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Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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Post by neotek »

rovr138 wrote: post #60
floatingatoll wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(It’s hiding in the Utilities folder if you can’t see it in Applications.)

Create a shortcut for it. I have it set to CMD + Shift + C. Great to have it easily accessible

Hey, thanks to this comment, I just discovered that if you hit Cmd+Shift+C in Chrome it'll let you inspect any element by clicking on it. Cheers!

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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Post by Bouncingsoul1 »

Hi, great work, quick suggestions redgreen is the "ugliest" combination of complimentary colors, which creates quite a disturbance in the viewers eyes (you could do some research on Van Gogh "The Night Cafe" where he used this for effect). So maybe don't use this as default/start color.

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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Post by pushpop »

Bouncingsoul1 wrote: post #85

Hi, great work, quick suggestions red green is the "ugliest" combination of complimentary colors, which creates quite a disturbance in the viewers eyes (you could do some research on Van Gogh "The Night Cafe" where he used this for effect). So maybe don't use this as default/start color.

To be honest I don’t think any of the complimentary colours suggested by this are complimentary.

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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Post by firmgently »

pushpop wrote: post #86
Bouncingsoul1 wrote: post #85

Hi, great work, quick suggestions red green is the "ugliest" combination of complimentary colors, which creates quite a disturbance in the viewers eyes (you could do some research on Van Gogh "The Night Cafe" where he used this for effect). So maybe don't use this as default/start color.

To be honest I don’t think any of the complimentary colours suggested by this are complimentary.

It's complementary, which is a different word and has a very specific meaning when it comes to colour theory (a colour's complement is the colour directly opposite it on a colour wheel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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Post by rhgg »

firmgently wrote: post #87
pushpop wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be honest I don’t think any of the complimentary colours suggested by this are complimentary.

It's complementary , which is a different word and has a very specific meaning when it comes to colour theory (a colour's complement is the colour directly opposite it on a colour wheel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors

They don't appear to be complementary either. The complement to #ee4035 is in the cyan range (~5cf7fa). You can get this by hand.

Convert #ee4035 to rgb(234, 64, 53). Subtract those values from max RGB domain (255) and take square root of difference of squares. i.e sqrt(255^2 - 238^2) etc.

You end up with rgb(92, 247, 250), or the cyan color mentioned above. You can also check this in several other complementary calculators.

I could be missing something.

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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Post by coldtea »

soheil wrote: post #76
mikekij wrote: post #2

This looks awesome! Congrats on launching it. First: Don't get bogged down by random HN commenters' feature requests. Second: I have a feature request. I'd love a native version for Mac OS with a magnifying glass thing that allows me to select a color somewhere else on my screen, and then suggest complimentary colors. I'd gladly pay for that!

You just requested a random feature which contradicts the point you made in the previous sentence. Also why are you bringing money into this? And are you saying you wouldn't pay for this awesome tool as is?

>You just requested a random feature which contradicts the point you made in the previous sentence.

1) Requesting a feature immediately after was intended as a joke.

2) It still doesn't contradict it. The first point merely advices the programmer to "not get overwhelmed by feature requests". Such an advice is not contradictory to making one from a formal logic perspective.

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