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Show HN: Paletter – Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color

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Re: Show HN: Paletter – Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color

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I can't find any copy on the MAS listings or on the website that describes the differences between Paletter and Paletter Lite. Even just a feature matrix would be good.

Very good point, can't believe I missed that.

I have it inside Paletter Lite app.. have a screenshot for you here: https://imgur.com/a/CJvf0fh

Re: Show HN: Paletter – Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color

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Is there a specific reason this needs to be a program I download rather than just a website?

At least for Mac, people have completely different UI/UX expectations for a website and an app. Designers tend to be pretty picky about their tools.

Re: Show HN: Paletter – Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color

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Sadly, I lack the ability to generate good palettes. I just have a hole in my brain where that ability should go. So a palette generator is no help, for me.

Is there a good, reasonably active, site with a list of palettes that talented people were good enough to make Freely available? I used to go to kuler.adobe.com (spelling?) but I think it changed and I've since had trouble finding one that is as good.

Re: Show HN: Paletter – Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color

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Sadly, I lack the ability to generate good palettes. I just have a hole in my brain where that ability should go. So a palette generator is no help, for me. Is there a good, reasonably active, site with a list of palettes that talented people were good enough to make Freely available? I used to go to kuler.adobe.com (spelling?) but I think it changed and I've since had trouble finding one that is as good.

All you need is to pick a base color for your brand. Paletter will then generate different schemes and palettes for you based on that color. And you can play with it and explore :) I'm the same as you haha

Re: Show HN: Paletter – Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color

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I commend the author on their entrepreneurialism. Not sure why this needs to be a native app. You can code up a web app to generate color palettes in about 20 minutes, which is a fun excercise. Or you can just google color palette generator: https://tailwind.ink https://huey.design https://www.tailwindshades.com https://tailwind.simeongriggs.dev https://javisperez.github.io/tailwindcolorshades/ https://tailwind-color…

Designer here, actually a big fan of the desktop software approach. I tend to keep all my ressources as local as possible and don't really like working off webapps and being account & online bound in my process. I guess that's a matter of taste, but I'm really happy seeing this project pop up.

Re: Show HN: Paletter – Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color

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Sadly, I lack the ability to generate good palettes. I just have a hole in my brain where that ability should go. So a palette generator is no help, for me. Is there a good, reasonably active, site with a list of palettes that talented people were good enough to make Freely available? I used to go to kuler.adobe.com (spelling?) but I think it changed and I've since had trouble finding one that is as good.

All you need is to pick a base color for your brand. Paletter will then generate different schemes and palettes for you based on that color. And you can play with it and explore :) I'm the same as you haha

But it seems like there's a lot more that goes into making a palette specifically for user interfaces: https://design.gs.com/news/color

Re: Show HN: Paletter – Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

All you need is to pick a base color for your brand. Paletter will then generate different schemes and palettes for you based on that color. And you can play with it and explore :) I'm the same as you haha

But it seems like there's a lot more that goes into making a palette specifically for user interfaces: https://design.gs.com/news/color

There's a difference, part of it is a matter of a taste, like picking a color for your band, part of is it logical, like accessibility, color psychology, etc.

I'd say most people struggle with the taste part, and that's what Paletter helps with. The logical side of things can be learned quickly.

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