Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers • Hacker News Board

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by xanderlewis » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 7:03 PM UTC

tokioyoyo wrote: post #258

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…

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

I don’t think it is. It’s not random. Words are borrowed because they’re useful and fill in some gap or serve some new purpose.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by xanderlewis » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 7:05 PM UTC

npteljes wrote: post #242

gamedever wrote: post #53

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"uchu" translates closer to "space" (spaceship -> uchusen), (alien -> uchujin), "I want to go to outerspace" -> "uchi e ikitai". You can't sub universe in those. Yes, a dictionary may use that translation, but watch a space documentary and they won't use "uchu" by itself for "universe". Also, in English, "universal" and "universe" are clearly related, but in Japanese, the concept of "universal" has almost nothing in…

The 'Universe' wikipedia page in Japanese is this: "宇宙" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99 "宇宙" seems to be pronounced "Uchū" by google translate. So uchu seems to very much translate to "universe". Maybe it's just not as fashionable to use in a documentary? I can't comment on universe vs universal.

I already pointed this out above. It translates to ‘universe’ as in ‘space’ but not really ‘universe’ in the sense of ‘universal’.

Anyway… this business of translating individual words is basically nonsense.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by NetOpWibby » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 8:09 PM UTC

benrutter wrote: post #213

This seems like a neat idea, importing something simple like a colour pallette to get a small project started with some sane choices. Not sure why the negativity on a project like this.

"HN is a site for professionals and I should've known better to show something that isn't perfect"

Glad you like it!

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by NetOpWibby » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 8:10 PM UTC

qwertox wrote: post #170

ashu1461 wrote: post #149

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

There's also https://oklch.com/#70,0.1258,108,100

My favorite tool, I used it to convert my initial HEX values to OKLCH and tweak.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 8:17 PM UTC

MyOutfitIsVague wrote: post #254

ok_dad wrote: post #221

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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?

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Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by recursive » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 8:38 PM UTC

qingcharles wrote: post #160

recursive wrote: post #63

I had to follow like four links to figure this out. If you just want the CSS variable declarations, the file is here. https://uchu.style/color.css

What's with the raw and then pushing it into the definitions via a var? I don't understand why there is an extra step?

Maybe for editor auto complete?

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by aj7 » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 9:46 PM UTC

ashu1461 wrote: post #148

aj7 wrote: post #65

Can I use this color scheme in Chrome?

I think you still need to import the css file https://github.com/NeverCease/uchu/blob/primary/css/color_ex... after that it should be possible.

What do you do once you have that file?

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by stevage » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 10:40 PM UTC

xanderlewis wrote: post #30

Is there any reason to use the word uchu? It seems like almost everything (colour schemes, AI models, startups, tools, apps, ...) is named using a single randomly-selected Japanese word these days. But... why?

Things need names. All the simple English words have been used many times. Seems logical to me.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by qingcharles » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 10:44 PM UTC

recursive wrote: post #266

qingcharles wrote: post #160

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What's with the raw and then pushing it into the definitions via a var? I don't understand why there is an extra step?

Maybe for editor auto complete?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076068

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by flockonus » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 10:51 PM UTC

NetOpWibby wrote: post #49

flockonus wrote: post #22

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Great webpage name indeed. Have you considered having the about.webb.page not scroll with the column, rather be sticky on top?

Huh, that'd be interesting. I'll try that out. You mean so it'd be persistent/visible with the scroll?

yup, i should have said for all section titles