Colors Used by Popular Sites
Creative
web color visualization
SHOW HN2016
179points
38comments
#168of 2,264 in 2016
Top 8%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Execution: 0 for, 5 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting visualization and idea
From 3 comments
I think the idea is extremely interesting but after seeing 2 of the caveats at the end, I didn't have nearly as much confidence in the data. "3. If a color is found inside of a…
thekevan on HNI think the pictures would be prettier if similar colours were together. Even straight Euclidean in RGB and then sorting will probably be good enough for this purpose, though you…
arjie on HNLooks like Internet is mostly blue.
adontz on HN
Useful related work from others
From 3 comments
Paul, I made something similar - http://bardagjy.com/?p=1639 I had the same problem with Javascript so I used I used Selenium to drive Chrome to take a screencap of the page.…
dynode on HNI had a similar idea recently, originally I intended to try and identify "fashionable" color palettes, which worked pretty well:…
nprescott on HN* Spectrum - Chrome Web Store || https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spectrum/ofclemegkcmilinpcimpjkfhjfgmhieb > Instantly test your web page with different types of color…
dbg31415 on HN
Objections
Scrapes only CSS color codes, not rendered or image colors
From 3 comments
I think the idea is extremely interesting but after seeing 2 of the caveats at the end, I didn't have nearly as much confidence in the data. "3. If a color is found inside of a…
thekevan on HNNot sure if I'm missing something, but the main Google logo colors aren't reflected in the Google section. Is this just HTML color codes rather than images. I guess the challenge…
sb8244 on HNHey thanks for checking this out! Right now my scraping script only pulls the HTML color codes and doesn't attempt to pull colors from images. Additionally, a color code could be…
paulhebert on HN
Text matching produces false positives like tan in phrases
From 1 comment
I think the idea is extremely interesting but after seeing 2 of the caveats at the end, I didn't have nearly as much confidence in the data. "3. If a color is found inside of a…
thekevan on HN
Camelcase text parsed as color names
From 2 comments
I was wondering why Twitter would use the the colors 'red', 'Red', 'rEd', and 'reD'. I think thekevan's comment explains it though. :)
cjwelborn on HNHaha, yep. Probably some camelCase that my parser accidentally interpreted as a color name. This bug is at the top of the list for resolution based on feedback I've been getting.
paulhebert on HN
Requests
Use headless browser or Selenium for rendered colors
From 3 comments
A different approach, if you wanted to do something more accurate (this is also a reasonable choice in my opinion, given that you have a fixed number of sites you're looking at)…
iLoch on HNPaul, I made something similar - http://bardagjy.com/?p=1639 I had the same problem with Javascript so I used I used Selenium to drive Chrome to take a screencap of the page.…
dynode on HNI'd second using selenium / webdriver for this. You wouldn't need a great deal of code to get the raw pixel data. The area I suspect will need thought is how one gives "value" to…
nmstoker on HN
Sort colors by hue
From 2 comments
I would like to see the colors sorted by hue
eekfuh on HNI think the pictures would be prettier if similar colours were together. Even straight Euclidean in RGB and then sorting will probably be good enough for this purpose, though you…
arjie on HN
Questions
How Alexa determines the most popular sites
From 1 comment
But how does Alexa determine the most popular sites to begin with? I’ve never asked myself that.
SimeVidas on HN
Alternatives named
Andy's Selenium and k-means screenshot color extraction
From 1 comment
Paul, I made something similar - http://bardagjy.com/?p=1639 I had the same problem with Javascript so I used I used Selenium to drive Chrome to take a screencap of the page.…
dynode on HN
Nolan's fashionable color palette scraper
From 1 comment
I had a similar idea recently, originally I intended to try and identify "fashionable" color palettes, which worked pretty well:…
nprescott on HN
Spectrum Chrome extension for color vision deficiency
From 1 comment
* Spectrum - Chrome Web Store || https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spectrum/ofclemegkcmilinpcimpjkfhjfgmhieb > Instantly test your web page with different types of color…
dbg31415 on HN