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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/

A simple approach I love is just to choose a simple color scheme like Open Colors (https://yeun.github.io/open-color/) and just use colors from there.

There's also this great article: https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palet...

both of these links are excellent. i love that open color has sass and i can just use the variables in bootstrap. thank you.

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

Here is mine if you want to add it !

I like https://coolors.co/ for quickly cycling though options and being able lock certain colors.

That one has an egregious ad floating on top of the palette on mobile and the controls UI is all borked

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.

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.

All pastels

I don't know how to describe it, sorry. Like as if they are all printed on recycling paper, perhaps? They have a touch of grayness? Or perhaps it is "all pastels", as the other comment said? Sorry I am not artist enough to be able to describe it.

Ah gotcha. Yeah there is definitely a lot of pastel palettes on there. I guess that's what I lean towards. I'll try to add more, non pastel palettes soon :)

I made one that gives 12 palettes for any base color: http://strapless.io/

I like https://www.colorsandfonts.com/. It has a lot of color options such as gradients, contrasts, pallets, and has font pairings too.

For maps:

- [ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps](http://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3)

https://encycolorpedia.com/

I quite like http://colormind.io/

https://colorsupplyyy.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

I like the limited choices - it's much less overwhelming, and it's nice to have an opinionated curation.

https://www.colorbox.io/

What about their copyright? Can a palette actually be copyrighted?

Iirc at least they claim copyright - whether it would actually be valid I don't know.

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