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Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

#51

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…

As you suggested OKLCH colour option is added now to the site. Thanks again.

Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

#53

Hi, 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

Both issues are fixed now. Yes "Modernism" and "Modernismo" are the same, only some Latin American artists have art style as Modernismo instead just Modernism.

Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

#54
post #10

As 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

> is because of dirty & old oxidised varnish

And the pigments fade. And even worse, they fade at various rates and some are almost completely gone.

Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

#59
post #10

As 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

So we can use AI or even deterministic algorithms to recover the original palette.

Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

#60
ouli, I feel like the algorithm fails to capture the essential colors and their roles. For example, for Mondrian I expect to find a palette with white, black, red, blue, yellow. Instead, the palette is a big swatch of white, a big off-white, and then little strips of color, with some equally-weighted grays too.

For 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.

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