I would say a couple of weeks, working maybe an hour a day?
so the hardest part was to build the palette login in Go.
Im not so good at it and it took me a lot of time, until I found out that someone had already built a palette logic in Go already, then everything was fine.
I really like that, that it's nice a idea to build palettes on related images. I thought you would have a special formula that matches words with specific colors!
What algorithm did you use for color extraction? I seem to getting colors with the correct hue, but too low saturation? (example: Ferrari)
You could also imagine to not show colors with very low saturation (ie. white/gray/blacks). I've previously used Colorific [1] which seems to address some of those things!
I'm also curious about the algorithm, since a search for "google" results in a palette that only features one color out of the company's primary-plus-green motif. Seems like backgrounds (white in the case of Google, black in the case of demotivational posters) are weighted a little too strongly, perhaps.
Another really good idea - I just sent this to some of our design guys and they love it. Having a link for specific results could be a great addition for sharing.
My only "critique" would be to make the hex codes copy/paste ready in the results. I like the links to dribble, but I'd really like to just be able to quickly copy/paste the hex codes.
Really cool! If it can help, I was searching "gluten free" and the very first result contains colors very very similar, almost indistinguishable: #E51C20 vs #EF1A21, and #F4F2EC vs #FFF
I think maybe there's a little too much averaging going on? I get a lot of muted colors and way more browns than expected. For example, try "America" or "France" or "China" (I actually first tried "murica") and you might expect to see pretty standard bright colors, but it's not so much the case. The query where I got exactly what I expected was "fabulous".
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
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 81.3 ms ] threadedit: Bing images does a way better job than google.
so the hardest part was to build the palette login in Go.
Im not so good at it and it took me a lot of time, until I found out that someone had already built a palette logic in Go already, then everything was fine.
What algorithm did you use for color extraction? I seem to getting colors with the correct hue, but too low saturation? (example: Ferrari)
You could also imagine to not show colors with very low saturation (ie. white/gray/blacks). I've previously used Colorific [1] which seems to address some of those things!
[1] http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/05/11/color-analysi...
My only "critique" would be to make the hex codes copy/paste ready in the results. I like the links to dribble, but I'd really like to just be able to quickly copy/paste the hex codes.
you should sign your work! Drop at least a link to your twitter at the bottom, this is a great tool.
I think maybe there's a little too much averaging going on? I get a lot of muted colors and way more browns than expected. For example, try "America" or "France" or "China" (I actually first tried "murica") and you might expect to see pretty standard bright colors, but it's not so much the case. The query where I got exactly what I expected was "fabulous".