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Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations
- sddfd 9y agoWhat's the license?
- feikname 9y agoI'd expect it to be either public domain or uncopyrightable. Hopefully that's the case.
- jackvalentine 9y agoI recently built an internal tool at work, and in an attempt to make things very readable used the EGA colour palette. It isn't pretty, but everything is obvious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Graphics_Adapter#Color_palette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Graphics_Adapter#Colo...
- djsumdog 9y agoWow, that's actually a really great idea. Takes you back to the days of simple 16 colors. It could even have that vintage Google UI look to it.
- amelius 9y agoIs the idea behind this that a UI uses different colors based on geolocation?
- GuiA 9y agoIt looks like they use the flag colors to seed the palette.
- git-pull 9y agoThis is fantastic. What's going on with Adobe Kuler aka Adobe Color CC? Looks like they made it easier to grab the colors recently: https://color.adobe.com/explore/?filter=most-popular&time=month https://color.adobe.com/explore/?filter=most-popular&time=mo... It works easiest when you mouseover and click "Edit Copy" (second button) Anyone remember Color Scheme Studio? https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15962/color-schemer-studio https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15962/color-schemer-studio What happened to them? I can't find an official website. I could imagine people still wanting to buy their software today.
- eropple 9y agoKuler's pretty awesome still. I also use Paletton: http://paletton.com http://paletton.com
- eropple 9y agoI really dig a couple of those palettes, but that website might be the most infuriating thing I have seen in a while. Unnecessary slide transitions. Product Hunt begging. Interrupting the back button (edit: or maybe interrupting a slide to a palette? I don't know, both are bad) with a beg for me to sign up for their newsletter. An interstitial added after they already interrupted me with an email beg--this one, a tweet-this beg. Just...none of this is good. Stop. You came up with really nice, really neat color palettes. But now you made me think you're jerks. Stooooop.
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- seba_dos1 9y agoThe newsletter is actually triggered by heading to close button detection (there are scripts that detect fast movement towards the top of the page and display "wait a moment" popups), which I agree is one of the worst things that happen to the Web these days. And that fancy transition (which I wouldn't mind actually) is even broken on Firefox - it ends sliding both in and out, and only then the page actually switches.
- newscracker 9y agoI opened it on Firefox Focus on iOS, and I just see a heading about 280 colors and a list of other products below. Looks like the main content has been blocked by the ad/script filters in the browser.
- Falkon1313 9y agoUsing NoScript or turning off javascript fixes all the problems on that site. Although then it's just a blank white page without even so much as noscript text.
- eropple 9y agoNoScript creates problems, too. I have no problems with the use of JavaScript. I have a problem with tasteless dickery.
- ollerac 9y agoA worthy alternative: https://yeun.github.io/open-color/ https://yeun.github.io/open-color/
- Bjorkbat 9y agoI'm genuinely curious, what's the methodology behind categorizing palettes by country? Just for fun? Or is there something more interesting here. I'm from the states, but I think I might like that Dutch palette more.
- afrnld 9y agoI was thinking the same thing
- joshfarrant 9y agoAFAIK The palettes are categorised by the nationality of the designer.
- solarkraft 9y agoPeople from different cultural circles may have a different perception of some colors. This is probably the easiest to group by country.
- ahmetsulek 9y agoHello there, maker of Flat UI Colors here. I made collaboration with 13 designers from 13 different countries and palette names are given based on designer's country. The colors are not related with the country name or flag they are designer's own picks.
- woliveirajr 9y agoThe country thing isn't just and simple because people from those countries submitted suggestions? And it even asks about more suggestions, and will priorize suggestions from countries that aren't there already. > https://medium.com/collect-ui-design-ui-ux-inspiration-blog/flat-ui-colors-2-13-countries-13-designers-13-color-palettes-more-1d0ecdd66301 https://medium.com/collect-ui-design-ui-ux-inspiration-blog/...
- bhj 9y agoRelated: http://colormind.io http://colormind.io ("The AI powered color palette generator" - the image upload option is pretty nifty) http://khroma.co/train/ http://khroma.co/train/ ("The AI color tool for designers")
- ehnto 9y agoAI? Wouldn't they just automate regular colour theory?
- TeMPOraL 9y agoRemember that most of the time, "AI" is a codeword for linear regression.
- kqr 9y agoTwo sides to this coin as well: I'm baffled that what was previously called linear algebra is now called "AI", but it has also emphasised to me how much I need to get better at linear algebra...
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI came to the same conclusion, and actually picked up a stats book recently. The hype might be unbearable at times, but the underlying knowledge is also very valuable.
- Jack000 9y ago(I made colormind.io) Color theory isn't an exact science, you could make random palettes from various color rules but they don't look good (imo). as an experiment, try this: go on https://color.adobe.com https://color.adobe.com and click on one of the color rules (it will give you a random palette based on the rule) now compare with a palette from https://coolors.co/ https://coolors.co/ or https://color.adobe.com/explore/ https://color.adobe.com/explore/ (user-uploaded) if color theory + regression fully solved this problem, none of these color sites would need to exist.
- dbranes 9y agoGenuinely curious, as a non-designer, I don't understand what this offers over existing palettes websites [1]. Anyone care to enlighten? [1] e.g. http://www.colourlovers.com/ http://www.colourlovers.com/, http://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/ http://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/
- mindslight 9y agoPresumably the colors have been purposely picked to have really bad contrast, look identical to colorblind users, or create some other sort of usability difficulty.
- djsumdog 9y agoI still use https://coolors.co https://coolors.co. The thing is no one ever uses one of these pallets. You start off with one maybe as a base and then adjust everything to get stuff just right. The Coolors UI seems to be good at that.
- nkristoffersen 9y agoI love coolors. Just hit space bar to cycle. Once I see a color I like, I just lock that color and continue hitting space bar and locking colors till I have a full pallet :-)
- kqr 9y agoThis was very neat. What I'm about to say should not detract from that – this is probably one of the better palette tools I have used, if not the best. But why on Earth would you want a user account and cloud storage for 15 bytes of colour values?
- eurticket 9y agoI think it's obvious that it doesn't offer anything different besides that it's another option than those sites. CL for example has palletes that aren't as easily copied and for the most part are used a lot inside their own system.
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- matte_black 9y agoWhat’s next after this Flat UI trend? Textual UI?
- amacbride 9y agoI'm hoping that the next generation of designers mocks it as dated and embarrassing and embraces something ultra-baroque just to spite them. It will be hilarious.
- odammit 9y agoWhat’s the association with countries? Is it just where designer is from?
- lwhi 9y agoI'd don't get it .. why are these palettes worth using above others? I'm not trying to be controversial .. I'm confused.
- entropie 9y agoAnd that audio that is played when you select one... i dont get it.
- Kiro 9y agoYou are questioning the UX while lwhi is questioning the utility of these palettes. To answer your question anyway: it's fun.
- coldtea 9y agoBecause they are the result of "Collaborating with 13 designers around the world" -- so, assuming they're competent in their jobs (which they look to be, judging from their individual profiles you get when you click on a palette), would be better than what some random dev will come up with. Note that nobody says those are worth using "above others" (much less "above all others"). Just that those are well put together palette suggestions by professional designers. (And I'm sure they used color theory in their selections, judging from 2-3 palettes I've examined).
- wruza 9y agoHonestly, if I was presented something like that site I would ask if they cheaply treat me as a kid. Colored flatness went too far, imo. Where is good old design, guys?
- coldtea 9y agoGood old design work has embraced flatness for ages -- literally, you can find flat design throughout the 20th century. It's also considered the more elegant by several design schools. There's nothing about gradients, bezels, and such that makes them more "mature". If anything, it's the opposite (as flat can do away with often superfluous decorative stuff).
- chynkm 9y agoGood work. Perhaps https://www.colorion.co/ https://www.colorion.co/ is a better option
- karmakaze 9y agoWhat I'd like to see are each of the palettes used in context, e.g. as text color on white/black background or as a background highlight for black/white text. It's rare that I need an entire palette of colors outside this context.