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Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors

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Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors

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Post by esikich »

encrypted_bird wrote: post #19
esikich wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who cares. As if every website needs to be meticulously hand crafted. You mad at people that use css templates too?

> Who cares? I care. So do they.

Sounds like gatekeeping to me. They have an interesting idea and story and probably aren't web devs. But you write it off because the design (the least important point of telling the story) doesn't match your sweaty purity test. If anything, these vibe coded projects are the new plain HTML or Angelfire sites that a lot of people here seem to pine for. No one is getting off of your lawn anytime soon. Whining about it is just fucking annoying.

Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors

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Post by nonethewiser »

jmatan wrote: post #12

i do like the concept, though the blatantly claude-tinged "italicized word " visual language undermines the author's credibility w.r.t graphic design history imo

Agree except I think it actually fits the content of the page. Seems like a natural fit.

Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors

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Post by danielvaughn »

The web has its own storied color, albeit a tragic one. Rebecca Purple is a named CSS color, which was added in tribute to Eric Meyer's daughter, who very sadly passed away at a young age. That shade was her favorite color.

https://medium.com/@valgaze/the-hidden-purple-memorial-in-yo...

Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors

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Post by thorum »

zetalyrae wrote: post #4
lekevicius wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Known generative-AI crawlers are disallowed in robots.txt. This is a research catalogue assembled from primary sources; it is not training data, and a model fine-tuned on these paragraphs would launder out exactly the part — the citations — that gives the prose its value. This reads like distaste for LLMs - but generally website reads (and is designed as!) very LLMy.

If the About page said who made it, i.e. if someone was putting their reputation on the line, I might be more receptive. But the website has enough LLM design tics to make me suspicious. It's sad. I come to Hacker News to see cool stuff and when I click on a link and see something obviously put together by an LLM I feel like I've been tricked :(

I actually think “explore Claude’s understanding of colors” is an interesting concept. A lot of fascinating cultural information gets compressed into LLMs.

Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors

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Post by NetOpWibby »

danielvaughn wrote: post #24

The web has its own storied color, albeit a tragic one. Rebecca Purple is a named CSS color, which was added in tribute to Eric Meyer's daughter, who very sadly passed away at a young age. That shade was her favorite color. https://medium.com/@valgaze/the-hidden-purple-memorial-in-yo...

When I learned of this it hit me at the time that the web is made of real people, built by real people.

Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors

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Post by moralestapia »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #26
danielvaughn wrote: post #24

The web has its own storied color, albeit a tragic one. Rebecca Purple is a named CSS color, which was added in tribute to Eric Meyer's daughter, who very sadly passed away at a young age. That shade was her favorite color. https://medium.com/@valgaze/the-hidden-purple-memorial-in-yo...

When I learned of this it hit me at the time that the web is made of real people, built by real people.

And, as usual, some of those people are more equal that others.

Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors

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Post by zetalyrae »

thorum wrote: post #25
zetalyrae wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the About page said who made it, i.e. if someone was putting their reputation on the line, I might be more receptive. But the website has enough LLM design tics to make me suspicious. It's sad. I come to Hacker News to see cool stuff and when I click on a link and see something obviously put together by an LLM I feel like I've been tricked :(

I actually think “explore Claude’s understanding of colors” is an interesting concept. A lot of fascinating cultural information gets compressed into LLMs.

I think so too. But if that's what it is, that's how it should be presented.
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