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Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by airstrike »

blago wrote: post #41
adventskalender wrote: post #12

I love the approach, however, the palettes all seem to be in the same style. A bit more diversity would be cool. Any other sites HN could recommend for picking colors? I suck at that. Colourlovers is a classic I know about, but iirc it is complicated with copyright. https://www.colourlovers.com/

https://flatuicolors.com/

This seems closer to a set of colors for the terminal which is great when you're looking for swatches that go together for every color but doesn't help you decide which colors to use in your design

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by airstrike »

_eric wrote: post #16
adventskalender wrote: post #12

I love the approach, however, the palettes all seem to be in the same style. A bit more diversity would be cool. Any other sites HN could recommend for picking colors? I suck at that. Colourlovers is a classic I know about, but iirc it is complicated with copyright. https://www.colourlovers.com/

Lately I have been using color.adobe[0] or palx[1] a lot. [0] https://color.adobe.com [1] https://palx.jxnblk.com

kuler.adobe.com is only similar if you mean the parent should be browsing the community themes, otherwise it's more like a color picker with optional constraints based on color theory (which are great starting points but won't really guide you to the finish line)

the second link has way too many colors to really be useful

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by sombremesa »

DarwinMailApp wrote: post #8

This is incredibly useful for anyone designing a new site from scratch. I think it's quite useful for reimagining the colors of your existing site, too, with one caveat. I'd love to be able to enter some of my own colors - and have your tool suggest a color palette. Not the easiest feature to add, but would be exceptionally useful. Either way, I love what you do, mackenziechild and have followed your work for years.…

> I'd love to be able to enter some of my own colors - and have your tool suggest a color palette.

Not sure whether that's possible with this site, since it was built without code.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by DarwinMailApp »

sombremesa wrote: post #53
DarwinMailApp wrote: post #8

This is incredibly useful for anyone designing a new site from scratch. I think it's quite useful for reimagining the colors of your existing site, too, with one caveat. I'd love to be able to enter some of my own colors - and have your tool suggest a color palette. Not the easiest feature to add, but would be exceptionally useful. Either way, I love what you do, mackenziechild and have followed your work for years.…

> I'd love to be able to enter some of my own colors - and have your tool suggest a color palette. Not sure whether that's possible with this site, since it was built without code.

I don't think it is.

Still an incredibly useful website with a gorgeous design!

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by otterpro »

nathancahill wrote: post #35
pvg wrote: post #20

Show HN is supposed to be for showing your own work https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html so you might have miscategorized this, m1guelpf.

Paging u/mackenziechild https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mackenziechild

Mackenzie Child also did http://www.lolcolors.com/ a while back.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by Daneel_ »

airstrike wrote: post #51
blago wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://flatuicolors.com/

This seems closer to a set of colors for the terminal which is great when you're looking for swatches that go together for every color but doesn't help you decide which colors to use in your design

This is exactly how I use this - I’ve had the UI palette v1 colours as my terminal colours for almost four years and they’re a solid combination.

I use RGB 16,40,64 as the background.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by mackenziechild »

adventskalender wrote: post #12

I love the approach, however, the palettes all seem to be in the same style. A bit more diversity would be cool. Any other sites HN could recommend for picking colors? I suck at that. Colourlovers is a classic I know about, but iirc it is complicated with copyright. https://www.colourlovers.com/

What do you mean by same style? Like alternating backgrounds and such?

I used Webflow CMS to build it, so I was a little bit limited in the amount of colors I could use unless I wanted to upgrade to the business plan lol.

Re: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

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Post by swyx »

adventskalender wrote: post #12

I love the approach, however, the palettes all seem to be in the same style. A bit more diversity would be cool. Any other sites HN could recommend for picking colors? I suck at that. Colourlovers is a classic I know about, but iirc it is complicated with copyright. https://www.colourlovers.com/

i happen to keep a list of these things! under Color Picking https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy
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