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Colors.lol (2020)

colors.lol

122 pointsadamfuhrer21 comments

On the topic of choosing colours, I recently discovered this article which cleared up a lot of misconceptions for me and made things much easier:

https://www.refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-p...

Thanks for the link. This is definitely helpful as someone who is not a designer, but disappointed that it didn't go in more depth about how you _could_ use a color palette in UI color schemes.

That is an incredibly helpful resource, thanks.

to go with that article, the best advice for picking different shades of the same hue is to work in HSL color space rather than trying to use RGB. You'll sit there all day trying and failing to find colors that match in RGB.

Incredibly useful article. Thank you.

The contrived example intentionally picks the worst colors for every element. Yellow for the background, really? Who is the author trying to fool? The generated five-color palette works absolutely fine. You just gotta use it right.

I made a small tool [1] trying to replicate this article using neural networks.

[1] tailwind.ink

I don't know what I'm looking at or why and I think these combos are incredibly loud. But I love them. I'm not good at anything related to aesthetics. I still dress like a "unsponsored skater" (ref: New Girl) so I'm hardly worth listening too but I really like these. I hardly bookmark anything on my phone but I'm keeping this.

Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719288 - March 2020 (51 comments)

I went to buy a used fridge, and the salesman offered me one in "tooth yellow", and another in "puke green".

Good thing there were no brown fridges.. I felt the descriptions disconcertingly accurate.

Unfortunately for whatever reason, i never quite figured out how to read/use a 5 color palette? Is it like on background, one foreground, one to highlight, one for the other highlight?

Meh. Most of these descriptions just seem like "lol random" low effort procedurally generated parody rather than something delightfully surprisingly precise

This is awesome. I've been looking for color palette generating sites for a while, and this one is pretty good.

"overly descriptive" as in "attach a random adjective" to each colour:

- "undiagnosed light indigo".

- "sporocystic deep pink", where sporocyst means a resting cell that produces asexual plant spores.

- "biparous orangish", where biparous means birthing two young at a time.

I have seen so many palettes and color programs online, but this is so nice. I am loving it.

I couldn't get out of that website by hitting the browser back button... :/

Which browser? Working fine for me in Firefox 97.0.1.

I think the random link at the footer does a redirect to the random pallete so hitting the back button keeps you in the loop

PR submitted to fix this issue :)

https://github.com/adamfuhrer/colors.lol/pull/23

my collection of palette generators of every stripe here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#pal...

I love it!

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