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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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Post by maxsavin »

swyx wrote: post #35
jimhefferon wrote: post #14

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.

here's my collection of color guides with some preselected colors: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#col...

thanks for adding Paletter :)

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

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Post by smoldesu »

maxsavin wrote: post #40
smoldesu wrote: post #38

This looks nice, but I don't think I'd want to pay $10 for a color picker, especially one that would only work on my Mac...

What kind of features would you want for ten dollars?

I think 10 dollars is a lot to ask for a color picker when there are lots of established and free online options (Adobe Kolor, Coolers, etc.). If you could match the featureset of those programs with some sort of cloud-saving functionality/library for my palette, I'd probably go for it. Especially if it has a Linux-native frontend like GTK, I'd end up using it pretty frequently.

Your call though, I'm just a guy who uses software.

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

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Post by maxsavin »

smoldesu wrote: post #42
maxsavin wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of features would you want for ten dollars?

I think 10 dollars is a lot to ask for a color picker when there are lots of established and free online options (Adobe Kolor, Coolers, etc.). If you could match the featureset of those programs with some sort of cloud-saving functionality/library for my palette, I'd probably go for it. Especially if it has a Linux-native frontend like GTK, I'd end up using it pretty frequently. Your call though, I'm just a guy who u…

Thanks. Paletter's feature set goes quite beyond what the mainstream tools offer, but maybe that needs to be more clear.

Cloud palettes are probably coming. As for Linux, would be a tough call since most designers are on Mac and Windows.

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

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Post by smoldesu »

willio58 wrote: post #2

Site isn’t responding for me. Does anyone have a good accessibility-oriented color generator that makes actually good color combinations?

Coolors[1] has never failed me. It's got a great UI, great workflow and is totally free.

[1] https://coolors.co

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

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Post by jimhefferon »

dillondoyle wrote: post #34
jimhefferon wrote: post #14

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.

https://www.colourlovers.com/ Though it's gotten ad spammy it seems

Thank you. I've bookmarked it. (I am fine with ads; although it can be overdone, of course.)

I'll mention that one thing that is appealing is that the license is clear. I use the palettes for some Freely-licensed projects and so I redistribute the materials. In many places it is hard to tell what is allowed (I have a number of times spent some effort tracking down a creator only to be eventually unable to get more than "It is free" for a license statement.)

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

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Post by jimhefferon »

maxsavin wrote: post #15
jimhefferon wrote: post #14

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

Thank you. At the site I mentioned, I found that I would pick some palettes that I thought suited my needs, and found that they did not follow any of the standard patterns (complementary, etc.). So I came to the sense that the patterns are fine as far as they go, but that they do not go all the way.

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

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Post by uxamanda »

krsdcbl wrote: post #22
jimhefferon wrote: post #14

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 backgroun…

Agree with you on all of your points. In case anyone is looking, https://coolors.co/generate is a good site for finding shades of a color (hover a color and go to the shade section).

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

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Post by programmarchy »

The app looks great! I appreciate the native Mac design, and the tab picker at the top is well done.

The intro video was helpful to see the app in action, but it was hard for me to understand the actual process of how I would "create a palette from a single color". It might be helpful to have more of a tutorial video with voice over that walks through starting with a color, and getting to a full palette.

The tagline of creating a palette from a single color is very compelling to me (as a developer with a modicum of design talent), but I was confused/overwhelmed by all the options and it was hard for me to piece together what was happening in the preview video.

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

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Post by ysavir »

noughtme wrote: post #36
slig wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Alright, maybe a bit more than 20 mins. It's ugly, it's rudimentary, but it works. Feel free to fork it. The color/palette generation functions can use some work and I am not a designer. Obviously it was a bit of a facetious comment, and props to the author for building a full iOS app. This is definitely not that. https://hn-color-palette-generator.netlify.app https://github.com/noughtme/color-palette/tree/main/src *…

This is actually very useful and tastefully done! Bookmarked!

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

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Post by FlashBlaze »

noughtme wrote: post #5

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…

https://color.cloudflare.design/ by Cloudflare is my go to nowadays.
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