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Show HN: Colorffy – 3-colors gradients generator

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51 pointsgiancarlosgza29 comments

Is there any particular reason why there is a generate button? I'd prefer it to be generated automatically as I change the values.

Hi, the button its there, because i dont know yet, how to do generated automatically. But its a good feedback, thanks

Is there something special going on here (e.g. to "normalize" the gradient), or is it just an element with the linear-gradient CSS style applied it to it?

Looks to be the latter.

It's just the element with the linear-gradient CSS style

another option with more customization https://mycolor.space/gradient3

This one produces much nicer result [1] - try green to red gradient [2]

[1] https://mycolor.space/gradient?ori=to+right&hex=%2300FF00&he...

[2] https://youtu.be/LKnqECcg6Gw?t=148

It almost looks like "colorffy" is a clone of this.

Hi, and not is a clone of that page, I just want to create a simpler color gradient generator for designers or front end developers

Its funny how gradients were cool in the 90's. Then became uncool and now they're cool again. Now everything is full of gradients - Stripe, Open AI, Apple's new iPhone promotions/wallpapers come to my mind.

I have a question - why are graphic designers all about trends? Whether it is brutalist design or back in 2010 it was all this material UI and flat design. Gradients are popular right now and everyone is jumping on it. In my view today's web designers are decorators than actually understanding the purpose and utility of design. You can't produce timeless design when simultaneously you're chasing trends.

I’ve had a long unanswered question that I think about a lot: does design (fashion, architecture, app UI/UX) evolve or does it just change? Are the fashions we are wearing today better or simply different from 30 years ago? The fact that retro is cool seems to point to it being just different, versus better.

But I’m not really sure. A lot of architects almost have a morality about their designs: that a building shouldn’t cover up structural columns or engineering structures. That beauty is honesty, and adding extraneous stuff in the name of design isn’t honest, and in fact, immoral.

This is certainly different from the design of buildings 200 or 300 years ago, which often were excessive and baroque.

But it’s hard to say one is better than the other.

If you want to sell whatever you have, despite function, would you rather purchase something that "looks old" or something that "looks new"? I suspect most people would go with the latter. Since "looks new" sells, people will design it in that matter.

Note that "looks new" and "looks old" are relative terms to the last design. That's why they're trends and cycle back and forth.

This could be useful for generating cyclic color maps [0], of which there is a dearth in matplotlib. Cyclic color maps are great for coloring angles where one wants 2π periodicity.

[0] https://matplotlib.org/gallery/color/colormap_reference.html

How about you embiggen it to include polar on 1 unit circle and 3 points in 1x1x1 square (Pro version has more detail). Maybe even include shading and luminescence.

Was expecting some dithering algorithms from the post title.

I´m so sorry, for your expectings :/

Super cool but make it generate on selection or at least make it so the color picker doesn't cover the submit button after picking the color.

Oh, I'm gonna check this, thank you for your feedback!

RGB values would be handy, eg. "rgb(200, 120, 20)"

Thanks,I will consider it

Why is this here

Cuz I just want some feedback of my side-project

hello there!

Hey you're the creator! Welcome to HN. Normal rules are that posts have to say something, so 'hi' gets downmodded, but I think most of us didn't realise you were the person that made this.

Oh hi! This is my first post, so i don't know so well something

How did this get 35 upvotes?

Anyway, does the color interpolation take into account the fact that RGB values use gamma coding?

Front end developers and graphic designers.

Yes, this website is for them

Because I want some feedback, man

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