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I love the approach, however, the palettes all seem to be in the same style. A bit more diversity would be cool. Any other sites HN could recommend for picking

I love the approach, however, the palettes all seem to be in the same style. A bit more diversity would be cool. Any other sites HN could recommend for picking colors? I suck at that. Colourlovers is a classic I know about, but iirc it is complicated with copyright. https://www.colourlovers.com/ https://www.colourlovers.com/

rriepe 7y ago
I made one that gives 12 palettes for any base color: http://strapless.io/ http://strapless.io/
_eric 7y ago
Lately I have been using color.adobe[0] or palx[1] a lot. [0] https://color.adobe.com https://color.adobe.com [1] https://palx.jxnblk.com https://palx.jxnblk.com
- airstrike 7y ago
  kuler.adobe.com is only similar if you mean the parent should be browsing the community themes, otherwise it's more like a color picker with optional constraints based on color theory (which are great starting points but won't really guide you to the finish line) the second link has way too many colors to really be useful
apsanz 7y ago
I like https://coolors.co/ https://coolors.co/ for quickly cycling though options and being able lock certain colors.
- airstrike 7y ago
  That one has an egregious ad floating on top of the palette on mobile and the controls UI is all borked
blago 7y ago
https://flatuicolors.com/ https://flatuicolors.com/
- airstrike 7y ago
  This seems closer to a set of colors for the terminal which is great when you're looking for swatches that go together for every color but doesn't help you decide which colors to use in your design
  - Daneel_ 7y ago
    This is exactly how I use this - I’ve had the UI palette v1 colours as my terminal colours for almost four years and they’re a solid combination. I use RGB 16,40,64 as the background.
gagahpangeran 7y ago
https://colorsupplyyy.com/ https://colorsupplyyy.com/
mackenziechild 7y ago
What do you mean by same style? Like alternating backgrounds and such? I used Webflow CMS to build it, so I was a little bit limited in the amount of colors I could use unless I wanted to upgrade to the business plan lol.
- BoorishBears 7y ago
  All pastels
- adventskalender 7y ago
  I don't know how to describe it, sorry. Like as if they are all printed on recycling paper, perhaps? They have a touch of grayness? Or perhaps it is "all pastels", as the other comment said? Sorry I am not artist enough to be able to describe it.
  - mackenziechild 7y ago
    Ah gotcha. Yeah there is definitely a lot of pastel palettes on there. I guess that's what I lean towards. I'll try to add more, non pastel palettes soon :)
swyx 7y ago
i happen to keep a list of these things! under Color Picking https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy
- Mike_Andreuzza 7y ago
  Here is mine if you want to add it !
xemoka 7y ago
I quite like http://colormind.io/ http://colormind.io/
ollerac 7y ago
A simple approach I love is just to choose a simple color scheme like Open Colors (https://yeun.github.io/open-color/ https://yeun.github.io/open-color/) and just use colors from there. There's also this great article: https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette/ https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palet...
- dpau 7y ago
  both of these links are excellent. i love that open color has sass and i can just use the variables in bootstrap. thank you.
taco_emoji 7y ago
I like the limited choices - it's much less overwhelming, and it's nice to have an opinionated curation.
mutatio 7y ago
https://encycolorpedia.com/ https://encycolorpedia.com/
samcampbell 7y ago
https://www.colorbox.io/ https://www.colorbox.io/
Kiro 7y ago
What about their copyright? Can a palette actually be copyrighted?
- adventskalender 7y ago
  Iirc at least they claim copyright - whether it would actually be valid I don't know.
aeorgnoieang 7y ago
For maps: - [ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps](http://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3 http://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3)
anaxag0ras 7y ago
I like https://www.colorsandfonts.com/ https://www.colorsandfonts.com/. It has a lot of color options such as gradients, contrasts, pallets, and has font pairings too.

rriepe 7y ago

I made one that gives 12 palettes for any base color: http://strapless.io/ http://strapless.io/

_eric 7y ago

Lately I have been using color.adobe[0] or palx[1] a lot. [0] https://color.adobe.com https://color.adobe.com [1] https://palx.jxnblk.com https://palx.jxnblk.com

airstrike 7y ago
kuler.adobe.com is only similar if you mean the parent should be browsing the community themes, otherwise it's more like a color picker with optional constraints based on color theory (which are great starting points but won't really guide you to the finish line) the second link has way too many colors to really be useful

apsanz 7y ago

I like https://coolors.co/ https://coolors.co/ for quickly cycling though options and being able lock certain colors.

airstrike 7y ago
That one has an egregious ad floating on top of the palette on mobile and the controls UI is all borked

blago 7y ago

https://flatuicolors.com/ https://flatuicolors.com/

airstrike 7y ago
This seems closer to a set of colors for the terminal which is great when you're looking for swatches that go together for every color but doesn't help you decide which colors to use in your design
- Daneel_ 7y ago
  This is exactly how I use this - I’ve had the UI palette v1 colours as my terminal colours for almost four years and they’re a solid combination. I use RGB 16,40,64 as the background.

gagahpangeran 7y ago

https://colorsupplyyy.com/ https://colorsupplyyy.com/

mackenziechild 7y ago

What do you mean by same style? Like alternating backgrounds and such? I used Webflow CMS to build it, so I was a little bit limited in the amount of colors I could use unless I wanted to upgrade to the business plan lol.

BoorishBears 7y ago
All pastels
adventskalender 7y ago
I don't know how to describe it, sorry. Like as if they are all printed on recycling paper, perhaps? They have a touch of grayness? Or perhaps it is "all pastels", as the other comment said? Sorry I am not artist enough to be able to describe it.
- mackenziechild 7y ago
  Ah gotcha. Yeah there is definitely a lot of pastel palettes on there. I guess that's what I lean towards. I'll try to add more, non pastel palettes soon :)

swyx 7y ago

i happen to keep a list of these things! under Color Picking https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy

Mike_Andreuzza 7y ago
Here is mine if you want to add it !

xemoka 7y ago

I quite like http://colormind.io/ http://colormind.io/

ollerac 7y ago

A simple approach I love is just to choose a simple color scheme like Open Colors (https://yeun.github.io/open-color/ https://yeun.github.io/open-color/) and just use colors from there. There's also this great article: https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette/ https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palet...

dpau 7y ago
both of these links are excellent. i love that open color has sass and i can just use the variables in bootstrap. thank you.

taco_emoji 7y ago

I like the limited choices - it's much less overwhelming, and it's nice to have an opinionated curation.

mutatio 7y ago

https://encycolorpedia.com/ https://encycolorpedia.com/

samcampbell 7y ago

https://www.colorbox.io/ https://www.colorbox.io/

Kiro 7y ago

What about their copyright? Can a palette actually be copyrighted?

adventskalender 7y ago
Iirc at least they claim copyright - whether it would actually be valid I don't know.

aeorgnoieang 7y ago

For maps: - [ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps](http://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3 http://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3)

anaxag0ras 7y ago

I like https://www.colorsandfonts.com/ https://www.colorsandfonts.com/. It has a lot of color options such as gradients, contrasts, pallets, and has font pairings too.