First: Don't get bogged down by random HN commenters' feature requests. Second: I have a feature request. I'd love a native version for Mac OS with a magnifying glass thing that allows me to select a color somewhere else on my screen, and then suggest complimentary colors. I'd gladly pay for that!
If you'll accept the step of copying the values into the tool that figures out the complementary colors for you, macOS comes with Digital Color Meter, which will tell you the color of anything on your screen.
Commentbait, I smell it but still will say this.. A good side project takes one or more known solutions and applies it to a niche. There's endless niches out there if you stand still and squint a bit.
I keep contrast (usecontrast.com) open as a picker and accessibility testing tool, but I agree, adding recommendations based on color theory, etc would make it even more usable. It has a few hotkeys that work well and is minimal enough to make the startup list.
A quick and dirty way to make that ability easier (easier than creating a native app at least) would be to just offer a quick "paste or upload image here" section that then would allow the user to use a color picker on said image.
Then one could take a quick screenshot of their screen and just paste it into the web app.
You just requested a random feature which contradicts the point you made in the previous sentence. Also why are you bringing money into this? And are you saying you wouldn't pay for this awesome tool as is?
>You just requested a random feature which contradicts the point you made in the previous sentence.
1) Requesting a feature immediately after was intended as a joke.
2) It still doesn't contradict it. The first point merely advices the programmer to "not get overwhelmed by feature requests". Such an advice is not contradictory to making one from a formal logic perspective.
looks nice! unfortunately when I try to select a color from the wheel, the line switches to a horizontal position (dark blue o----o bright orange) and gets stuck there :(
This is suprisingly helpful. I’ve seen all these color systems before, but this site demonstrates the design possibilities they create much better than any color guide I’ve used before.
I have to say I like this - great design, easy to operate, etc.
I think something needs to be done to better indicate "other wheel selections" (ie - to move to "square" or "analogous", etc) - while I discovered it fairly quickly, it wasn't as intuitive as I think it could have been.
Beyond that it's a great tool, and the pricing for the more advanced version is decent. That said, it wouldn't take much for someone to build something like this into say, a VSCode plugin or whatnot, so I'm curious what your plans are to stay ahead of that possibility?
There are other picker tools that are similar to mine and each of us has a unique take on the problem. It doesn’t worry me. If someone wants to make their own version that’s cool.
I think it would be nice to have the other wheel selections available kind of like navigation tabs that show what state you are in with the same left right controls present. I don't think it would make the UI busier but it would look a little funky on mobile where I think the current set up might be a bit more advantageous.
All in all, this is really cool! I've used a few color pickers with color brewer (http://colorbrewer2.org/) being the most advanced. This seems to be right in the middle of simple and advanced color selections which is pretty sweet.
I like many things about it, but I think having it default to a red-green complimentary combo is a little iffy. Those of us who are colorblind (and we're 12% of the male population, and 0.5% of the female!) will have a lot of trouble seeing it clearly. Maybe just have it start on square instead? Or maybe have the line start out horizontally between blue and orange instead of vertically between red and green?
"It is sex-linked: genetic red-green color blindness affects males much more often than females, because the genes for the red and green color receptors are located on the X chromosome, of which males have only one and females have two. Females (XX) are red-green color blind only if both their X chromosomes are defective with a similar deficiency, whereas males (XY) are color blind if their single X chromosome is defective.[12]"
Interesting. Because one of the X-chromosomes is inactivated in female cells (which have XX). Otherwise it would lead to over expression of X-chromosome Genes (well most anyway).[1]
Color blindness is due to a defective gen that express one of the three kind of cones in the eye. Usually the cones more sensitive to middle length photons (M ~green) become closer to the cones more sensitive to long length photos (L ~red) and thus they can only discriminate colors in between thanks to the other short length cone (S ~blue), but the S cones are almost blind to these colors.
The thing is, these genes are in XY chromosome in males, and thus we only have a single copy for each of these genes. Women have two copies of each gene, so even if one goes wrong, the remaining one can express the cones.
Funny thing is woman with a defective gen usually just goes unnoticed, but the defective gen in some cases can express a fourth kind of cone with a peak sensitivity between M and L cones, allowing them to perceive colors that usual humans can't perceive.
It's gorgeous and easy to use. I especially appreciate inclusion of demo images and hex codes for easy copying. I'll probably refer to it from now on instead of googling "complementary colors" as I've been doing. Well done!
Just a heads up...on your homepage when hovering over the artist's name "Anastasiia Andriichuk" the highlight seems to add padding on each side which makes the line break in between their first and last name and the page gets jumpy. This is using chrome on my laptop.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 192 ms ] threadFirst: Don't get bogged down by random HN commenters' feature requests. Second: I have a feature request. I'd love a native version for Mac OS with a magnifying glass thing that allows me to select a color somewhere else on my screen, and then suggest complimentary colors. I'd gladly pay for that!
I have it set to CMD + Shift + C. Great to have it easily accessible
Then one could take a quick screenshot of their screen and just paste it into the web app.
1) Requesting a feature immediately after was intended as a joke.
2) It still doesn't contradict it. The first point merely advices the programmer to "not get overwhelmed by feature requests". Such an advice is not contradictory to making one from a formal logic perspective.
[whispers] colorsupplyyy.app and colorsupply.app is available for purchase :)
[Android 7.1.2, Chrome 73]
As someone who loves hacking together projects at times, I can see myself using this to take out the initial headache of picking color schemes.
I would add HSL colors and ability to download color scheme.
Thanks!
I think something needs to be done to better indicate "other wheel selections" (ie - to move to "square" or "analogous", etc) - while I discovered it fairly quickly, it wasn't as intuitive as I think it could have been.
Beyond that it's a great tool, and the pricing for the more advanced version is decent. That said, it wouldn't take much for someone to build something like this into say, a VSCode plugin or whatnot, so I'm curious what your plans are to stay ahead of that possibility?
Thanks for the feedback!
I would have put the arrows down where "complementary" and "analogous" and made them more visible rather than elongated and thin.
All in all, this is really cool! I've used a few color pickers with color brewer (http://colorbrewer2.org/) being the most advanced. This seems to be right in the middle of simple and advanced color selections which is pretty sweet.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Red-green_colo...
[1]https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/chromosome/X
(There are some genetic disorders where an organism have 3 of one chromosome. Trisomy its called.)
Which X is inactive is somewhat random however so it seems that it reduces the instance of color blindness.
The thing is, these genes are in XY chromosome in males, and thus we only have a single copy for each of these genes. Women have two copies of each gene, so even if one goes wrong, the remaining one can express the cones.
Funny thing is woman with a defective gen usually just goes unnoticed, but the defective gen in some cases can express a fourth kind of cone with a peak sensitivity between M and L cones, allowing them to perceive colors that usual humans can't perceive.
This one is nicer-looking for palettes, though, and has more functionalities :)