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Ugh. This is well meaning, but because based on a color model with a very tenuous relation to human color perception, with further decisions built on loose heuristics without rigorous support (and apparently ported from paint mixing advice), the choices made are pretty arbitrary, yielding poor results. This part in particular ... > Pick any color by selecting its hue (0-360) on the color wheel at full saturation (100…
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Someone making a color scheme for a chart needs to be very rigorous indeed, because color is actually how the data is represented, in some cases. The tutorial seems to be aimed at front-end developers that want to put together a color scheme for a website. In this case, color is more like decoration, so it doesn't need to be as rigorous, IMHO.
Color vision deficiencies (specifically dichromacy and monochromacy) need to be taken into account; the more important it is to convey (hazards) the more necessary it needs consideration.
what is it with these "experts" that think the way they see things is correct?
ever met someone with less than perfect vision... ever heard of someone with less than perfect vision?!?! this is why you have high contrast modes on your operating system, and colour blind mode in some games (not enough of this)
ffs
Just go to dribbble.com and see what you can see there, many interesting colour themes
If you want to do something meaningful with colors, don't use RGB, and don't use HSL (which is based on RGB). These spaces are problematic. For instance, pure blue and pure green in RGB space have very different lightness. Here's a picture of the region of colors covered by RGB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV#/media/File:Srgb-i... If RGB space corresponded to what our eyes saw, that would be a perfect hexa…
https://github.com/germ/munsellScript/blob/master/README.md
It's useful because it gives a manipulatable version of the colour (lighten the value, shift the hue, etc) and then wing it back to hex. Integrates with keybinds and clipboard integration. Highlight, keybind, manipulate, keybind. Repeat as needed. There's a demo in the readme.
This is pretty flawed. First off, never, ever use complementary colors as the foundation for your design. A red green color scheme (for example) will produce a result that "vibrates." Open your image editor of choice and look at green text (#00FF00) on a red background (#FF0000). Illegible. Painful to the eye. Don't do it. Read more here: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/why-you-should-avoid... Secondly, rotat…
That's really handy (especially for someone who's as aesthetically challenged as me) - but it would be nice what mix() actually does/means. I mean it seems to be a handy sass built-in(?) but it would be nice for us who are not webdevs to know how to manually "mix" HSL colors to get the same results.
http://sass-lang.com/documentation/Sass/Script/Functions.htm...
This is pretty flawed. First off, never, ever use complementary colors as the foundation for your design. A red green color scheme (for example) will produce a result that "vibrates." Open your image editor of choice and look at green text (#00FF00) on a red background (#FF0000). Illegible. Painful to the eye. Don't do it. Read more here: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/why-you-should-avoid... Secondly, rotat…
This is pretty flawed. First off, never, ever use complementary colors as the foundation for your design. A red green color scheme (for example) will produce a result that "vibrates." Open your image editor of choice and look at green text (#00FF00) on a red background (#FF0000). Illegible. Painful to the eye. Don't do it. Read more here: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/why-you-should-avoid... Secondly, rotat…
red green is bad because of colour blindness
This is pretty flawed. First off, never, ever use complementary colors as the foundation for your design. A red green color scheme (for example) will produce a result that "vibrates." Open your image editor of choice and look at green text (#00FF00) on a red background (#FF0000). Illegible. Painful to the eye. Don't do it. Read more here: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/why-you-should-avoid... Secondly, rotat…
If you choose a dark red (say, #C2454F in sRGB) and a light green (say, #51E6AF) you’ll be fine (albeit a bit garish in this particular example). Or choose a light red and a dark green if you prefer. Where you wind up in trouble is with two colors of the same lightness, say #DC555E and #047E54.
This is pretty flawed. First off, never, ever use complementary colors as the foundation for your design. A red green color scheme (for example) will produce a result that "vibrates." Open your image editor of choice and look at green text (#00FF00) on a red background (#FF0000). Illegible. Painful to the eye. Don't do it. Read more here: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/why-you-should-avoid... Secondly, rotat…