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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

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post #14

HN top bar colours by popularity: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors

I mean, default is pretty interesting that it's at the top.

Even more bizarre is that 15-25 spots are mostly different hues of orange. A bit improbable to have that many land so close.

Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity

#72
post #41
post #34

Based on the title, I imagined crawling all websites and counting how many pixels used each colour.

my thoughts too. while this page is interesting, I'd be much more interested to know the results of what you describe it would be fairly easily to implement, although probably quite expensive in either cost or time

Would be much more interesting indeed.

Could use sampling and still get reliable estimates?

Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity

#74
post #34

Based on the title, I imagined crawling all websites and counting how many pixels used each colour.

Ultimately, wouldn't that just see which is the most popular background color? Pixel-for-pixel the background takes up the largest percentage of screen space on most websites.

Though I would also be interested to see what the most popular background colors are. My money's on white and off-white.

Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity

#75
post #14

HN top bar colours by popularity: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors

Wait, you can change the top bar color? That's news to me.

Only available for premium users

(Joking aside it is behind a karma limit for some reason)

Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity

#79
post #14

HN top bar colours by popularity: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors

Wait, you can change the top bar color? That's news to me.

At certain karma thresholds, different things unlock. There's a list somewhere but I'm not sure if it's up-to-date.[0] It looks like top bar color can be changed once you hit 250 karma.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=853964

Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity

#80

I think that if there is voting, one should sort of do some type of spreading algorithm where the color you vote on, is sort of a much weaker vote for the surrounding colors. There is just too many colours, especially in this color space, and it is sort of hard for humans to really differentiate them. Thus spread out the vote based on average human visual perception differentiability capabilities. Also this color spa…

> Also this color space (R x B x G box color space) spends too many bits on low intensity and high intensity colors.

Isn’t that what the gamma is for?

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