kevinwang wrote: post #35

logicrook wrote: post #13

This triggers me. Besides having no explanation whatsoever, none of these palettes are usable for similar roles. So if you are able to pick a palette that suits your needs, it means you are able to understand what you need from your palette. If it's the case, it is highly likely that you can generate a better palette yourself. Do a quick test: take a screenshot of the site, then completely desaturate the image. The v…

So are you saying that the secondary, accented, etc. values are generated in your program as a function of the main color?

I don't generate the palettes algorithmically[0], but each color is defined by its role. So if you want change the palette, for another one where the values are in roughly the same relation, it is going to work.

[0]If you want to do it, there are ways to make it work, but you'll likely spend some time tweaking the algorithm and use another color space than HSV. The issue is that HSV does not map linearly to perception, so naive functions do not map very well across the full circle of hues. So basically it's quicker to do it by hand, unless you need to generate tons of palettes (like for a video-game).

Re: LOL Colors: Curated Color Palettes

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Post by tayk » Tue, Feb 23, 2016, 10:46 PM UTC

Awesome! For the colorblind engineer, this is so helpful.