Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers • Hacker News Board

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by laurieg » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 12:22 AM 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?

Short, pronounceable words are scarce. If you want a 4-6 character project name Japanese words often fit the bill. Japanese culture is also very well exported.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by NetOpWibby » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 12:22 AM UTC

sings wrote: post #34

I suppose there is no hard requirement for consistent saturation between hues, but that seems a bit inconsistent to my tastes. Darker yellow and orange colours seem a little too washed out. Overall I like the total palette though. Especially the avoidance of “red” red, which is a colour I think many designers dislike. I would love to see a study on colour preferences in relation to eye colour. In the same vein, but w…

Thank you! Yellow and orange are tricky, for sure. Thanks for the link, those hues look great.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by TheSmoke » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 12:23 AM UTC

The gray palette would make a good Emacs colorscheme. By the way, great web site! [0]. Been quite a while since I thought that.

[0] https://webb.page

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by bradly » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 12:23 AM UTC

Thank you for sharing. I have a home cooked web-app i use for saving recipes and I've implemented this into it.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by NetOpWibby » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 12:23 AM UTC

threatofrain wrote: post #17

NetOpWibby wrote: post #16

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What would this example page have on it? Do you have a favorite layout?

Maybe an example dashboard or something that is GUI-heavy, to show off how your colors interact with each other?

That sounds like a good idea actually

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by Fnoord » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 12:25 AM UTC

xanderlewis wrote: post #35

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?

Sorry to be negative, but it does seem kind of overdone now. Funnily enough in Japan the same thing happens with seemingly randomly-selected English words, so I suppose it's not completely without precedent.

The Chinese (on e.g. AliExpress) do this, too. With... mixed results. Small typo's, for example. Intentional (NOKlA) or not. Or, case in point: "NICGIGA is a technology enterprise focusing on communication network products. We have a perfect R&D team and Reliability laboratory."

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by theandrewbailey » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 12:31 AM UTC

If you design a webpage that looks like an app loading screen, and have to put the word "SCROLL" at the bottom, I think that's a design failure, for the same/similar reasons that "click here" links are.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by NetOpWibby » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 12:31 AM UTC

Nevermark wrote: post #23

NetOpWibby wrote: post #10

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What kind of UI, just any ol' app?

I think something you really like! You have the experience and obviously love the pallet in your contexts. Perhaps somehow show where you felt you stretched them, or where you really felt good about them. Or just show something quick where you like how the colors compliment. Heck, even a text heavy page that looks punchy on your terms would be great. Right now it feels like (the frequent experience where) I am seeing…

Ah, that makes a lot of sense.

Here's a text-heavy page[1] but it doesn't make use of many colors. My redesigned personal blog should be a proper showcase whenever I get that going.

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[1]: https://blog.neuenet.com/post/vision

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by NetOpWibby » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 12:32 AM UTC

flockonus wrote: post #22

NetOpWibby wrote: post #11

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Thank you! Haha, one of my favorite domains.

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?

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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Post by jsmith99 » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 12:35 AM UTC

Very nice colours. However I am mildly red-green colour blind like 5% of men (and very few women) and the two in the middle look practically the same to me. The left and third from left are almost indistinguishable too. I'm guessing this isn't the case for everybody?