I am currently looking for colour palettes and this website is of interest to me. Small snag, some UTF8 things are going on with some colour names, I am sure you know and have cursed accordingly. I like OKLCH colours and the ability to mix them in interesting ways using CSS things. This means I don't do hex codes for colours in CSS. I can translate though, however, soon some people will demand OKLCH, so you might as…
Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
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#52The letter directory is based upon artist first name... seems odd especially as most are going to know the last name and only maybe the first.
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#53Hi, I like it! 2 things I noticed: 1) Aren't "Modernism" and "Modernismo" the same thing? I'm a Spanish speaker and from my POV they are 2) Selected "Naïve Art" style and it's broken (images not loading). Probably something to do with the diaeresis
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#54As an "expert viewer" of Baumgartner Restoration, this site usefulness is questionable. If you look at those color palettes, most of them brownish that is because of dirty & old oxidised varnish. These are not the intended look of these paintings. So these color palettes has nothing to do with those 3000 masters. https://youtube.com/@baumgartnerrestoration
And the pigments fade. And even worse, they fade at various rates and some are almost completely gone.
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#57Why no contemporary/modern painters? First looked for Basquiat then Lichtenstein , nothing
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#59As an "expert viewer" of Baumgartner Restoration, this site usefulness is questionable. If you look at those color palettes, most of them brownish that is because of dirty & old oxidised varnish. These are not the intended look of these paintings. So these color palettes has nothing to do with those 3000 masters. https://youtube.com/@baumgartnerrestoration
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#60For Monet, many of the paintings have an important color highlight (e.g., the orange sun), which isn't captured in any of the palettes.
Needs more tweaking.