Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

colorvote.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 134 posts

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

#83

Post by ralusek »

2 colors appear on both best and worst. Each lists a maximum of 5 colors. That should be enough to stop the experiment right there, unless your goal is to find the most controversial colors.

The takeaway seems to be that color preferences are highly subjective to the point that you might just be getting noise.

Also how is it that people are even seeing the same colors for this to have happened? Even with birthday problem seems unlikely that two of the exact same hex colors would end up on the two very short lists. Are you sure you're shuffling these?

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

#84

Post by anonymous_sorry »

Huh, stumbled upon a strange visual effect. I got #0cc3bf (sorta cyan) above #acc2e0. When looking at the cyan, the other colour appeared lighter shade of blue/cyan in my peripheral vision. When I then looked straight at the lower colour it turned lilac. Almost pink to begin with. The effect was quite striking initially, to the extent that I suspected the page was varying the colour.

I'm on mobile. The phone was perhaps a little over a foot from my face. It's a sunny day in a room with a South facing window. I have a warmish LED light on (3000K).

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

#87

Post by irrational »

Every one was easy to pick my preferred color until I got to 824268 and 199989. I honestly couldn’t choose which I preferred. I sat there for awhile trying to decide when the colors changed. Is it on a timer or did I accidentally choose one of the colors, even though I don’t think I did?

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

#88

Post by radlad »

bestouff wrote: post #62
bhouston wrote: post #57

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 depends on the color calibration of your computer and monitor chain, so merging adjacent colors would effectively be a good idea.

I think there is probably a bias (to your brain) based on the last two colors shown as well.

Similar to those "these boxes/squares are the same color" illusions.

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

#89

Post by M3L0NM4N »

sebmellen wrote: post #61
sph wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For me, green is super useful. If the top bar is green, I'm logged in. If it's orange, I'm logged out. My top bar color is #ccff99.

Pro-tip, that also works with all other colors except green.

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

#90

Post by permo-w »

hbbio wrote: post #72
permo-w wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

how would you sample reliably though?

I'd imagine you get white and black in one or two, but then what?

I bet some pretty interesting graphs could be drawn with the results

Post reply on HN