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Color Hunt – Color Palettes for Designers and Artists

62 points by hamid914 8y ago

jkbyc 8y ago
I used to use this site: https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes but I see it's become a bit bloated. It used to look more like colorhunt
chiefalchemist 8y ago
I'm not being difficult, but how is this different / better than the other similar sites? I'm not seeing / feeling anything compelling. Is it because I'm in a small screen device?
- hamid914 8y ago
  I feel comfortable with simplicity and minimality in the interface.
  - chiefalchemist 8y ago
    Well as one of the principals, you should ;)
- bufferoverflow 8y ago
  Seriously, why is this upvoted so much? There are dozens, if not hundreds, of color palette sites out there.
- 112358H 8y ago
  Key difference: this one doesn’t work on mobile.
jimhefferon 8y ago
Are the palettes Free? I did not see a license, for instance under About.
- cseelus 8y ago
  I'm no lawyer but I expect this to fall below the threshold of originality[1] or 'Schöpfungshöhe'. 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality
- hamid914 8y ago
  This is from About page: "Each palette is a public property and not owned by a specific creator, nor by Color Hunt."
  - HocusLocus 8y ago
    The phrase, "Each [object] is a public property and not owned by a specific creator, nor by [organization]" is closely derived from my own original intellectual property and I will now proceed to sue Color Hunt for appropriating it.
    - hamid914 8y ago
      Really?! Is it possible for you to provide any reference?
  - jimhefferon 8y ago
    Thank you, I missed it
bobbydreamer 8y ago
These are the sites I use for colour combinations https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ https://color.review/ https://color.review/ https://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/popular.php https://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/popular.php
karmakaze 8y ago
This would be much more useful with text shown using these as foreground/background colors.
HocusLocus 8y ago
DO visit quadibloc's color page, http://www.quadibloc.com/other/colint.htm http://www.quadibloc.com/other/colint.htm It is one of those pages that has been around forever and keeps getting better. I was glad to discover it years ago (it had a grey background then, how old does that make me?) and its intriguing re-organizations of the author's own 240 hue color wheel loosely based on the Munsell system, http://www.quadibloc.com/other/images/240ccf.gif http://www.quadibloc.com/other/images/240ccf.gif that is a mighty fine hue base for a color picker. It embodies the author's human perception of color. For example -- compared to raw RGBspace, the massive area of green is relegated to a smaller area, and the small area of violet is expanded. Also the space between red/yellow is expansive enough that once you branch off these hues into tangents of lightness and saturation, you can pick better flesh tones, more vibrant pastels, and fewer 'muck-yuck' tones such as the ones you get most often when you poke randomly into RGB space.
mulholio 8y ago
I used to like these sites, but after doing a bit more design work I've realised they're never enough. You need a bunch of different shades for each colour, a set of neutrals, and set of complimentary colours too (and that's just the colours). Give me a 30 colour generator then I might be interested
- scoggs 8y ago
  Here's your ticket: http://www.0to255.com/b4d355 http://www.0to255.com/b4d355 0to255 + whichever Color Palette Website of Choice = A great starting point.
- krsdcbl 8y ago
  30 may be out of range again, but your point is exactly right. None of these color palette sites & service ever work for actual interface or brand design work. They encourage picking harmonic sets of 4-5 colors, which is only a secondary parameter when actually designing - you need contrast & workable combinations first and foremost, while you seldomly really want more than two different hues (unless you know what you're doing with them). I consider offers like this a nice starting point, get an impression of different ranges. But even if I end up picking a set from there, I'll seldom be using all of the suggested colors in a set to build my palette.
Wistar 8y ago
My favorite color hunting ground is the packaging in a good-sized supermarket.

62 points by hamid914 8y ago

I used to use this site: https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes but I see it's become a bit bloated. It used to look more like colorhunt

chiefalchemist 8y ago

I'm not being difficult, but how is this different / better than the other similar sites? I'm not seeing / feeling anything compelling. Is it because I'm in a small screen device?

hamid914 8y ago
I feel comfortable with simplicity and minimality in the interface.
- chiefalchemist 8y ago
  Well as one of the principals, you should ;)
bufferoverflow 8y ago
Seriously, why is this upvoted so much? There are dozens, if not hundreds, of color palette sites out there.
112358H 8y ago
Key difference: this one doesn’t work on mobile.

jimhefferon 8y ago

Are the palettes Free? I did not see a license, for instance under About.

cseelus 8y ago
I'm no lawyer but I expect this to fall below the threshold of originality[1] or 'Schöpfungshöhe'. 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality
hamid914 8y ago
This is from About page: "Each palette is a public property and not owned by a specific creator, nor by Color Hunt."
- HocusLocus 8y ago
  The phrase, "Each [object] is a public property and not owned by a specific creator, nor by [organization]" is closely derived from my own original intellectual property and I will now proceed to sue Color Hunt for appropriating it.
  - hamid914 8y ago
    Really?! Is it possible for you to provide any reference?
- jimhefferon 8y ago
  Thank you, I missed it

bobbydreamer 8y ago

These are the sites I use for colour combinations https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ https://color.review/ https://color.review/ https://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/popular.php https://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/popular.php

karmakaze 8y ago

This would be much more useful with text shown using these as foreground/background colors.

HocusLocus 8y ago

DO visit quadibloc's color page, http://www.quadibloc.com/other/colint.htm http://www.quadibloc.com/other/colint.htm It is one of those pages that has been around forever and keeps getting better. I was glad to discover it years ago (it had a grey background then, how old does that make me?) and its intriguing re-organizations of the author's own 240 hue color wheel loosely based on the Munsell system, http://www.quadibloc.com/other/images/240ccf.gif http://www.quadibloc.com/other/images/240ccf.gif that is a mighty fine hue base for a color picker. It embodies the author's human perception of color. For example -- compared to raw RGBspace, the massive area of green is relegated to a smaller area, and the small area of violet is expanded. Also the space between red/yellow is expansive enough that once you branch off these hues into tangents of lightness and saturation, you can pick better flesh tones, more vibrant pastels, and fewer 'muck-yuck' tones such as the ones you get most often when you poke randomly into RGB space.

mulholio 8y ago

I used to like these sites, but after doing a bit more design work I've realised they're never enough. You need a bunch of different shades for each colour, a set of neutrals, and set of complimentary colours too (and that's just the colours). Give me a 30 colour generator then I might be interested

scoggs 8y ago
Here's your ticket: http://www.0to255.com/b4d355 http://www.0to255.com/b4d355 0to255 + whichever Color Palette Website of Choice = A great starting point.
krsdcbl 8y ago
30 may be out of range again, but your point is exactly right. None of these color palette sites & service ever work for actual interface or brand design work. They encourage picking harmonic sets of 4-5 colors, which is only a secondary parameter when actually designing - you need contrast & workable combinations first and foremost, while you seldomly really want more than two different hues (unless you know what you're doing with them). I consider offers like this a nice starting point, get an impression of different ranges. But even if I end up picking a set from there, I'll seldom be using all of the suggested colors in a set to build my palette.

Wistar 8y ago

My favorite color hunting ground is the packaging in a good-sized supermarket.