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Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#101
post #20

Show HN is supposed to be for showing your own work https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html so you might have miscategorized this, m1guelpf.

I'm sorry for this, apparently I misread the HN rules. Is there any way I can edit it to remove the "Show HN" part?

Fixed now.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#102
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.

>so you could send links to specific palettes

Check out the pushState/replaceState/popstate API to update the URI without reloading the page, while still sending users with the link directly to that colour scheme.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#103

The notorious Millennial Pink somewhat over-used here? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2017/mar/... https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/what-is-millennial-pink

Interesting. That sort of pink was also Pantone's color of the year.[1] It's definitely a super popular color in contemporary design. [1] https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-of-the-year...

Coral != 'millennial pink', the Pantone color of the year in 2016 was basically millennial pink though (it was actually two colors that year, the pink and a matching blue) I'm a big fan of soft pinks like that actually, but they are def overused

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#106
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.

IMO the animate on page load was fine. It was the animations upon scrolling that got annoying after a while.

Also, there are a few ways to change url without reloads, though, yeah, that might add some complexity.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#108

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://www.colorsandfonts.com/. It has a lot of color options such as gradients, contrasts, pallets, and has font pairings too.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't know how to describe it, sorry. Like as if they are all printed on recycling paper, perhaps? They have a touch of grayness? Or perhaps it is "all pastels", as the other comment said? Sorry I am not artist enough to be able to describe it.

Ah gotcha. Yeah there is definitely a lot of pastel palettes on there. I guess that's what I lean towards. I'll try to add more, non pastel palettes soon :)
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