Color Hunt – Color Palettes for Designers and Artists | Hacker News Reader

Color Hunt – Color Palettes for Designers and Artists

colorhunt.co

62 pointshamid91419 comments

DO visit quadibloc's color page,

http://www.quadibloc.com/other/colint.htm

It is one of those pages that has been around forever and keeps getting better. I was glad to discover it years ago (it had a grey background then, how old does that make me?) and its intriguing re-organizations of the author's own 240 hue color wheel loosely based on the Munsell system,

http://www.quadibloc.com/other/images/240ccf.gif

that is a mighty fine hue base for a color picker. It embodies the author's human perception of color. For example -- compared to raw RGBspace, the massive area of green is relegated to a smaller area, and the small area of violet is expanded. Also the space between red/yellow is expansive enough that once you branch off these hues into tangents of lightness and saturation, you can pick better flesh tones, more vibrant pastels, and fewer 'muck-yuck' tones such as the ones you get most often when you poke randomly into RGB space.

I used to like these sites, but after doing a bit more design work I've realised they're never enough. You need a bunch of different shades for each colour, a set of neutrals, and set of complimentary colours too (and that's just the colours).

Give me a 30 colour generator then I might be interested

Here's your ticket:

http://www.0to255.com/b4d355

0to255 + whichever Color Palette Website of Choice = A great starting point.

30 may be out of range again, but your point is exactly right.

None of these color palette sites & service ever work for actual interface or brand design work. They encourage picking harmonic sets of 4-5 colors, which is only a secondary parameter when actually designing - you need contrast & workable combinations first and foremost, while you seldomly really want more than two different hues (unless you know what you're doing with them).

I consider offers like this a nice starting point, get an impression of different ranges. But even if I end up picking a set from there, I'll seldom be using all of the suggested colors in a set to build my palette.

I'm not being difficult, but how is this different / better than the other similar sites?

I'm not seeing / feeling anything compelling. Is it because I'm in a small screen device?

I feel comfortable with simplicity and minimality in the interface.

Well as one of the principals, you should ;)

Seriously, why is this upvoted so much? There are dozens, if not hundreds, of color palette sites out there.

Key difference: this one doesn’t work on mobile.

These are the sites I use for colour combinations https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ https://color.review/ https://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/popular.php

I used to use this site: https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes but I see it's become a bit bloated. It used to look more like colorhunt

This would be much more useful with text shown using these as foreground/background colors.

My favorite color hunting ground is the packaging in a good-sized supermarket.

Are the palettes Free? I did not see a license, for instance under About.

I'm no lawyer but I expect this to fall below the threshold of originality[1] or 'Schöpfungshöhe'.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

This is from About page: "Each palette is a public property and not owned by a specific creator, nor by Color Hunt."

The phrase,

"Each [object] is a public property and not owned by a specific creator, nor by [organization]"

is closely derived from my own original intellectual property and I will now proceed to sue Color Hunt for appropriating it.

Really?! Is it possible for you to provide any reference?

Thank you, I missed it

Reply on news.ycombinator.com