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Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by culi »

MortyWaves wrote: post #243
culi wrote: post #238

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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 [0] https://yeun.github.io/open-co…

Which is even more frustrating that the linked site does not have a good set of colours per the comments...

Yeah I posted before seeing the reviews about the a11y shortcomings. I probably won't include this palette into my rotation after all

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by culi »

xanderlewis wrote: post #196
freeopinion wrote: post #85

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Does it bother you to have a product name like Galaxy or Forester? It seems very odd to me that somebody would complain about single-word product names. Or are you complaining about the origin language? Or are you just jealous that somebody is using a two-syllable word instead of something like Navigator? Or perhaps you are peeved it isn't a single-syllable name like Chrome. Is a word like Ubuntu ok if it isn't Japan…

I'm not as bothered by it as you seem to think; I was more just pointing out that the trend of naming everything after random Japanese words is a bit stale — especially if there's no relation to Japan and you don't speak Japanese. > Or do you mean that words like Twitter and Yahoo should be phased out and everything should just be a single letter like X? Yes. Apart from my children, who will be named things like X Æ…

Pinterest names their design system "Gestalt" but they're not a German company. GitLab names theirs "Pajamas" but they're not primarily Urdu speaking.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by MyOutfitIsVague »

YurgenJurgensen wrote: post #206
retropragma wrote: post #138

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Lmao, HN will complain about anything. Leave the guy alone

And yet, here you are, complaining about people complaining.

That's not at all incongruous. If I'm saying "You are complaining about something stupid", I am not necessarily criticizing the concept of complaining itself, which would be hypocritical.

I seriously hate this argument. "You are nit-picking", "and here you are nitpicking my nitpicking, interesting that we are on exactly equal ground now". It's a dumb turn-around that could be used to attempt to silence any criticism of any criticism.

Sometimes, a criticism or complaint is not valid or frivolous. Pointing that out is not inherently invalid or frivolous.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by MyOutfitIsVague »

ok_dad wrote: post #221
NetOpWibby wrote: post #140

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It's amazing LOL I could never be bothered by them

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Is this "stealing"? Is it stealing any time somebody in another language uses a borrowed English word?

This is a pretty extreme reaction, honestly. I fail to see how a minor misunderstanding of a Japanese word could possibly affect anybody negatively. Could you give a single scenario where this use of this word is harmful?

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by d1sxeyes »

skrebbel wrote: post #240
d1sxeyes wrote: post #203

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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).

Huh! My apologies, you are absolutely right.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by hammock »

ashu1461 wrote: post #149
joshuamcginnis wrote: post #70

TIL about oklch() https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...

https://v0-oklch-visualiser-e69nx1.vercel.app/ Made a visualiser using v0 to understand it better :)

Is this and OP website supposed to be broken on iOS safari? I see no colors

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by tokioyoyo »

xanderlewis wrote: post #196
freeopinion wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it bother you to have a product name like Galaxy or Forester? It seems very odd to me that somebody would complain about single-word product names. Or are you complaining about the origin language? Or are you just jealous that somebody is using a two-syllable word instead of something like Navigator? Or perhaps you are peeved it isn't a single-syllable name like Chrome. Is a word like Ubuntu ok if it isn't Japan…

I'm not as bothered by it as you seem to think; I was more just pointing out that the trend of naming everything after random Japanese words is a bit stale — especially if there's no relation to Japan and you don't speak Japanese. > Or do you mean that words like Twitter and Yahoo should be phased out and everything should just be a single letter like X? Yes. Apart from my children, who will be named things like X Æ…

That’s basically how words are borrowed from one language and brought into another.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by darkerside »

tacitusarc wrote: post #172
NetOpWibby wrote: post #84

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I love the internet, and I love great colors...surely I cannot be the only one! ;)

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'm glad I'm not the only one annoyed. It's a clickbait title, whether intentional or not.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by xanderlewis »

culi wrote: post #252
xanderlewis wrote: post #196

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I'm not as bothered by it as you seem to think; I was more just pointing out that the trend of naming everything after random Japanese words is a bit stale — especially if there's no relation to Japan and you don't speak Japanese. > Or do you mean that words like Twitter and Yahoo should be phased out and everything should just be a single letter like X? Yes. Apart from my children, who will be named things like X Æ…

Pinterest names their design system "Gestalt" but they're not a German company. GitLab names theirs "Pajamas" but they're not primarily Urdu speaking.

Your second example is a bit disingenuous since the word ‘pyjamas’ is a perfectly normal English word, regardless of its etymology.

As for the first: there isn’t a silly trend of naming everything after randomly-chosen German words, so at least it’s fairly original.

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