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Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
- thecodrr 7y agoI took two of your colors, lol. :D hehe Thanks a lot!
- _eht 7y agoannihilating duck egg blue (#C3FBF4) is a personal favorite.
- throwaway_pdp09 7y agoFantastic! Love the onlyworkswithjavascript pure white (#FFFFFF)
- salimmadjd 7y agoThis is awesome. Bookmarked. Thank you
- picdit 7y agoThank you!
- Razengan 7y agoLove the clean UX. Obligatory reminder/request to add wide-color support for colors-focused apps/services (where it makes sense): https://webkit.org/blog/6682/improving-color-on-the-web/ https://webkit.org/blog/6682/improving-color-on-the-web/
- picdit 7y agoThanks for sharing that link.
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- chris_st 7y agoAwesome! You might consider using colors from Janelle's famous color names experiment[0]. [0] https://tmblr.co/ZP7VLs2LxVDcI https://tmblr.co/ZP7VLs2LxVDcI -- part 2!
- 2J0 7y agoThank you for a wonderful link - speaking with you as a dual Barco CRT flashing Intergrsph TD-610 Quad PPro wielding dinosaur and present day owner of a Cs200 MI opts spot colorimeter and the scars,literally from moving office, to show for my sins, having been tricked into believing that RNNs were passeé how could anyone fail to test so good a idea of how to explain what the "unused ninety percent" of our brains is up to?...., anywhere but Tumblr I'd have thought to be the repose for such a thoroughly intriguing essay... What bus vd I been missing? Posted to prevent the utl discouraging anyone else who should benefit from reading.
- aabhay 7y agoHello BERT?
- yamrzou 7y agoIt feels so satisfying to be able to finally name these colors.
- code_duck 7y agoHilarious! A good friend is a color designer (selects palettes for major product lines) and she will love this.
- 2J0 7y agoIt's called being Trade Dress artist of manager, or at least before the uncalibrated www came along, there was great need for the role and I will attest the importance of making it a separate job function with direct bottom line affect.
- CodiePetersen 7y agoThis is great stuff. I make video games and its some times hard to find what colors would go good with others. This is a nice collection I think. Also, it looks like it would be great for deciding colors for a pitch deck/presentation. Good stuff.
- aaanotherhnfolk 7y agoAnother good palette-hunting tool is Adobe Kuler. It's interactive so you can lock down parameters you like and continue searching the possibility space
- picdit 7y agoAwesome.
- 2J0 7y agoApps like Kuler are IP territorial land grabs. I'm so disappointed with the level of understanding of colof (and other widely used and tremendously important knowledge) that if anyone has a London home for opening a reference library I'd start by filling out a wall with the books. I long plotted opening a wework like office and furnishing the place with everything I need to return to business or try build anew bug can't afford to do simultaneously with buying the lease. You need professional lighting and environment for reading this kind of subject.
- uryga 7y agoif the author(s) are reading this, the names seem to have gotten switched around on this one: https://colors.lol/outward- https://colors.lol/outward- outward-bound slate grey #F19E8E unstatesmanlike reddish grey #98756F cross-sectional blush #58656D the first and last names are swapped.
- werber 7y agoDidn’t know that lol was a tld but i did lol
- Der_Einzige 7y agoThis is super awesome. Thank you for making this!
- reffaelwallen 7y agoIs it different from https://www.colourlovers.com/ https://www.colourlovers.com/ ?
- ebeip90 7y agoSome of these palettes aren't accessible to the colorblind. For example, "gorgeous light lavender" and "endothermic neon blue" are identical to me.
- starkd 7y agoI don't even recognize the adjectives used. Might as well be randomly generated.
- 2J0 7y agoI don't recognise the adjectives used in modern speech or even the papers. I suffered a massive memory loss rendering almost all of past ten years cut from my experience during my recovery. In the meantime language changed sufficiently to reduce me to a children's reading age.
- zahreeley 7y agoQuiet. Just praise him
- IgorPartola 7y agoIs there some piece of software that can change my screen to show me what a colorblind person would see? I know red/green is a no no for like 5% of people, but us there some way to do this systematically?
- schwartzworld 7y agoyes! in chrome dev tools https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1237393102635012101 https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1237393102635012101?
- schwartzworld 7y agoyes! in chrome dev tools https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1237393102635012101 https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1237393102635012101
- undershirt 7y agoI can’t find the source now, but does anyone remember the collection of color names based on real things? It felt meaningful to remember the spectrum of colors that way (instead of arbitrary qualifiers), but now I can’t find it.
- moiriad 7y agoBy any Chance: Werner's Nomenclature of Colours ?
- undershirt 7y agoFinally found my notes on it, and threw this quick page on it since the original website doesn’t seem to work: https://observablehq.com/@shaunlebron/meaningful-color-names https://observablehq.com/@shaunlebron/meaningful-color-names I had not heard of Werner’s, but I like the idea of colors based on animal, floral, and mineral, thanks for the reference!
- hanoz 7y agoLol, but I was a bit disappointed to find only the individual colours named. I was expecting to see overly pretentious names for the palettes themselves.
- 2J0 7y agouninviting greyish green #82A67D cultrate bright light green #2DFE54 muttering dusty purple #825F87 #00000 fade to black on poetic combination descriptor
- loloroca 7y agoI think you can see what colorblind people see with glasses, maybe I don't know if we all see the same colors or we take it for obvious because we all set it, what a fear, enter here to see how I see https://reason.com/2020/02/26/trump-campaign-files-libel-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times/#comment-8146096 https://reason.com/2020/02/26/trump-campaign-files-libel-law...
- dragonshed 7y agoThis great. I can't wait to see if I can sneak some of these names into my next project. In the past I've used zeke's color-namer[0] package to nail down color names. But, anything that stops names like $color-bluish-white is a win. [0]https://github.com/colorjs/color-namer https://github.com/colorjs/color-namer
- Amorymeltzer 7y agoNot palettes, but for the authoritative "name" of a given color, I turn to the results of xkcd's color survey: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ and the list at https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/
- 2J0 7y agoThis is big business. Naming colours is a huge money spinning scheme. Pantone has been given a monopoly because... Because no reason! Forget open source as in beer software for the moment and let's write truly international canonical colour name reference. I will get this going personally next month with anyone willing. I can support expenses and organise support and removal of all chores. I can ship the necessary tooling to participate. The project must he nonprofit by nature but I am fully equipped with the legal resources to trade donated time for real sweat equity first in line for being proportionally paid without affecting the nonprofit organ. I love the idea of what you could achieve with the royalty income - what happens when the ODSS graphics programme worlf gets a no strings income and can be hiring and tooling the enterprise wetware necessary for the first rate conditions that only the big companies enjoy. Non profit charity organisations don't deprive their own people much anything. Sure enough for real is a helluva long shot but anyone? Shoot the breeze and scheme at least possible to collaborate via true accurate color rendition with a little bit of setting up I'm comfortable with. This is exactly the sort of thing that m6 late confounding partner wished our enterprise would be doing if our exit fell thru and his passing sure did (unnecessarily the route wasn't seen by a phalanx of attorneys highly motivated by closing fees. Ancient history now but I am speaking with genuinely passionate excitement at the fundamental principles and practice of the kind of business that is a strategic economic accelerator. I've decades of experience in media to lecture on why this is so crucial for business especially in the smaller business strata.
- egypturnash 7y agoI think there’s a perfectly good reason for their nigh-monopoly: Pantone has been clawing their way to the top of the space of talking about color for a little under sixty years now, with a constantly-updated set of references that they managed to get into every commercial artist’s toolkit for a big part of that span of time. That said a quick check suggests that the average corporate lifespan is anywhere from 20-60 years, depending on the list, so they may be ripe for disruption.
- personjerry 7y agoThose look like awesome purses
- soonix 7y agoI like the color names, but am a bit disappointed there are multiple names for the same color, e.g. #000000 is 'divorced black' in one palette, and 'contributable black' in another.
- teslademigod1 7y agogreat resource with a sense of humor. loving the "contributable black"
- runxel 7y ago"Lousy Watermelon" Thanks for this laugh! :D
- parkersweb 7y agoI've been using this resource: http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/ http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/ in naming CSS colour variables for years. It can often help with that gray-700/800/900 or gray-light/lighter/lightest issue where another colour needs to be added to the palette between existing values.
- foobarian 7y agoEven aside from the color names, these color combinations are fantastic! Are they auto-generated?