Thanks for the link. This is definitely helpful as someone who is not a designer, but disappointed that it didn't go in more depth about how you _could_ use a color palette in UI color schemes.
to go with that article, the best advice for picking different shades of the same hue is to work in HSL color space rather than trying to use RGB. You'll sit there all day trying and failing to find colors that match in RGB.
The contrived example intentionally picks the worst colors for every element. Yellow for the background, really? Who is the author trying to fool? The generated five-color palette works absolutely fine. You just gotta use it right.
I don't know what I'm looking at or why and I think these combos are incredibly loud. But I love them. I'm not good at anything related to aesthetics. I still dress like a "unsponsored skater" (ref: New Girl) so I'm hardly worth listening too but I really like these. I hardly bookmark anything on my phone but I'm keeping this.
Meh. Most of these descriptions just seem like "lol random" low effort procedurally generated parody rather than something delightfully surprisingly precise
Unfortunately for whatever reason, i never quite figured out how to read/use a 5 color palette? Is it like on background, one foreground, one to highlight, one for the other highlight?
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 40.6 ms ] threadShow HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719288 - March 2020 (51 comments)
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https://github.com/adamfuhrer/colors.lol/pull/23
Good thing there were no brown fridges.. I felt the descriptions disconcertingly accurate.
- "undiagnosed light indigo".
- "sporocystic deep pink", where sporocyst means a resting cell that produces asexual plant spores.
- "biparous orangish", where biparous means birthing two young at a time.