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Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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This is fantastic, and gets a lot of little things right. Just piling on at this point, but you can never have too many compliments. I really like the little added touches like keyboard navigation and the quick, bouncy animations. Makes it feel really friendly. Super cool! I'm bookmarking this.

In the future would there be a way to enter a hex code and have the system work off that? That's the only thing it's missing (for me).

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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post #14

I have to say I like this - great design, easy to operate, etc. I think something needs to be done to better indicate "other wheel selections" (ie - to move to "square" or "analogous", etc) - while I discovered it fairly quickly, it wasn't as intuitive as I think it could have been. Beyond that it's a great tool, and the pricing for the more advanced version is decent. That said, it wouldn't take much for someone to…

There are other picker tools that are similar to mine and each of us has a unique take on the problem. It doesn’t worry me. If someone wants to make their own version that’s cool. Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, I didn't realize this too until I read the first comment.

I would have put the arrows down where "complementary" and "analogous" and made them more visible rather than elongated and thin.

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

#57
post #2

This looks awesome! Congrats on launching it. First: Don't get bogged down by random HN commenters' feature requests. Second: I have a feature request. I'd love a native version for Mac OS with a magnifying glass thing that allows me to select a color somewhere else on my screen, and then suggest complimentary colors. I'd gladly pay for that!

Try https://sipapp.io/

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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post #2

This looks awesome! Congrats on launching it. First: Don't get bogged down by random HN commenters' feature requests. Second: I have a feature request. I'd love a native version for Mac OS with a magnifying glass thing that allows me to select a color somewhere else on my screen, and then suggest complimentary colors. I'd gladly pay for that!

I keep contrast (usecontrast.com) open as a picker and accessibility testing tool, but I agree, adding recommendations based on color theory, etc would make it even more usable. It has a few hotkeys that work well and is minimal enough to make the startup list.

Re: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

#60
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you'll accept the step of copying the values into the tool that figures out the complementary colors for you, macOS comes with Digital Color Meter, which will tell you the color of anything on your screen.

(It’s hiding in the Utilities folder if you can’t see it in Applications.)

Create a shortcut for it.

I have it set to CMD + Shift + C. Great to have it easily accessible

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