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

Post by willio58 » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 5:53 AM UTC

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

Post by dillondoyle » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 8:42 PM UTC

jimhefferon wrote: post #45

dillondoyle wrote: post #34

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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 th…

Post by maxsavin » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

orangesquirrel wrote: post #52

maxsavin wrote: post #9

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Honestly, half of the point was to have a native app. It changes the perception of the product, gives it a proper presence on your app dock, works offline, and has the system related features you would expect :) It also helps piggyback on the App Store for discovery.

I just purchased this app after reading this comment and was very disappointed to discover that it is not a native app, but an Electron app. Furthermore, maybe I am missing something, but where are the color management settings?

Post by jimhefferon » Sat, May 01, 2021, 7:41 PM UTC

dillondoyle wrote: post #53

jimhefferon wrote: post #45

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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 th…

? that's crazy to me! how can one claim to copyright a combination of colors, especially if it's not in combination like copying the pepsi logo or seomthing