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Happy Hues – Curated colors in context
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#22I will bookmark this, because I dont have an esthetic sense, and never know wich color to use in my projects. End up doing everything in black and white.
I spent some time finding good colors for my terminal, I usually reuse that when I design some website / webapp. 99% of the time I use monospaced fonts and my interface ends up looking a lot like a CLI application, but since most of my work is oriented towards technical people, end users often tell me they dig the design.
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#23Great site! I love playing with colour combinations, but I don't have the colour sense to be able to put together palettes myself.
On the data side, I have often (mis)used colorbrewer [0] to play with colours and see what might work well in visualizations.
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#24All of these palates look very trendy 'contemporary big tech'. Something about the pastel colours. They go with the visual design. But it seems very monocultural. I personally find them really distatesful (and isn't design about taste after all). Give me a nice saturated green any day.
> and isn't design about taste after all
As much as software design is about taste. So, depending on what your objective is, a lot or not at all but mostly somewhere in between.
Best practices, industry standards, the-right-tool-for-the-right-job-thinking, psychology, math, trends and, of course, personal feelings will all take part in the design decision making process.
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#25It is awesome seeing colours in context. I've so frequently rejigged the palette whilst building the website, so this would stop doing that. I'd love to be able to pick my own colours and to see how they look, instead of being bound by the pre-set ones... better yet being able to pick a 'starter' colour then having it create a complementary palette and seeing how that appears.
May I recommend http://paletton.com You can start with your base color and introduce variations above the colour wheel.
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#26Very neat idea! I like the different color palettes available. You can see how a slight change in a shade can have a lot of impact.
I think the experience could be vastly improved by using CSS Variables (Custom Properties): you can update all the colors with JS in a single click (even the colors embedded in SVGs). That way, the color swap would be instant (no page reload) but you could still provide a direct sharing URL by replacing the state of the URL in the address bar.
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#27There was another example many months ago of something like this which I really liked and I curse myself for not bookmarking it. My search attempts have failed. I love sites that give ideas in color relationships.
Did you try HN's own search? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
I think its a 3rd party search. Just that the company was funded by HN. Anyways, it could be nice if there was a link in the UI that leads to this search.
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#28I'd love to see it become standard practice to use a system like this to define a set of SASS variables that could then be composed in other rules rather than either hard coding the colors in each rule or using utility classes (e.g. ".blue").
You could probably do the same thing with text styles by defining variables for things like headline font, body font, monospaced font, etc.
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#29All of these palates look very trendy 'contemporary big tech'. Something about the pastel colours. They go with the visual design. But it seems very monocultural. I personally find them really distatesful (and isn't design about taste after all). Give me a nice saturated green any day.
> and isn't design about taste after all As much as software design is about taste. So, depending on what your objective is, a lot or not at all but mostly somewhere in between. Best practices, industry standards, the-right-tool-for-the-right-job-thinking, psychology, math, trends and, of course, personal feelings will all take part in the design decision making process.
It's true. What I'm getting at is there when you take that all into account, there are no absolute universals. There are many axes. So it can pay to accept some diversity.
To quote the site:
> ... by understanding the psychology of color, you can choose a color that will resonate with your target audience and give off the vibe & emotion you want.
Within this selection of palates there is no variance in this particular dimension of «pastel-ness». They all seem to lie on the same place on that axis. And that dimension is one thing that seems to unite a lot of contemporary deisgn.
Hence this feeling like another item of conformity with the monoculture.
It's not all that serious — just some colours. But interesting nonetheless. You don't often have the opportunity to talk about contemporary colour palates.
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#30I'd love to see it become standard practice to use a system like this to define a set of SASS variables that could then be composed in other rules rather than either hard coding the colors in each rule or using utility classes (e.g. ".blue"). You could probably do the same thing with text styles by defining variables for things like headline font, body font, monospaced font, etc.
You mean like https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.5 ?