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This is incredibly useful for anyone designing a new site from scratch. I think it's quite useful for reimagining the colors of your existing site, too, with on

This is incredibly useful for anyone designing a new site from scratch. I think it's quite useful for reimagining the colors of your existing site, too, with one caveat. I'd love to be able to enter some of my own colors - and have your tool suggest a color palette. Not the easiest feature to add, but would be exceptionally useful. Either way, I love what you do, mackenziechild and have followed your work for years. You have inspired me over and over to improve DarwinMail [1]. Some of your small design tips have vastly improved the UI of DarwinMail. Thank you so much for all your tutorials, tweets and general design inspiration. PS: I also love that you were a designer first, and decided to learn how to code too. It's so useful to learn in that order. No wonder your projects are always so brilliant. [1] https://www.darwinmail.app https://www.darwinmail.app

elefantastisch 7y ago
https://coolors.co/ https://coolors.co/ can suggest colors to go with user-entered colors. No affiliation, just a tool I've used.
- DarwinMailApp 7y ago
  A fantastic tool! Thank you for sharing. The only drawback is that I cannot see the colors on the UI (on a sample website) like I can with Happy Hues. Granted, I can copy them into my website to test out. I just love how easy it is to use Happy Hues.
sombremesa 7y ago
> I'd love to be able to enter some of my own colors - and have your tool suggest a color palette. Not sure whether that's possible with this site, since it was built without code.
- DarwinMailApp 7y ago
  I don't think it is. Still an incredibly useful website with a gorgeous design!
- mackenziechild 7y ago
  It probably _could_ be, but I'd probably have to build (or hire someone to build) some sort of external app / database to manage all that. A simpler solution I thought about what recreating the layout in Figma or Sketch, then someone could create their own palette simply by tweaking color swatches (and have it auto update on the mockup).
  - sombremesa 7y ago
    It might be easier to get someone to build you a bookmarklet that uses JS and puts an input on the page. Do the tools you're using (webflow) not let you put any custom JavaScript on the page?
mackenziechild 7y ago
Thanks dude, you're too kind
- DarwinMailApp 7y ago
  You're welcome buddy

elefantastisch 7y ago

https://coolors.co/ https://coolors.co/ can suggest colors to go with user-entered colors. No affiliation, just a tool I've used.

DarwinMailApp 7y ago
A fantastic tool! Thank you for sharing. The only drawback is that I cannot see the colors on the UI (on a sample website) like I can with Happy Hues. Granted, I can copy them into my website to test out. I just love how easy it is to use Happy Hues.

sombremesa 7y ago

> I'd love to be able to enter some of my own colors - and have your tool suggest a color palette. Not sure whether that's possible with this site, since it was built without code.

DarwinMailApp 7y ago
I don't think it is. Still an incredibly useful website with a gorgeous design!
mackenziechild 7y ago
It probably _could_ be, but I'd probably have to build (or hire someone to build) some sort of external app / database to manage all that. A simpler solution I thought about what recreating the layout in Figma or Sketch, then someone could create their own palette simply by tweaking color swatches (and have it auto update on the mockup).
- sombremesa 7y ago
  It might be easier to get someone to build you a bookmarklet that uses JS and puts an input on the page. Do the tools you're using (webflow) not let you put any custom JavaScript on the page?

mackenziechild 7y ago

Thanks dude, you're too kind

DarwinMailApp 7y ago
You're welcome buddy