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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 sailfast »

matsemann wrote: post #10

I forgot my glasses in the hurry to work today, so I might be more susceptible to this than usual, but some of the contrasts are very low. For instance palette 14 the yellow links on white, or palette 10 the yellow links on green, are both impossible to read. Update: Contrast 1.02 according to devtools in firefox. Other than that I like the palettes.

Concur - some of the contrasts would need to be improved for the palettes to be accessible. I found this particularly true with dark backgrounds and light hyperlink text.

Great effort on the site though - was fun to look through to look at some options.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by mackenziechild »

sombremesa wrote: post #53
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.…

> I'd love to be able to enter some of my own colors - and have your tool suggest a color palette. Not sure whether that's possible with this site, since it was built without code.

It probably _could_ be, but I'd probably have to build (or hire someone to build) some sort of external app / database to manage all that.

A simpler solution I thought about what recreating the layout in Figma or Sketch, then someone could create their own palette simply by tweaking color swatches (and have it auto update on the mockup).

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by mackenziechild »

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.…

Thanks dude, you're too kind

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by mackenziechild »

skavi wrote: post #3

The design of this website is beautiful. I just wish it didn't reload after each palette change. Also, a toggle for the animations would be nice. They get a bit annoying after a bit.

Ahh, thanks for the feedback! I can definitely tone down the animations... Or maybe remove them for everything but the homepage.

I did the reload / separate pages because 1) to make my life easier building it lol and 2) so you could send links to specific palettes.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by mackenziechild »

james_impliu wrote: post #15

It 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.

I'm thinking about building a Figma or Sketch file that allows someone to do just that :)

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by mackenziechild »

swah wrote: post #49
imafish wrote: post #17

Really impressive that you can build something like this with Webflow.

Actually I wonder if our end is near. Or maybe we become specialists in helping our clients with the Nocode solution they've chosen?

I think No-Code is great because it allows anyone to test out and launch their ideas.

I definitely don't think it's the end of developers though. Some of these no-code projects will grow to a point where they need more custom solutions where a developer will be needed.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by mackenziechild »

otterpro wrote: post #56
nathancahill wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paging u/mackenziechild https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mackenziechild

Mackenzie Child also did http://www.lolcolors.com/ a while back.

Yeah, ended up selling that one :/

But Happy Hues is a better version imho :)

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by BoorishBears »

mackenziechild wrote: post #59
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/

What do you mean by same style? Like alternating backgrounds and such? I used Webflow CMS to build it, so I was a little bit limited in the amount of colors I could use unless I wanted to upgrade to the business plan lol.

All pastels
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