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Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#11

There was another example many months ago of something like this which I really liked and I curse myself for not bookmarking it. My search attempts have failed. I love sites that give ideas in color relationships.

Did you try HN's own search?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#12
I love the approach, however, the palettes all seem to be in the same style. A bit more diversity would be cool.

Any other sites HN could recommend for picking colors? I suck at that.

Colourlovers is a classic I know about, but iirc it is complicated with copyright. https://www.colourlovers.com/

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#13
All of these palates look very trendy 'contemporary big tech'. Something about the pastel colours. They go with the visual design.

But it seems very monocultural. I personally find them really distatesful (and isn't design about taste after all). Give me a nice saturated green any day.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#14
Great! Love a new set of colors and was just looking for some the other day. There are some other similar websites, but glad there's more! More colors the better.

I've decided on some websites to entirely ditch this color scheme palette and just go with a full-on gradient: https://sdan.io/ since I couldn't find good schemes at the time.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#15
It is awesome seeing colours in context. I've so frequently rejigged the palette whilst building the website, so this would stop doing that.

I'd love to be able to pick my own colours and to see how they look, instead of being bound by the pre-set ones... better yet being able to pick a 'starter' colour then having it create a complementary palette and seeing how that appears.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#16

I love the approach, however, the palettes all seem to be in the same style. A bit more diversity would be cool. Any other sites HN could recommend for picking colors? I suck at that. Colourlovers is a classic I know about, but iirc it is complicated with copyright. https://www.colourlovers.com/

Lately I have been using color.adobe[0] or palx[1] a lot.

[0] https://color.adobe.com

[1] https://palx.jxnblk.com

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

#18
post #3

The design of this website is beautiful. I just wish it didn't reload after each palette change. Also, a toggle for the animations would be nice. They get a bit annoying after a bit.

Yes the reload is a shame - especially given that it needs a whole bunch of third-party JS to render anyway, it's annoying to have history fill up of different colour palletes.

Great resource though, I'm bad at this, will certainly use in future I'm sure.

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