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Colors.lol (2020)

122 points by adamfuhrer 5y ago

samarthr1 5y ago
Unfortunately for whatever reason, i never quite figured out how to read/use a 5 color palette? Is it like on background, one foreground, one to highlight, one for the other highlight?
pvinis 5y ago
I love it!
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only4here 5y ago
This is awesome. I've been looking for color palette generating sites for a while, and this one is pretty good.
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dang 5y ago
Related: Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719288 - March 2020 (51 comments)
nojs 5y ago
On the topic of choosing colours, I recently discovered this article which cleared up a lot of misconceptions for me and made things much easier: https://www.refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette https://www.refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-p...
- manceraio 5y ago
  I made a small tool [1] trying to replicate this article using neural networks. [1] tailwind.ink
- ineedtosleep 5y ago
  Thanks for the link. This is definitely helpful as someone who is not a designer, but disappointed that it didn't go in more depth about how you _could_ use a color palette in UI color schemes.
- mdoms 5y ago
  That is an incredibly helpful resource, thanks.
- deckard1 5y ago
  to go with that article, the best advice for picking different shades of the same hue is to work in HSL color space rather than trying to use RGB. You'll sit there all day trying and failing to find colors that match in RGB.
- KTallguy 5y ago
  Incredibly useful article. Thank you.
- hypertele-Xii 5y ago
  The contrived example intentionally picks the worst colors for every element. Yellow for the background, really? Who is the author trying to fool? The generated five-color palette works absolutely fine. You just gotta use it right.
deostroll 5y ago
I couldn't get out of that website by hitting the browser back button... :/
- DougMellon 5y ago
  Which browser? Working fine for me in Firefox 97.0.1.
  - doubleorseven 5y ago
    I think the random link at the footer does a redirect to the random pallete so hitting the back button keeps you in the loop
    - kenrick95 5y ago
      PR submitted to fix this issue :) https://github.com/adamfuhrer/colors.lol/pull/23 https://github.com/adamfuhrer/colors.lol/pull/23
p2hari 5y ago
I have seen so many palettes and color programs online, but this is so nice. I am loving it.
igetspam 5y ago
I don't know what I'm looking at or why and I think these combos are incredibly loud. But I love them. I'm not good at anything related to aesthetics. I still dress like a "unsponsored skater" (ref: New Girl) so I'm hardly worth listening too but I really like these. I hardly bookmark anything on my phone but I'm keeping this.
swyx 5y ago
my collection of palette generators of every stripe here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#palette-generators https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#pal...
sam_goody 5y ago
I went to buy a used fridge, and the salesman offered me one in "tooth yellow", and another in "puke green". Good thing there were no brown fridges.. I felt the descriptions disconcertingly accurate.
wly_cdgr 5y ago
Meh. Most of these descriptions just seem like "lol random" low effort procedurally generated parody rather than something delightfully surprisingly precise
1_player 5y ago
"overly descriptive" as in "attach a random adjective" to each colour: - "undiagnosed light indigo". - "sporocystic deep pink", where sporocyst means a resting cell that produces asexual plant spores. - "biparous orangish", where biparous means birthing two young at a time.

Colors.lol (2020)

122 points by adamfuhrer 5y ago

Unfortunately for whatever reason, i never quite figured out how to read/use a 5 color palette? Is it like on background, one foreground, one to highlight, one for the other highlight?

pvinis 5y ago

I love it!

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only4here 5y ago

This is awesome. I've been looking for color palette generating sites for a while, and this one is pretty good.

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dang 5y ago

Related: Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719288 - March 2020 (51 comments)

nojs 5y ago

On the topic of choosing colours, I recently discovered this article which cleared up a lot of misconceptions for me and made things much easier: https://www.refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette https://www.refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-p...

manceraio 5y ago
I made a small tool [1] trying to replicate this article using neural networks. [1] tailwind.ink
ineedtosleep 5y ago
Thanks for the link. This is definitely helpful as someone who is not a designer, but disappointed that it didn't go in more depth about how you _could_ use a color palette in UI color schemes.
mdoms 5y ago
That is an incredibly helpful resource, thanks.
deckard1 5y ago
to go with that article, the best advice for picking different shades of the same hue is to work in HSL color space rather than trying to use RGB. You'll sit there all day trying and failing to find colors that match in RGB.
KTallguy 5y ago
Incredibly useful article. Thank you.
hypertele-Xii 5y ago
The contrived example intentionally picks the worst colors for every element. Yellow for the background, really? Who is the author trying to fool? The generated five-color palette works absolutely fine. You just gotta use it right.

deostroll 5y ago

I couldn't get out of that website by hitting the browser back button... :/

DougMellon 5y ago
Which browser? Working fine for me in Firefox 97.0.1.
- doubleorseven 5y ago
  I think the random link at the footer does a redirect to the random pallete so hitting the back button keeps you in the loop
  - kenrick95 5y ago
    PR submitted to fix this issue :) https://github.com/adamfuhrer/colors.lol/pull/23 https://github.com/adamfuhrer/colors.lol/pull/23

p2hari 5y ago

I have seen so many palettes and color programs online, but this is so nice. I am loving it.

igetspam 5y ago

I don't know what I'm looking at or why and I think these combos are incredibly loud. But I love them. I'm not good at anything related to aesthetics. I still dress like a "unsponsored skater" (ref: New Girl) so I'm hardly worth listening too but I really like these. I hardly bookmark anything on my phone but I'm keeping this.

swyx 5y ago

my collection of palette generators of every stripe here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#palette-generators https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#pal...

sam_goody 5y ago

I went to buy a used fridge, and the salesman offered me one in "tooth yellow", and another in "puke green". Good thing there were no brown fridges.. I felt the descriptions disconcertingly accurate.

wly_cdgr 5y ago

Meh. Most of these descriptions just seem like "lol random" low effort procedurally generated parody rather than something delightfully surprisingly precise

1_player 5y ago

"overly descriptive" as in "attach a random adjective" to each colour: - "undiagnosed light indigo". - "sporocystic deep pink", where sporocyst means a resting cell that produces asexual plant spores. - "biparous orangish", where biparous means birthing two young at a time.