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Re: Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

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Post by djsumdog » Sun, Feb 11, 2018, 7:38 AM UTC

jackvalentine wrote: post #3

I recently built an internal tool at work, and in an attempt to make things very readable used the EGA colour palette. It isn't pretty, but everything is obvious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Graphics_Adapter#Colo...

Wow, that's actually a really great idea. Takes you back to the days of simple 16 colors. It could even have that vintage Google UI look to it.

Re: Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

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Post by djsumdog » Sun, Feb 11, 2018, 7:39 AM UTC

dbranes wrote: post #16

Genuinely curious, as a non-designer, I don't understand what this offers over existing palettes websites [1]. Anyone care to enlighten? [1] e.g. http://www.colourlovers.com/ , http://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/

I still use https://coolors.co.

The thing is no one ever uses one of these pallets. You start off with one maybe as a base and then adjust everything to get stuff just right. The Coolors UI seems to be good at that.

Re: Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

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Post by GuiA » Sun, Feb 11, 2018, 8:08 AM UTC

amelius wrote: post #4

Is the idea behind this that a UI uses different colors based on geolocation?

It looks like they use the flag colors to seed the palette.

Re: Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

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Post by eropple » Sun, Feb 11, 2018, 8:16 AM UTC

Falkon1313 wrote: post #20

eropple wrote: post #6

I really dig a couple of those palettes, but that website might be the most infuriating thing I have seen in a while . Unnecessary slide transitions. Product Hunt begging. Interrupting the back button (edit: or maybe interrupting a slide to a palette? I don't know, both are bad) with a beg for me to sign up for their newsletter. An interstitial added after they already interrupted me with an email beg--this one, a tw…

Using NoScript or turning off javascript fixes all the problems on that site. Although then it's just a blank white page without even so much as noscript text.

NoScript creates problems, too.

I have no problems with the use of JavaScript. I have a problem with tasteless dickery.

Re: Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

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Post by ehnto » Sun, Feb 11, 2018, 8:32 AM UTC

bhj wrote: post #18

Related: http://colormind.io ("The AI powered color palette generator" - the image upload option is pretty nifty) http://khroma.co/train/ ("The AI color tool for designers")

AI? Wouldn't they just automate regular colour theory?

Re: Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

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Post by joshfarrant » Sun, Feb 11, 2018, 8:52 AM UTC

Bjorkbat wrote: post #12

I'm genuinely curious, what's the methodology behind categorizing palettes by country? Just for fun? Or is there something more interesting here. I'm from the states, but I think I might like that Dutch palette more.

AFAIK The palettes are categorised by the nationality of the designer.

Re: Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

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Post by TeMPOraL » Sun, Feb 11, 2018, 9:03 AM UTC

ehnto wrote: post #25

bhj wrote: post #18

Related: http://colormind.io ("The AI powered color palette generator" - the image upload option is pretty nifty) http://khroma.co/train/ ("The AI color tool for designers")

AI? Wouldn't they just automate regular colour theory?

Remember that most of the time, "AI" is a codeword for linear regression.

Re: Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

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Post by solarkraft » Sun, Feb 11, 2018, 9:29 AM UTC

Bjorkbat wrote: post #12

I'm genuinely curious, what's the methodology behind categorizing palettes by country? Just for fun? Or is there something more interesting here. I'm from the states, but I think I might like that Dutch palette more.

People from different cultural circles may have a different perception of some colors. This is probably the easiest to group by country.

Re: Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

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Post by ahmetsulek » Sun, Feb 11, 2018, 10:03 AM UTC

Bjorkbat wrote: post #12

I'm genuinely curious, what's the methodology behind categorizing palettes by country? Just for fun? Or is there something more interesting here. I'm from the states, but I think I might like that Dutch palette more.

Hello there, maker of Flat UI Colors here. I made collaboration with 13 designers from 13 different countries and palette names are given based on designer's country. The colors are not related with the country name or flag they are designer's own picks.

Re: Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

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Post by ahmetsulek » Sun, Feb 11, 2018, 10:17 AM UTC

eropple wrote: post #6

I really dig a couple of those palettes, but that website might be the most infuriating thing I have seen in a while . Unnecessary slide transitions. Product Hunt begging. Interrupting the back button (edit: or maybe interrupting a slide to a palette? I don't know, both are bad) with a beg for me to sign up for their newsletter. An interstitial added after they already interrupted me with an email beg--this one, a tw…

Hello there, maker of the website here. I'm sorry it made felt you that way, but so far it helped me to engage much more. PH Bar actually disappears after your first visit and subscription hook activates only once. Anyway, I've turned off PH bar and newsletter subscription hook :) Would be nice to hear how can I improve the experience here.