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

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Post by BudaDude »

irrational wrote: post #86
mcv wrote: post #34

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

I bet the most popular would be ones where one or more of the RGB are 00 or FF.

I was thinking the same thing. But they could exclude them since they are not real colors.

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

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Post by mgdlbp »

mgdlbp wrote: post #14

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

No, I lied! It's not sorted!

The observations of the other comments would be strange indeed, if it were. Looking back through old discussions, it turns out I'd misremembered a mix of speculating comments as fact. Most conclusively, the order is now completely different to when the page was discussed last month:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220615213203/https://news.ycom...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31759722)

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

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Post by eganist »

Aachen wrote: post #68
Kiro wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is your comment referring to?

What network requests the site makes, presumably. On mobile though so I can't verify my assumption as easily

Yes. Here's the json for one sample post request:

    {
     "winner": "#e28b20",
     "useragent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.114 Safari/537.36 Edg/103.0.1264.49",
     "loser": "#997e79",
     "time": "20220711T161234",
     "inner-width": 3840,
     "uuid": "4f076d53-5d84-4b4d-923e-803db7ca6150",
     "color-a": "#e28b20",
     "color-b": "#997e79",
     "inner-height": 2040
    }

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

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Post by sebmellen »

M3L0NM4N wrote: post #89
sebmellen wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Fair point, but I do think that given the "traffic-light" connotation, green indicating a "logged-in state" makes sense.

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

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Post by JansjoFromIkea »

Presumably the text color will distort the preferences? You're not deciding you prefer a color, you're deciding you prefer a background color for a white font.

At the moment it seems to be always white, maybe if it's always the opposite color on the color wheel that might offset it? Or maybe just have the text on a white card on the edge of the screen so you can focus on the color itself?

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

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Post by elil17 »

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…

They’re already about 1/500th of the way through the color space.

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

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Post by croes »

BudaDude wrote: post #92
irrational wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bet the most popular would be ones where one or more of the RGB are 00 or FF.

I was thinking the same thing. But they could exclude them since they are not real colors.

Why is FF0000 not a real color or FF5687?
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