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Re: Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

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Post by heiselberg » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 4:02 PM UTC

Great idea! I will absolutely usw this

Re: Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

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Post by thekylemontag » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 4:16 PM UTC

Hope DO comes back up soon! I want to check this out.

Re: Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

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Post by ch4s3 » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 4:16 PM UTC

I love it! This is a really fun idea. My favorite so far is 'coin operated helicopter'

Re: Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

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Post by daddykotex » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 4:16 PM UTC

I really like that, that it's nice a idea to build palettes on related images. I thought you would have a special formula that matches words with specific colors!

Re: Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

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Post by manueslapera » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 4:30 PM UTC

pocketheyman wrote: post #7

This is a solid. Simple, intuitive, organized. How long did it take to write?

I would say a couple of weeks, working maybe an hour a day?

so the hardest part was to build the palette login in Go.

Im not so good at it and it took me a lot of time, until I found out that someone had already built a palette logic in Go already, then everything was fine.

Re: Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

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Post by xmpirate » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 4:32 PM UTC

this is awesome!

Re: Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

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Post by manueslapera » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 4:52 PM UTC

dushonok wrote: post #6

Nice! Though it seems the app is biased towards darker hues

hmm really? can you give me an example?

Re: Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

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Post by jackmaney » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC

Cool! How does the color selection work? Is it just the five most common colors in a given image, or is it more sophisticated than that?

Re: Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

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Post by henningo » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC

Nice implementation - less is more!

What algorithm did you use for color extraction? I seem to getting colors with the correct hue, but too low saturation? (example: Ferrari)

You could also imagine to not show colors with very low saturation (ie. white/gray/blacks). I've previously used Colorific [1] which seems to address some of those things!

[1] http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/05/11/color-analysi...

Re: Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

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Post by elros » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 4:54 PM UTC

Hey compañero, that's very cool! I wonder how hard would it be to add the query to the URL so that I can paste it to someone? :-)