Show HN: A color picker I made without fiddly sliders

Backstory:

I woke up this morning and saw the color pickers in http://www.uibox.in/ and started thinking about whether I could make a color picker that didn't require me to pick a color in multiple steps.

With a little bit of fiddling I came up with this. I'm sure someone with a graphic design degree will tell me some Swiss person much smarter than me invented this 50 years ago, but that's life. Instead of picking a hue and then picking a saturation/brightness you just pick the color you want.

This is not the color picker for everyone:

* It's not very fine-grained

* There's no pure white or pure black (you shouldn't need/use these anyway)

* Actually all of the really dark/really light/really unsaturated parts of the spectrum are removed because they all sort of looked the same.

* It forgets your palette when you reload the page

But it's fast, doesn't require you to grab any 4 pixel wide sliders, and it prevents you from thinking too hard. Might be useful for someone else, so I thought I'd post it.

I think it'd be a good basis for a color-picker for end users: it covers most of the useful colors without overwhelming people with complexity.

My Style Adjuster chrome extension uses sliders to change colors, but what makes it good is that it changes the color of a CSS property value in the page, as you slide the slider, while looking at the thing that the color applies to. (It does dimensional values also.)

Sliding is better than clicking, because you can't click on something without actually looking at it. But once you've started sliding a slider, you can continue to slide it without looking at the slider.

After I create my palette, I want to be able to copy the #NNNNNN for each color without resorting to trickery.