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The artist in me agrees with a lot of what he says but I do feel it necessary to point out that in many applications there are other considerations than colour
by KineticLensman 8y ago
The artist in me agrees with a lot of what he says but I do feel it necessary to point out that in many applications there are other considerations than colour harmony. Specifically accessibility for the large proportions of the population who have some form of colour blindness and the need to develop clearly distinguished palettes for information presentation (as opposed to art). My go-to resource for non-artistic palette development is [0]
[0] https://blog.graphiq.com/finding-the-right-color-palettes-for-data-visualizations-fcd4e707a283 https://blog.graphiq.com/finding-the-right-color-palettes-fo...
- Kagerjay 8y agoThis is a good resource, I have seen this authors articles before on forums before too Personally, what I have been doing with color choice selection is just use HSL format. It makes it very easy to reason about and A/B test different colors to see what pallettes work. I have not really considered color blindness though, but per the article having color hues work in greyscale makes sense. Its like printing black/white documents VS color based docs. General rule of thumb to me is don't use more than 3 primary colors. The first starting point is to work with the existing theme's logo color choices. This vastly limits what range of colors you can use, depending on what emotions you want to evoke. Finding good color palletes is hard. Even with all the color choice palletes out there. Somedays I spend literally an entire day tweaking color choices on some projects. The critic in me cannot stand poor color choice selections. I sometimes wish I wasn't terrible at art either, telling stories is so much easier when you can make nice hand-drawn / watercolor drawings.