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ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
I love the website about color pigment history - it explains a lot about some of the color choices artists made in different time periods. Thank you for sharing the link.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Great points! 1. I'll try to add RYB option for color harmony wheel 2. You are absolutely correct, there are no consistent palettes across genres, but I thought it will be interesting to see multitude of palettes artists use for the same genre 3. User S0und's observation about oxidized or decayed colors is very interesting, but even with muted, brownish colors these artworks still look amazing. 4. Any suggestion how can I add such color visualization across body of work of a given artist or a style?
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Thank you for kind words! The loading next palette feature is fixed also. You can check it whenever you have free time.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Actually I group artworks based on artist/ganre/style similar color palette and showcase up to 3 images from that group.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
I still need to access and download such copyrighted images in order to derive palette colors and showcase sample images for those palettes.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
The intention of this site is to showcase time tested palettes (with empirical evidence) of greatest visual artists instead of listing endless sea of neon bright color palettes we see everywhere in popular palette sites like coolors or colorhunt. Consider it using like a color grading tool for you art/design project similar to cinematographers who use contain color combinations to bring emotions, mood to the movie shots to tell the story in more visually captivating fashion.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Most contemporary artists works are still under copyrght laws.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Both issues are fixed now. Yes "Modernism" and "Modernismo" are the same, only some Latin American artists have art style as Modernismo instead just Modernism.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
I fixed it. Thank you for helping to correct such an obvious error!
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
As you suggested OKLCH colour option is added now to the site. Thanks again.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
I fix it. hope the new version provides better user experience
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Great observation. Thank you for pointing to an obvious error. I will fix it as soon as possible. it is not acceptable to order artists by their first name.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Thank you for your kind words!
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
coming soon
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
I would like to know that formula also. this can be an interesting tool to reveal true colors of paintings as the painters intended...
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
You are absolutely right, I did not realize how similar some of these palettes are to Commodore 64 palette

see this palette for example: https://paletteinspiration.com/fauvism-palettes/fauvism-19-p...

or other Fauvism palettes: https://paletteinspiration.com/fauvism-palettes/

ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Great suggestion, thank you! I'll try reaching out to some art schools to see if they'd find the site useful.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
It is puzzling for me why you see these colors as Claude UI colors, since I carefully choose these colors as my main brand colors across all other art related sites (eg https://ouliart.com).
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
I am planning to add a section where people can re-color their portraits, landscape images or even interior rooms using carefully curated palettes based on master painters palettes. Applying to websites, illustrations or charts also can be extremely useful.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Adding visual clues for automatic scrolling is something I really need to rethink in order to make this feature work as intended. Thank you for the hint!
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Adding OKLCH color codes will be a great addition. Thank you for your suggestion!

There are 2 art style pages namely Advertising and Posters styles: https://paletteinspiration.com/advertisement-palettes/ https://paletteinspiration.com/poster-palettes/

I am aware that Advertisement palettes mostly based on Alphonse Mucha work since I could not include more recent ad illustrations for copywrite reasons.

ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
This is a very interesting perspective. I'd thought the muted, brownish colors in these paintings had to do with the quality and availability of pigments during that period.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Sorry for the inconvenience. The email works now. Regarding the article - I use similar ideas to extract colors form artwork images, only difference is I added color prevalence scale for each color and limited it to 10 colors per palette.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Thank you for the kind words and insightful feedback. My intention with page-switching on scroll was to offer more color palettes without requiring extra clicks. I had some reservations about it too, but couldn't find a better way to provide a continuous feed of similar palettes. I'll work on improving that feature.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Thank you for kind words! That was my exact intention to share empirically proven color palettes for artists and designers like you. Adding API endpoint is a great idea. I'll let you know when it will be ready.
ouli··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Thank you. Glad you find it interesting.