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Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by harimau777 »

afandian wrote: post #30
harimau777 wrote: post #28

I'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 ?

The difference that I would see is that most designers probably don't want to be restricted to just the colors that are defined in the spec and it would be useful to have the colors associated with their purpose (e.g. text color, background color) so that they could be changed without having to change them throughout the various rules.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by afandian »

harimau777 wrote: post #31
afandian wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean like https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.5 ?

The difference that I would see is that most designers probably don't want to be restricted to just the colors that are defined in the spec and it would be useful to have the colors associated with their purpose (e.g. text color, background color) so that they could be changed without having to change them throughout the various rules.

Yes, sorry, I was being flippant.

Giving names to colours in a universal spec like HTML5 would be asking for trouble. You'd be on a never-ending treadmill of new colours. Constants (however that's done, e.g. SASS variables) is clearly the way to go.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by nathancahill »

hellofunk wrote: post #2

There 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.

Was it this from 3 months ago? https://www.colorbox.io/

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by baumgarn »

One note I find the heavy emphasis on the black lines in the design a bit distracting. The colors itself become a bit of a sidenote here.

Also I get seasick from the animation when changing colors, would be nice if just the colors were fading and the layout stays constant.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by rriepe »

adventskalender wrote: post #12

I love the approach, however, the palettes all seem to be in the same style. A bit more diversity would be cool. Any other sites HN could recommend for picking colors? I suck at that. Colourlovers is a classic I know about, but iirc it is complicated with copyright. https://www.colourlovers.com/

I made one that gives 12 palettes for any base color: http://strapless.io/

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by rriepe »

harimau777 wrote: post #28

I'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.

I made something like this in Less, and I don't think Sass can do it.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by elefantastisch »

DarwinMailApp wrote: post #8

This is incredibly useful for anyone designing a new site from scratch. I think it's quite useful for reimagining the colors of your existing site, too, with one caveat. I'd love to be able to enter some of my own colors - and have your tool suggest a color palette. Not the easiest feature to add, but would be exceptionally useful. Either way, I love what you do, mackenziechild and have followed your work for years.…

https://coolors.co/ can suggest colors to go with user-entered colors.

No affiliation, just a tool I've used.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by apsanz »

adventskalender wrote: post #12

I love the approach, however, the palettes all seem to be in the same style. A bit more diversity would be cool. Any other sites HN could recommend for picking colors? I suck at that. Colourlovers is a classic I know about, but iirc it is complicated with copyright. https://www.colourlovers.com/

I like https://coolors.co/ for quickly cycling though options and being able lock certain colors.
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