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Sorry for my lack of culture, what is a Swiss-Style Color Picker? noise + 3 random colors shaped as a building? Closest thing I found is http://www.smashingmag

by ludbb 11y ago

Sorry for my lack of culture, what is a Swiss-Style Color Picker? noise + 3 random colors shaped as a building? Closest thing I found is http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/lessons-from-swiss-style-graphic-design/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/lessons-from-swiss-s... which includes a link to https://www.flickr.com/photos/20745656@N00/3053656134/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/20745656@N00/3053656134/ and looks similar to this.

Keyframe 11y ago
Yeah, I don't get it either. However, there's more info on creator's website: http://www.fabianburghardt.de/swisscolors.html http://www.fabianburghardt.de/swisscolors.html It's still not clear if it's any different from Bauhaus. I was expecting Itten's Farbkreis or something. edit:spelling
matchu 11y ago
Seems like it's trying to generate a bunch of aesthetically-pleasing 4-color palettes, and present them in a helpful way. I suspect that the building shape is engineered to create a border between each pair of colors. (The standard alternative would be, say, 4 vertical bars, which only shows you how 3 of the color pairs look against each other.) The noise might be working under the assumption that you're going to apply noise to the colors when you use them, too.
Paulods 11y ago
You can turn the noise off from the top right menu.
SeoxyS 11y ago
Swiss-Style has nothing to do "being in the style of Switzerland." Rather, it refers to the "Swiss Style" aka "International Typographic Style," a school of graphic design. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Typographic_Style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Typographic_Styl...
rangibaby 11y ago
They are color palettes based on Swiss design that originated in the 1950s, and a big influence on the look of flat design now. Not so much the function; Swiss design (international typographic style) placed an emphasis on removing visual embellishments to make design an effective tool of communication. The minimalism and simplicity were a means to an end, not an end in itself. Here is a fun example of the bright colors preferred by these designers: http://fontsinuse.com/uses/3254/principles-of-wanner-gruppe http://fontsinuse.com/uses/3254/principles-of-wanner-gruppe Traffic safety posters (!): http://fontsinuse.com/uses/4263/campaign-posters-for-the-swiss-automobile-clu http://fontsinuse.com/uses/4263/campaign-posters-for-the-swi...
- copsarebastards 11y ago
  I'm not questioning what you're saying, as it seems to be correct based on what I know (I may or may not have watched the Helvetica documentary) but what's with the graininess in the color picker? It doesn't fit with anything else I'm looking at on this topic.
  - rangibaby 11y ago
    My guess is to simulate how the colors will look on paper, they always look like they "pop" (god I hate that word lol) on a screen more than when printed out. You can turn it off by clicking "noise" at the top right.
    - copsarebastards 11y ago
      Interesting. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. The Swiss style seems to have influenced the covers of a lot of old sci-fi books, so I mentally associate these kinds of color schemes with faded old paper and sitting indoors on a rainy afternoon.
- ludbb 11y ago
  Hey, thank you! So, if I'm understanding this a Swiss-Style <T> is a T that is simple and effective. Your reply starts by mentioning color palettes based on Swiss design, but is that the case here? It seems colors individually are not part of ITS, but how they are used (and therefore all colors can be used on it, as long as properties of this design philosophy are observed).

by ludbb 11y ago

Keyframe 11y ago

Yeah, I don't get it either. However, there's more info on creator's website: http://www.fabianburghardt.de/swisscolors.html http://www.fabianburghardt.de/swisscolors.html It's still not clear if it's any different from Bauhaus. I was expecting Itten's Farbkreis or something. edit:spelling

matchu 11y ago

Seems like it's trying to generate a bunch of aesthetically-pleasing 4-color palettes, and present them in a helpful way. I suspect that the building shape is engineered to create a border between each pair of colors. (The standard alternative would be, say, 4 vertical bars, which only shows you how 3 of the color pairs look against each other.) The noise might be working under the assumption that you're going to apply noise to the colors when you use them, too.

Paulods 11y ago

You can turn the noise off from the top right menu.

SeoxyS 11y ago

Swiss-Style has nothing to do "being in the style of Switzerland." Rather, it refers to the "Swiss Style" aka "International Typographic Style," a school of graphic design. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Typographic_Style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Typographic_Styl...

rangibaby 11y ago

They are color palettes based on Swiss design that originated in the 1950s, and a big influence on the look of flat design now. Not so much the function; Swiss design (international typographic style) placed an emphasis on removing visual embellishments to make design an effective tool of communication. The minimalism and simplicity were a means to an end, not an end in itself. Here is a fun example of the bright colors preferred by these designers: http://fontsinuse.com/uses/3254/principles-of-wanner-gruppe http://fontsinuse.com/uses/3254/principles-of-wanner-gruppe Traffic safety posters (!): http://fontsinuse.com/uses/4263/campaign-posters-for-the-swiss-automobile-clu http://fontsinuse.com/uses/4263/campaign-posters-for-the-swi...

copsarebastards 11y ago
I'm not questioning what you're saying, as it seems to be correct based on what I know (I may or may not have watched the Helvetica documentary) but what's with the graininess in the color picker? It doesn't fit with anything else I'm looking at on this topic.
- rangibaby 11y ago
  My guess is to simulate how the colors will look on paper, they always look like they "pop" (god I hate that word lol) on a screen more than when printed out. You can turn it off by clicking "noise" at the top right.
  - copsarebastards 11y ago
    Interesting. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. The Swiss style seems to have influenced the covers of a lot of old sci-fi books, so I mentally associate these kinds of color schemes with faded old paper and sitting indoors on a rainy afternoon.
ludbb 11y ago
Hey, thank you! So, if I'm understanding this a Swiss-Style <T> is a T that is simple and effective. Your reply starts by mentioning color palettes based on Swiss design, but is that the case here? It seems colors individually are not part of ITS, but how they are used (and therefore all colors can be used on it, as long as properties of this design philosophy are observed).