You guys just aren't old enough to remember twm, the original flat design.<p><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Twm.PNG" rel="nofollow">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Twm.PNG</a>
I find the current trendy 'flat' UI pastel-y colours, honestly, disgusting. Design is a matter of taste, and there's no accounting for other peoples' taste, but I am genuinely baffled about how anyone could like them.<p>Obviously <i>someone</i> does.<p>I wonder whether this is because flat design does away with all the helpful instinctive visual cues that were developed over the last decades (e.g. shadows, faux-3d borders etc) and needs to find new colours because there's no other way of expressing relationships?<p>Is it the case that designers have been forced to come up with 'more' colours under duress because of this, and have to try out new colours? Or is it that people genuinely like them? Or does 'like' not come into it? Or is there just one very influential designer at e.g. Google who has a different aesthetic to me?<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i>: I'm commenting on the colours on the page linked to this discussion. Not colours in general.
It looks like UI design is becoming like fashion; you need to completely revamp your visual presentation every few years, unless you want to look ancient. Personally, I much prefer OSX and iOS before it became flat - I understand why Google jumped on the FlatUI bandwagon (to differentiate themselves from Apple), but I really don't understand why Apple did too - do this people <i>really</i> think that there 5 year old's drawings are the height of visual experience?
Kind of annoying every tile becomes a Flash object when you hover over it. This makes it much harder for people without Flash to access (like me) to get the color codes. Even the people with Flash can't see the color code until they paste it somewhere.
What makes these colors "flat UI colors"? (Not trying to be snarky, actual question from someone who spends much time in Sketch.) Is it just a palette of somewhat matching colors or is there an underlying theme that I'm missing?
you should also check the flat ui terminal theme I've made <a href="https://dribbble.com/shots/1021755-Flat-UI-Terminal-Theme?list=users&offset=10" rel="nofollow">https://dribbble.com/shots/1021755-Flat-UI-Terminal-Theme?li...</a>
Hasn't this been reposted often enough? <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?q=flatuicolors.com#!/story/forever/0/flatuicolors.com" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?q=flatuicolors.com#!/story/forever/0...</a>
I find that <a href="http://flatuicolorpicker.com" rel="nofollow">http://flatuicolorpicker.com</a> provides a better interface.<p>This site never seems to copy the colour code first time.
I knew i came accross this somewhere : <a href="http://codepen.io/noahblon/pen/EGbCs" rel="nofollow">http://codepen.io/noahblon/pen/EGbCs</a><p>But who was first?
Great colours. If you'd like to use them in OSX, you can use the palette that I made.
<a href="https://github.com/hemantasapkota/FlatUIColorPaletteXCode" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hemantasapkota/FlatUIColorPaletteXCode</a>
5 must have colors for fall, plus 11 hot fashion trends.<p>Hey dummies: Flat design is a concept. It's not a fashion trend with specific "in" colors.<p>Some time ago, a bunch of idiots got their hands on UI design, and are turning into a fashion show.
Reading the color names, I thought Nephritis (#27ae60) sounded like something else…<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephritis" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephritis</a>
looks good, but the animated icon in the tab title is really annoying. My brain is wired to connect movement in small tab icons as notification indicators these days. Its catching my eye every few seconds while reading the comments here.