This is nice.
Recently discovered something similar: Flexoki - https://stephango.com/flexoki
Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
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No, this is not how words work. You may also love making chocolate, and love dogs, but you would not make chocolate and claim it was for dogs simply because you love both things. For means there is a relationship, a benefit or inclusion between the two items. X for Y means that you have associated X with Y, and they should be used in conjunction. There are so many valid uses of the word “for” and somehow this satisfi…
I don't want to start an argument or anything, but I honestly do not understand your take. If someone who loves and studies chocolate becomes, say, a bartender, and makes a cocktail specifically for the tastes of people who love chocolate in the same way they do, it is not unreasonable for them to advertise their cocktail as a "cocktail for chocolate lovers". Will it be an appealing cocktail for all chocolate lovers?…
Your example is perfectly reasonable. There is a relationship between cocktails and chocolate, and you expressed what that relationship is: he is making cocktails specifically oriented at people who love the flavor of chocolate.
When asked about the relationship between the color palette and the internet, his response failed to show any. He is not making an internet with colors, or colors with an internet, those are nonsensical statements. So in what sense is it for internet lovers? What characteristics of an “internet lover” would draw them to these colors?
When another commenter asked a similar question, his response was, “it’s not that deep”
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I suppose that short Japanese words have the advantage of being something that the Anglosphere knows about enough to be acquainted with, distant enough to not have too many opinions about, while also being easily pronounceable from the transliteration. If so, I'm going to provide a few examples: Other candidates with easily pronounceable romanizations (from an Anglophone perspective) that are more culturally proximat…
Having heard enough Americans cringe-inducingly mangle Japanese, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. I had someone serve me an order of ’guy ohza’ just a couple of weeks ago. If the people selling the products can’t even pronounce the names correctly, I definitely don’t want to hear the customers’ attempts.
What's interesting to me is that a "good enough" approximation of Japanese phonology is pretty easy for native English speakers to express. The issue is just they have to understand the really consistent syllable structure to parse it out of the romaji.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suppose that short Japanese words have the advantage of being something that the Anglosphere knows about enough to be acquainted with, distant enough to not have too many opinions about, while also being easily pronounceable from the transliteration. If so, I'm going to provide a few examples: Other candidates with easily pronounceable romanizations (from an Anglophone perspective) that are more culturally proximat…
Having heard enough Americans cringe-inducingly mangle Japanese, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. I had someone serve me an order of ’guy ohza’ just a couple of weeks ago. If the people selling the products can’t even pronounce the names correctly, I definitely don’t want to hear the customers’ attempts.
You have a point, English proper lacks the semivocalic-i after a consonant (as /Cj/), except where followed by /uː/. So also "Bee-ORN" for Björn, and "MA-fee-uh" instead of Italian "MA-fya" for mafia.
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I don't mind that it has that many points - I actually really like the work that guy did. What I don't understand is why all the comments are so weird. It's like everyone who had a bad day decided to come here and take it out on this his work.
Welcome to Hacker News, a news site for autistic geeks who take your work apart in their anger for the world.
This autistic geek finds the excessive cynicism here really tiresome.
Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
#237I'm confused by the usage of the word color scheme. To me a color scheme is something like monokai. A small number of colors that go well together. The application (eg syntax highlighting in a code editor) is obvious and easy. This is just...lots of monochrome colors? How would I use this? Not trying to be dismissive, I'm just confused.
Yeah imo they should've used "color palette". Similar to:
Open Color from OpenProps https://yeun.github.io/open-color/
Tailwind's color palette https://tailwindcss.com/docs/colors
As far as design goes, color palettes can be extremely difficult to choose while maintaining good scores on color contrast and other accessibility measures. A standardized palette is useful because it does all that work for you. Having these 3 options to choose from is pretty nice since I often reach for OC or TW palettes but often find them lacking in hues I want.
Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
#238I'm confused by the usage of the word color scheme. To me a color scheme is something like monokai. A small number of colors that go well together. The application (eg syntax highlighting in a code editor) is obvious and easy. This is just...lots of monochrome colors? How would I use this? Not trying to be dismissive, I'm just confused.
I'm also equally confused how essentially a list of boxes with colours gets 476 points.
Choosing a color palette is actually quite a difficult task from a design perspective. You have to take into account color contrast and many other accessibility measures. When I start small projects I often reach for Open Color[0] or TW's palette[1] (even if I don't use TW) because they've done all that work for me. Having a third option to choose from is something I look forward to
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> Intentional (NOKlA) I'm not sure what your point is exactly, but fwiw, Nokia is the name of the Finnish town from which the Nokia company originates. They used to make rubber products such as rubber boots. I once had a bike with Nokia branded inner tyres (same logo, just without the "Connecting People" payoff). There's absolutely nothing Japanese about the word "Nokia", except maybe in the eye (ear?) of the beholde…
GP is referring to "NOKLA" phones[1][2]. The "L" is intentionally lower-cased to make it look like a capital "I." [1] https://www.engadget.com/2009-04-01-keepin-it-real-fake-part... [2] https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/nokla-mobile-phone.html
Oh wow I had totally missed that. Nasty!
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> Intentional (NOKlA) I'm not sure what your point is exactly, but fwiw, Nokia is the name of the Finnish town from which the Nokia company originates. They used to make rubber products such as rubber boots. I once had a bike with Nokia branded inner tyres (same logo, just without the "Connecting People" payoff). There's absolutely nothing Japanese about the word "Nokia", except maybe in the eye (ear?) of the beholde…
I suspect rather [Nokian tyres]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokian_Tyres ), rather than Nokia. Either way, yes, Nokia is for sure a Finnish word, not a Japanese one, but the confusion has been around [for more than quarter of a decade]( https://www.wired.com/1999/09/nokia/#:~:text=A%20surprising,... )
Yes but this once was the same company.
Eg this image from your Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokian_Tyres#/media/File:Nokia... even has the same logo/font as Nokia used to have on their phones (except rendered here as an outline).
