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

#31

So simple - but so cool. What a great idea. My only "critique" would be to make the hex codes copy/paste ready in the results. I like the links to dribble, but I'd really like to just be able to quickly copy/paste the hex codes.

good point! What i'm thinking of doing is add a link to colourco.de so you can see the palettes there.

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

#32
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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? :-)

oh, didnt think about it, that seems like a very very easy implementation actually.

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

#33

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...

I'm also curious about the algorithm, since a search for "google" results in a palette that only features one color out of the company's primary-plus-green motif. Seems like backgrounds (white in the case of Google, black in the case of demotivational posters) are weighted a little too strongly, perhaps.

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

#37
This is pretty great!

I think maybe there's a little too much averaging going on? I get a lot of muted colors and way more browns than expected. For example, try "America" or "France" or "China" (I actually first tried "murica") and you might expect to see pretty standard bright colors, but it's not so much the case. The query where I got exactly what I expected was "fabulous".

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

#39

This is pretty great! I think maybe there's a little too much averaging going on? I get a lot of muted colors and way more browns than expected. For example, try "America" or "France" or "China" (I actually first tried "murica") and you might expect to see pretty standard bright colors, but it's not so much the case. The query where I got exactly what I expected was "fabulous".

I'm not sure how "America" is associated with particular colours. Perhaps if you search "american flag" you would get what you want?
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