Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

colorsupplyyy.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

101–110 of 110 posts

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

#101

Post by rhgg »

wdutch wrote: post #99
rhgg wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 calc…

that's the rgb compliment[1], this app uses the traditional colour wheel[2] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors#Colors_pr... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_wheel

TIL. I shouldn't have skipped art class. Thanks for the sources.

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

#102

Post by chiefalchemist »

I like the concept of how this works. Do you have a mailing list. I think I want to wait for a couple more color wheels.

In any case:

> "Ability to bookmark your favorite colors for later."

Is this read-only? Can I share such links with clients (i.e., people who aren't using the paid version)?

What that said, some sort of web font integration would be a nice touch. Begin able to show a less design-minded clients a "rough draft" of colors and fonts would be helpful.

If not, if anyone can suggest anything for doing a simple, rough draft-y "style guide", that would be helpful.

Thanks again. Nice work.

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

#103

Post by kilian »

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.

For anyone interested, Nerdwriter made a video about this very painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKNAZr0QJzs

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

#104

Post by k__ »

Looks cool, doesn't work.

At least on my mobile Chrome on Android.

I can only set a color once, then the black selectors just wiggle around in place whenever I choose a color.

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

#106

Post by philipov »

I like it. I noticed that when changing pattern type, it doesn't remember which color I had selected. It would be nice if it remembered that, so one could quickly cycle through all the patterns for a selection.

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

#108

Post by meko »

asnrk wrote: post #20
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!

If you'll accept the step of copying the values into the tool that figures out the complementary colors for you, macOS comes with Digital Color Meter, which will tell you the color of anything on your screen.

This is why I have no side projects, yet. Most problems have already been solved.

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

#109

Post by sh87 »

meko wrote: post #108
asnrk wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you'll accept the step of copying the values into the tool that figures out the complementary colors for you, macOS comes with Digital Color Meter, which will tell you the color of anything on your screen.

This is why I have no side projects, yet. Most problems have already been solved.

Commentbait, I smell it but still will say this.. A good side project takes one or more known solutions and applies it to a niche. There's endless niches out there if you stand still and squint a bit.
Post reply on HN