Colors
Creative
color palette inspiration
SHOW HN2017
89points
21comments
#511of 2,242 in 2017
Top 23%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 2 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful and interesting research result
From 1 comment
As a research result, this is still an interesting outcome. Nobody has done this before, to my knowledge.
nerdponx on HN
Simple shuffle-based discovery of color inspiration
From 1 comment
Coolors looks nice :). I generate all palettes automatically from my design curation Pixels (klart.co/pixels). I want it to be really simple to find color inspiration so you can…
drikerf on HN
Objections
Some palettes are garish and the data model may not hold
From 1 comment
I don’t know if your data model (or general hypothesis) is working. There are some truly garish color combinations (too many to be a fluke) on the site, so I’m thinking some…
ComputerGuru on HN
Requests
Match palettes against requirements such as contrast or color difference
From 1 comment
Is there a way to pattern match against a set of requirements, like relative contrast or color difference?
thomastjeffery on HN
Questions
What algorithm produces the palettes
From 1 comment
What do you mean by "data-driven"? What algorithm are you using to produce the palettes?
tw1010 on HN
What does data-driven mean here
From 1 comment
What do you mean by "data-driven"? What algorithm are you using to produce the palettes?
tw1010 on HN
Alternatives named
Coolors
From 2 comments
Nice! Though it seems a lot like http://coolors.co, any differentiating aspects?
crodrigues on HNBig fan of coolers.co, really useful tool.
crsv on HN
Colormind
From 1 comment
This link might be useful for comparison: http://colormind.io
tomek_zemla on HN