I think that if there is voting, one should sort of do some type of spreading algorithm where the color you vote on, is sort of a much weaker vote for the surrounding colors.<p>There is just too many colours, especially in this color space, and it is sort of hard for humans to really differentiate them. Thus spread out the vote based on average human visual perception differentiability capabilities.<p>Also this color space (R x B x G box color space) spends too many bits on low intensity and high intensity colors. When a color is near white or black, we can not easily tell the hues apart.<p>A much better color space to vote on would be something akin to the Pantone color list or paint swatches. Way less colors but still roughly covering the whole color space.
People would probably vote more if they had to vote at least 5 times to see the ranks, i.e. say "3 more votes to see ranks" in top center, and then pop up the ranks automatically.<p>I don't think anyone would be mad.
HN top bar colours by popularity: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors</a>
This is a perfect example of why we need ranked choice voting. I think #BD60E2 is best, but due to its unpopularity I'm forced to vote #BD60E1 if I want my vote to matter.
Just a heads up, if you're using any dark mode extension you'll want to disable it for this site. (op, probably worth getting your site added to the global dark mode list)
Presumably the text color will distort the preferences? You're not deciding you prefer a color, you're deciding you prefer a background color for a white font.<p>At the moment it seems to be always white, maybe if it's always the opposite color on the color wheel that might offset it? Or maybe just have the text on a white card on the edge of the screen so you can focus on the color itself?
I suspect people are choosing more because of hue and undertones than strictly on RGB colors. It would be more interesting to aggregate the results up into more general conclusions - do people like pastels or earth tones better? How bright of a color is too bright before people stop voting for it? How dark?
Reminds me a bit of Colourlovers[0]. That website is unfortunately rather bloated though.<p>Obviously, the best color is #BADA55<p>[0] - <a href="https://www.colourlovers.com/colors/most-loved/all-time/meta" rel="nofollow">https://www.colourlovers.com/colors/most-loved/all-time/meta</a>
Voting on all 16 million is a cool concept, but given that this is probably going to be popular for only a day or so, probably not achievable. From your own ranks, only 0.27% of colours have been voted on at all, and most likely the majority of those voted on have a single vote.
Nice idea, but the <i>name</i> doesn't quite fit the <i>game</i>... I would expect to be able to vote for my favourite color, this is more like a "color election"
I felt my vote was very influenced by how many times I had already seen that hue. I probably would have voted more often for certain shades of green if I hadn't seen a slight variation of them three times already, for instance.
This was oddly satisfying and I voted on a bunch of colors. Definitely a bias towards my personal preferences and also what I think would be useable for websites but fun idea! Will be great to see the resulting data.
Huh, stumbled upon a strange visual effect. I got #0cc3bf (sorta cyan) above #acc2e0. When looking at the cyan, the other colour appeared lighter shade of blue/cyan in my peripheral vision. When I then looked straight at the lower colour it turned lilac. Almost pink to begin with. The effect was quite striking initially, to the extent that I suspected the page was varying the colour.<p>I'm on mobile. The phone was perhaps a little over a foot from my face. It's a sunny day in a room with a South facing window. I have a warmish LED light on (3000K).
Do they strictly increase vote on only the hues shown? Having a weighted multiplier of the vote on nearby hues that decreases the further away you go would reach a conclusion quicker.
I'm more interested in the algorithm behind the pairing. I wonder if it's randomly pairing colours or using something similar to adaptive comparative judgement.
Two comments:<p>- I don’t think the ordering relation is acyclical if no specific usage scenario is given for the color.<p>- After grading a dozen of color pairs or so and then looking at the rankings, I noticed that I had Smart Invert Colors turned on and had thus voted on the inverted colors. (I noticed because it seemed unlikely to me that most of the highest-ranking colors would be shades of brown. ;))
The hex codes cannot be selected/copied out which was disappointing, but perhaps worse is that the hex codes slowly fade away completely!<p>I only noticed the first time because there was a gorgeous gold/purple combination that I wanted to save, which makes me think there might be another layer of combination that can be saved which is worst/best combinations of colour.
I think nearly 17 million colours is too many! Maybe grouping close colours could be better.<p>The “best” colours also seem really bad, I wonder if what they appear next to gives false results. Still, interesting idea!
2 colors appear on both best and worst. Each lists a maximum of 5 colors. That should be enough to stop the experiment right there, unless your goal is to find the most controversial colors.<p>The takeaway seems to be that color preferences are highly subjective to the point that you might just be getting noise.<p>Also how is it that people are even seeing the same colors for this to have happened? Even with birthday problem seems unlikely that two of the exact same hex colors would end up on the two very short lists. Are you sure you're shuffling these?
Currently #d8e3a8 is the 4th best but also the second worst. Likewise #cce0c9 is the 5th best and 3rd worst. Has there been fewer than 10 colors voted on or what gives?
I wrote this blog post many many moons ago, but it'll give you the optimal color (black or white) for any given color/background. Should be quick and easy conversion from c# to javascript.<p><a href="http://blog.nitriq.com/BlackvsWhiteText.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blog.nitriq.com/BlackvsWhiteText.aspx</a>
I wonder how context sensitive these are. Will votes be different depending on pairings?<p>Now I'm imagining a site where you have a standard format(Like a page with body, borders, headers, links, banners, etc, or just an abstract arrangement of 2-5 colors), and people make pallets and vote on them.
Every one was easy to pick my preferred color until I got to 824268 and 199989. I honestly couldn’t choose which I preferred. I sat there for awhile trying to decide when the colors changed. Is it on a timer or did I accidentally choose one of the colors, even though I don’t think I did?
It's a nice toy, but I doubt its practical value as in design you deal with color palettes, not standalone colors. I might be wrong, but my gut feeling is that "the most popular" color wouldn't necessarily end up as a part of the most popular palette, or even in top 5.
The contrast with the text that shows the hex code seems to interfere with my judgement. Perhaps leaving out the text, or showing it in smaller text on the bottom could help a tiny bit. But I suspect monitor quality/calibration has a larger effect.
They should create a little "status map" which shows the entire palette of all available sRGB colors and fills out those who have been voted on.<p>That would at least make it interesting to keep voting and seeing the map fill out.
Excited to see some results from this. I was disappointed that there was no real payoff as an end user who voted. Any way to see the current overall status of like the top 100?
#988edc Appears as fifth best and as third worst<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/jZRQyt3" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/jZRQyt3</a>