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Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

157 pointsby manueslaperaover 10 years ago

25 comments

henningoover 10 years ago
Nice implementation - less is more!<p>What algorithm did you use for color extraction? I seem to getting colors with the correct hue, but too low saturation? (example: Ferrari)<p>You could also imagine to not show colors with very low saturation (ie. white&#x2F;gray&#x2F;blacks). I&#x27;ve previously used Colorific [1] which seems to address some of those things!<p>[1] <a href="http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/05/11/color-analysis/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;99designs.com&#x2F;tech-blog&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;11&#x2F;color-analysi...</a>
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manueslaperaover 10 years ago
aaaand you guys killed my tiniy Digital Ocean server.
dushonokover 10 years ago
Nice! Though it seems the app is biased towards darker hues
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aepearsonover 10 years ago
So simple - but so cool. What a great idea.<p>My only &quot;critique&quot; would be to make the hex codes copy&#x2F;paste ready in the results. I like the links to dribble, but I&#x27;d really like to just be able to quickly copy&#x2F;paste the hex codes.
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allworknoplayover 10 years ago
This is pretty great!<p>I think maybe there&#x27;s a little too much averaging going on? I get a lot of muted colors and way more browns than expected. For example, try &quot;America&quot; or &quot;France&quot; or &quot;China&quot; (I actually first tried &quot;murica&quot;) and you might expect to see pretty standard bright colors, but it&#x27;s not so much the case. The query where I got exactly what I expected was &quot;fabulous&quot;.
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elrosover 10 years ago
Hey compañero, that&#x27;s very cool! I wonder how hard would it be to add the query to the URL so that I can paste it to someone? :-)
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damon_cover 10 years ago
I&#x27;m going to guess, google image search and take the most common colors from the 1st couple of images?
austinhutchover 10 years ago
Can you share any of the source? I would really like to learn how you did this. Awesome job, I love it!
ecesenaover 10 years ago
Really cool! If it can help, I was searching &quot;gluten free&quot; and the very first result contains colors very very similar, almost indistinguishable: #E51C20 vs #EF1A21, and #F4F2EC vs #FFF
daddykotexover 10 years ago
I really like that, that it&#x27;s nice a idea to build palettes on related images. I thought you would have a special formula that matches words with specific colors!
jackmaneyover 10 years ago
Cool! How does the color selection work? Is it just the five most common colors in a given image, or is it more sophisticated than that?
thisjepisjeover 10 years ago
When I search for &quot;shit&quot; all I get is motivational posters and they&#x27;re not even brown.<p>edit: Bing images does a way better job than google.
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thrushover 10 years ago
Would love to have an option to store state in the query string or hash so that I could share my favorite palette :)
ch4s3over 10 years ago
I love it! This is a really fun idea. My favorite so far is &#x27;coin operated helicopter&#x27;
pocketheymanover 10 years ago
This is a solid. Simple, intuitive, organized. How long did it take to write?
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Globzover 10 years ago
Solid tool, I like it and might be very useful for future projects!
seviloover 10 years ago
nice! I found myself having to dig around the internet when it comes to looking for colour palette for graphic design, the links to related works on dribble are very helpful too
padhoover 10 years ago
Congrats, this is a nice idea and an awesome execution of it. :)
thekylemontagover 10 years ago
Hope DO comes back up soon! I want to check this out.
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canthonytucciover 10 years ago
works incredibly well. a fantastic idea.<p>you should sign your work! Drop at least a link to your twitter at the bottom, this is a great tool.
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heiselbergover 10 years ago
Great idea! I will absolutely usw this
SeanKilleenover 10 years ago
Neat tool. Thanks for sharing!
tobiaswrightover 10 years ago
Interesting solve. I like it.
missscripterover 10 years ago
A brilliant idea!
xmpirateover 10 years ago
this is awesome!