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

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

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Post by nkristoffersen »

djsumdog wrote: post #22
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.

I love coolors. Just hit space bar to cycle. Once I see a color I like, I just lock that color and continue hitting space bar and locking colors till I have a full pallet :-)

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

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Post by kqr »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #27
ehnto wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

Two sides to this coin as well: I'm baffled that what was previously called linear algebra is now called "AI", but it has also emphasised to me how much I need to get better at linear algebra...

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

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Post by kqr »

djsumdog wrote: post #22
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.

This was very neat. What I'm about to say should not detract from that – this is probably one of the better palette tools I have used, if not the best.

But why on Earth would you want a user account and cloud storage for 15 bytes of colour values?

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

kqr wrote: post #34
TeMPOraL wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Two sides to this coin as well: I'm baffled that what was previously called linear algebra is now called "AI", but it has also emphasised to me how much I need to get better at linear algebra...

I came to the same conclusion, and actually picked up a stats book recently. The hype might be unbearable at times, but the underlying knowledge is also very valuable.

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

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Post by Kiro »

entropie wrote: post #33
lwhi wrote: post #32

I'd don't get it .. why are these palettes worth using above others? I'm not trying to be controversial .. I'm confused.

And that audio that is played when you select one... i dont get it.

You are questioning the UX while lwhi is questioning the utility of these palettes.

To answer your question anyway: it's fun.

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

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Post by Jack000 »

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?

(I made colormind.io) Color theory isn't an exact science, you could make random palettes from various color rules but they don't look good (imo).

as an experiment, try this:

go on https://color.adobe.com and click on one of the color rules (it will give you a random palette based on the rule)

now compare with a palette from https://coolors.co/ or https://color.adobe.com/explore/ (user-uploaded)

if color theory + regression fully solved this problem, none of these color sites would need to exist.

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