HN top bar colours by popularity: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors
I mean, default is pretty interesting that it's at the top.
Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
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Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#22People would probably vote more if they had to vote at least 5 times to see the ranks, i.e. say "3 more votes to see ranks" in top center, and then pop up the ranks automatically. I don't think anyone would be mad.
Here I am clicking color after color like a dunce, wondering when I get to see the ranking. After 20-30 or so clicks I finally notice the ultra-tiny-low-contrast "Ranks" text.
In my defense I'm outside with a ton of glare...
Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#23It's a nice toy, but I doubt its practical value as in design you deal with color palettes, not standalone colors. I might be wrong, but my gut feeling is that "the most popular" color wouldn't necessarily end up as a part of the most popular palette, or even in top 5.
I don’t think the goal is to provide practical value.
Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#24It's a nice toy, but I doubt its practical value as in design you deal with color palettes, not standalone colors. I might be wrong, but my gut feeling is that "the most popular" color wouldn't necessarily end up as a part of the most popular palette, or even in top 5.
Look, guy. Okay? Listen up here.
> But which one of these motherfuckers is the best color?
> Together, we've voted on 0.27834177017211914% of all colors.
> (Don't worry, we'll get there.)
Good news is, you are completely right and the author agrees. It is a joke. Which brings us to the bad news — but it's a monday which is hard enough so I'll let it slide.
Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#25https://colornames.org/ Has 17.9% colors named already.
Might work as a joke but several of those colors will be indistinguishable to human eye, yet have completely different crowd-sourced names.
Or - could you ever tell the difference between "Amateur Rockstar Bright Pink" (#ff1aab) and "Pink Soul Of Heart" (#ff1bab) even if your life depended on it?
The fact that 24-bit RGB can represent 16 million colors does not mean our vision is capable of telling such number of colors apart from each other. Creating a coherent and concise naming system for all them could be an interesting (and perhaps quite challenging) technical task, but I don't believe crowd-sourcing those will yield any usable results. Or - how many colors with "poop" in their name do you think is acceptable? https://colornames.org/search/results/?type=partial&query=po...
And how about "asdf" (the first four letters on the home row of a QWERTY keyboard - an age-old internet troll version of "foobar")? https://colornames.org/search/results/?type=partial&query=as...
Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#26HN top bar colours by popularity: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors
What's the story with that green being the second most popular?
Would be nice to see percentages/total users. It might be only used by 5 accounts of the same person.
Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#27Why are you specifically capturing the pixel size of the viewport? and likewise the user agent separately from request headers?
Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#28People would probably vote more if they had to vote at least 5 times to see the ranks, i.e. say "3 more votes to see ranks" in top center, and then pop up the ranks automatically. I don't think anyone would be mad.
I voted 15 times and no results
Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#29Do they strictly increase vote on only the hues shown? Having a weighted multiplier of the vote on nearby hues that decreases the further away you go would reach a conclusion quicker.
Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
#30Voting on all 16 million is a cool concept, but given that this is probably going to be popular for only a day or so, probably not achievable. From your own ranks, only 0.27% of colours have been voted on at all, and most likely the majority of those voted on have a single vote.