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Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity

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Based on the title, I imagined crawling all websites and counting how many pixels used each colour.

my thoughts too. while this page is interesting, I'd be much more interested to know the results of what you describe

it would be fairly easily to implement, although probably quite expensive in either cost or time

Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity

#44

Voting on all 16 million is a cool concept, but given that this is probably going to be popular for only a day or so, probably not achievable. From your own ranks, only 0.27% of colours have been voted on at all, and most likely the majority of those voted on have a single vote.

Personally I think that's okay. I also think it might make sense for any summary to lump colors together using clustering and averaging the group using a colorspace like Oklab. There's lots of room for different types of analyses here!

That's a super cool idea! You could have it adapt so that depending on the number of votes the clusters get smaller so it returns the most specific data it can.

Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity

#47

This is a perfect example of why we need ranked choice voting. I think #BD60E2 is best, but due to its unpopularity I'm forced to vote #BD60E1 if I want my vote to matter.

What would be a suitable algorithm?

Re: Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity

#49
The hex codes cannot be selected/copied out which was disappointing, but perhaps worse is that the hex codes slowly fade away completely!

I only noticed the first time because there was a gorgeous gold/purple combination that I wanted to save, which makes me think there might be another layer of combination that can be saved which is worst/best combinations of colour.

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