I have an acquaintance who is a professional artist[1]. He has some great stories about colours/paints/pigments. I suppose it's akin to tales of who created a particular programming tool/compiler, or when a language weirdly added gotos (PHP!). It's great to hear experts opine on their craft. Not sure we have that here, but still.
Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors
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Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Who cares? I care. So do they.
Sounds like gatekeeping to me. They have an interesting idea and story and probably aren't web devs. But you write it off because the design (the least important point of telling the story) doesn't match your sweaty purity test. If anything, these vibe coded projects are the new plain HTML or Angelfire sites that a lot of people here seem to pine for. No one is getting off of your lawn anytime soon. Whining about it…
If they don’t care about the style, they could’ve just made a plain unstyled website instead of pretentious slop.
Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors
#53> Most of what you can read about historical color on the web has been rewritten three or four times from the same Wikipedia paragraph, with the citations dropped along the way. What you are reading here is an attempt to put the citations back. That implies the entries also are based on the Wikipedia paragraph, though I think the author means they do their own research. The entries I looked at list several high-quali…
> Known generative-AI crawlers are disallowed in robots.txt. This is a research catalogue assembled from primary sources; it is not training data, and a model fine-tuned on these paragraphs would launder out exactly the part — the citations — that gives the prose its value. This reads like distaste for LLMs - but generally website reads (and is designed as!) very LLMy.
Do AI crawlers actually follow robots.txt rules? They didn't care about rules when they trained them on copyrighted works so why would they follow the rules here?
Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Who cares? I care. So do they.
Sounds like gatekeeping to me. They have an interesting idea and story and probably aren't web devs. But you write it off because the design (the least important point of telling the story) doesn't match your sweaty purity test. If anything, these vibe coded projects are the new plain HTML or Angelfire sites that a lot of people here seem to pine for. No one is getting off of your lawn anytime soon. Whining about it…
Some gates need kept.
Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors
#55Cool idea, but unfortunately low-effort AI slop. The colors are covered in vibe-coded patterns that obscure the actual color, much of the writing is wrong and soulless. The prompter writes on the site that he uses AI to support in writing, because as a man with a day job it would be "impossible" to write all this himself. I'd urge him to write in his own words, starting with a minimal subset of colors and slowly buil…
I was excited about the website up until I clicked into my first color and read the page. Terrible slop writing. Makes me question the author's judgement in general.
Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors
#56That's pretty cool. In a similar but very different vein: A few years ago I took twenty years of daily satellite imagery and computed the mean color for countries and the world https://www.landshade.com/ But in doing that you really do notice how everything concerning colors is just a bit arbitrary. You get raw reflectances from a scientific sensor on a satellite with specific spectral bands and sensitivity within th…
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Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Who cares? I care. So do they.
Sounds like gatekeeping to me. They have an interesting idea and story and probably aren't web devs. But you write it off because the design (the least important point of telling the story) doesn't match your sweaty purity test. If anything, these vibe coded projects are the new plain HTML or Angelfire sites that a lot of people here seem to pine for. No one is getting off of your lawn anytime soon. Whining about it…
If they have an idea, they can write it themselves, not use an AI to write it for them.
Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors
#58I wanted to check if the information on this page was correct. I started searching and found this site [0], which looks very similar. I thought it was made by the same person, but it's not. It's just another website designed using LLM. One advantage of LLM is that you can quickly and easily generate a "pretty decent" website. However, there is a drawback, that there is a high chance that a page with a very similar de…
I don't think it is a case that llm happens to create similar stuff. Either both are made by the same person or one is a copycat of the other.
What are the odds of both websites showing the same color today (Cochineal and 胭脂)?
And both use Roman numerals MMXXVI ? It makes no sense to use that in a "Chinese" color website.
Re: Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors
#59I wanted to check if the information on this page was correct. I started searching and found this site [0], which looks very similar. I thought it was made by the same person, but it's not. It's just another website designed using LLM. One advantage of LLM is that you can quickly and easily generate a "pretty decent" website. However, there is a drawback, that there is a high chance that a page with a very similar de…
I don't think it is a case that llm happens to create similar stuff. Either both are made by the same person or one is a copycat of the other. What are the odds of both websites showing the same color today (Cochineal and 胭脂)? And both use Roman numerals MMXXVI ? It makes no sense to use that in a "Chinese" color website.
I think they are made by different people/organizations. Chinese colors is by TOTM Tech, which sells various (pretty obviously vibe coded) design tools and assets. OP doesn't sell anything so I don't think they are related.
> MMXXVI
That too. LLMs love to writing year in roman numeral. https://github.com/search?q=%22%C2%B7+MMXXVI%22&type=code There are 2.8k of these in github.
> the same color today
Looks liks Chinese colors always show that color in Hero section? It's coincidence I think.