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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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The product looks interesting. The website is pretty aggressive about trying to open the App Store. What is the difference between the Lite version and the paid version?

Thanks... good things happen when the end user is on the App Page :P

I am going to outline it on the next website.. for now, it's present in the Upgrade tab on Paletter Lite

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/CJvf0fh

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

#22

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.

If i spare a tiny bit of advice, it would be this: There's a big misunderstanding about what makes a good palette, and color palette tools are largely the culprit.

Creating a usable palettes has very little to do with the usual "find five colors that look good together" approach and is actually a much more tangible and technical process.

You'll want to start with ONE color. Create a step of shades onto your background color & check it for possible needs of hue and saturation tweaks along the grading.

Find a complementary dull, almost gray color and develop the same kinds of shade.

You're mostly done now. It's often advisable to find a secondary, complementary color to go with it, but that's it pretty much it for the breadth of the palette you'll actually need in most ui design projects.

Going off most of these typical 5c color palette proposals that look good on their own will almost never lead you to a good and foremost usable color scheme, it's nice to look at but the way these are used make it appear like you need half a dozen primary colors. What you'll actually want is one brand color and matching greyscale, and then work off the requirements of elements that need to stand out.

Just like with typography, heavy limitation but subtle alterations of your palette is what leads to a good looking, coherent design.

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…

Great list. I use one that follows Material Design guidelines. It's called Material Design Palette Generator (http://mcg.mbitson.com/), and the source is on GitHub (https://github.com/mbitson/mcg).

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…

Also Adobe Color (https://color.adobe.com)

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

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Just going by what I see in the video, I get the impression that the color palettes are generated in RGB space? I think you should at least support Lab if you want to call the app professional.

It supports RGB, LRGB, HSL, HCL and LAB (for now :)

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

#28
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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…

I'll thrown in my personal favorite, Paletton. I am not affiliated with them in any way, just a happy user.

https://paletton.com

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

#29
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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…

> You can code up a web app to generate color palettes in about 20 minutes, which is a fun excercise.

I'd be really interested in seeing someone do that in 20 minutes. If you ever decide to do that, please post here.

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