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Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Post by vtange »

I can see a lot of utility in this. Great job!

Is this limited to generating palettes of 5 colors? Sometimes all 5 won't be needed, wouldn't that make the output a little less useful since the algorithm considers how each of the five interacts with the others.

If I only needed two colors, I wouldn't need those two colors to work against three other colors.

Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Post by agumonkey »

huula wrote: post #19

Looks cool! I recently posted HuulaTypesetter ( https://huu.la/ai/typesetter ) which infers font sizes for web pages based on DOM context and CSSRooster which infers CSS class names based on the context. I'm really happy to see that there are more intelligence happening in the design world! The dream of replacing Web UI design with AI will one day come true! All (deep) learning models suffers the issue of 'garbage in…

I'm not 100% fond of the layout suggestions, but I have to admit there's a peaceful balance in them.

Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Post by huula »

agumonkey wrote: post #22
huula wrote: post #19

Looks cool! I recently posted HuulaTypesetter ( https://huu.la/ai/typesetter ) which infers font sizes for web pages based on DOM context and CSSRooster which infers CSS class names based on the context. I'm really happy to see that there are more intelligence happening in the design world! The dream of replacing Web UI design with AI will one day come true! All (deep) learning models suffers the issue of 'garbage in…

I'm not 100% fond of the layout suggestions, but I have to admit there's a peaceful balance in them.

Yeah, statistical models just give you the most probable result (in terms of the data we train it on), so if you are a creative person, you probably won't find it useful.

Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Post by maxmcorp »

Using deepmind for generating color palettes is somewhat of an overkill. It is really not that hard a problem.

It is very easy to programatically generate several color palettes from a main color.

It is also wasy to select one or more main colors from a picture.

Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Post by whistlerbrk »

I do love these color scheme generators, and perhaps this is a suggestion for improvement, the color vs. dominance of the color seems very important as well. That is, proportionally showing the palette based on how dominant that color should be in an overall end design

Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Post by huula »

maxmcorp wrote: post #24

Using deepmind for generating color palettes is somewhat of an overkill. It is really not that hard a problem. It is very easy to programatically generate several color palettes from a main color. It is also wasy to select one or more main colors from a picture.

Good point, just blindly select several "harmonious" colors are not hard at all. But as some folks pointed out, if we want to also consider the context (where the colors will be used, is it a button? or background? or text?), deep learning is definitely a good fit.

Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Post by kccqzy »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #14

sorry for the stupid question, but how do you "apply" color palettes? i mean, sure they look great as colorful columns, but how do you put them into UI? let say Bootstrap. i tried using 1st color for button, 2nd color for "success" label, etc. it ended up ugly.

If your web page consists of distinct "rows" or sections, try setting these colors to be the background colors of those rows.

Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Post by chias »

This looks great!

Did you have any thoughts with regards to releasing it as open source so that we could run our own instances with the various training sets? I note that you appear not to be monetizing it at all, so I figured I'd pop the question :)

Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Post by [deleted] »

huula wrote: post #19

Looks cool! I recently posted HuulaTypesetter ( https://huu.la/ai/typesetter ) which infers font sizes for web pages based on DOM context and CSSRooster which infers CSS class names based on the context. I'm really happy to see that there are more intelligence happening in the design world! The dream of replacing Web UI design with AI will one day come true! All (deep) learning models suffers the issue of 'garbage in…

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