5 ms·
Show HN: Colors – A data-driven collection of beautiful color palettes
- tw1010 9y agoWhat do you mean by "data-driven"? What algorithm are you using to produce the palettes?
- drikerf 9y agoHi! It's data-driven in the sense that colors are not picked by hand but rather extracted from curated designs on Pixels (klart.co/pixels) :).
- videocortex 9y agoLove Colors and Color Science? Come support a dedicated Color Science community StackExchange Q&A site: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/110687/color-science?referrer=JmGHDk1JmPnR7e_6vfPwHQ2 https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/110687/color-scie...
- aw3c2 9y agoThat's way too specific.
- nerdponx 9y agoAgreed. Why isn't a "color science" tag on the graphic design Q&A site enough?
- Theodores 9y agoNo. This is a very different audience wanting to do things with colour, e.g. maths. The graphic design site does not have the right moderators and audience for it. I do interesting things with colour from time to time and find myself in the realms of no documentation and no sensible answers from Stack Overflow. I don't care what code an algorithm is in, or if it was written by Ancient Greeks, what I want is a community that knows stuff about colour spaces, identifying colours in complex images, making palettes from data and so on. The 'graphic design' community isn't about that, for starters there is an expectation to be using applications rather than code for working with images.
- crodrigues 9y agoNice! Though it seems a lot like http://coolors.co http://coolors.co, any differentiating aspects?
- drikerf 9y agoCoolors looks nice :). I generate all palettes automatically from my design curation Pixels (klart.co/pixels). I want it to be really simple to find color inspiration so you can just go to the site and press space to shuffle until you find something you like :).
- crsv 9y agoBig fan of coolers.co, really useful tool.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoI don’t know if your data model (or general hypothesis) is working. There are some truly garish color combinations (too many to be a fluke) on the site, so I’m thinking some colors work better as part of a work rather than as a stand-alone palette
- drikerf 9y agoYes, some are pretty funky :). Gradients, photographs etc can be one reason. Still I think some are pretty nice :).
- tw1010 9y agoI don't know how you're doing the palette extraction right now, but if want something to experiment with I'd suggest you take a look at using k-means clustering. In other words see the set of pixels as points in a 3D space (where the axes are red, green and blue) and then perform k-means clustering on the points. You could then extract the palette from the centroids. If k-means doesn't give satisfactory results, try spectral clustering.
- drikerf 9y agoSounds cool, thanks :)! I'll look into some more methods soon!
- nerdponx 9y agoAs a research result, this is still an interesting outcome. Nobody has done this before, to my knowledge.
- jwdunne 9y agoGerman tricolour flags are prominent here (current and German Empire). I think that's an interesting result. There may be more national flags, I was looking for something similar to the Spanish flag, but my knowledge isn't that great there.
- Mjuse_sgeggw 9y agohttps://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/communitystart?communityUuid=0ce34f5f-80c5-4fdf-b542-c7fd9c6fa05e&ftHelpTip=true https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/...
- tomek_zemla 9y agoThis link might be useful for comparison: http://colormind.io http://colormind.io
- thomastjeffery 9y agoIs there a way to pattern match against a set of requirements, like relative contrast or color difference?
- drikerf 9y agoNot yet. Might be something I'll implement. Thanks :)!