[HN Gopher] Show HN: Paletter - Create Professional Color Palett...
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Show HN: Paletter - Create Professional Color Palettes from a
Single Color
Author : maxsavin
Score : 72 points
Date : 2021-04-27 14:13 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.paletter.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.paletter.app)
| michaelbuckbee wrote:
| Note: this is a downloadable app for MacOS and I too was fooled
| by the autoplay video.
| cosmodisk wrote:
| This kind of thing has been on my todo list for years. I should
| do it some day.
| jensenbox wrote:
| Is there a specific reason this needs to be a program I download
| rather than just a website?
| maxsavin wrote:
| At least for Mac, people have completely different UI/UX
| expectations for a website and an app. Designers tend to be
| pretty picky about their tools.
| dljsjr wrote:
| I can't find any copy on the MAS listings or on the website that
| describes the differences between Paletter and Paletter Lite.
| Even just a feature matrix would be good.
| maxsavin wrote:
| Very good point, can't believe I missed that.
|
| I have it inside Paletter Lite app.. have a screenshot for you
| here: https://imgur.com/a/CJvf0fh
| smoldesu wrote:
| This looks nice, but I don't think I'd want to pay $10 for a
| color picker, especially one that would only work on my Mac...
| maxsavin wrote:
| What kind of features would you want for ten dollars?
| smoldesu wrote:
| I think 10 dollars is a lot to ask for a color picker when
| there are lots of established and free online options (Adobe
| Kolor, Coolers, etc.). If you could match the featureset of
| those programs with some sort of cloud-saving
| functionality/library for my palette, I'd probably go for it.
| Especially if it has a Linux-native frontend like GTK, I'd
| end up using it pretty frequently.
|
| Your call though, I'm just a guy who uses software.
| maxsavin wrote:
| Thanks. Paletter's feature set goes quite beyond what the
| mainstream tools offer, but maybe that needs to be more
| clear.
|
| Cloud palettes are probably coming. As for Linux, would be
| a tough call since most designers are on Mac and Windows.
| pcmaffey wrote:
| Why are online color palettes always 5 colors? It seems...
| arbitrary.
| maxsavin wrote:
| Completely arbitrary
| maxsavin wrote:
| Hey folks! Loving the comments on trying to use the screenshot. I
| thought it would be really nice to have a full size demo of the
| product rather than a scaled down graphic - but it turns out
| there could be a downside!
|
| Happy to answer any and all of your questions!
| programmarchy wrote:
| The app looks great! I appreciate the native Mac design, and the
| tab picker at the top is well done.
|
| The intro video was helpful to see the app in action, but it was
| hard for me to understand the actual process of how I would
| "create a palette from a single color". It might be helpful to
| have more of a tutorial video with voice over that walks through
| starting with a color, and getting to a full palette.
|
| The tagline of creating a palette from a single color is very
| compelling to me (as a developer with a modicum of design
| talent), but I was confused/overwhelmed by all the options and it
| was hard for me to piece together what was happening in the
| preview video.
| daniel-thompson wrote:
| The product looks interesting. The website is pretty aggressive
| about trying to open the App Store.
|
| What is the difference between the Lite version and the paid
| version?
| maxsavin wrote:
| Thanks... good things happen when the end user is on the App
| Page :P
|
| I am going to outline it on the next website.. for now, it's
| present in the Upgrade tab on Paletter Lite
|
| Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/CJvf0fh
| tobr wrote:
| Just going by what I see in the video, I get the impression that
| the color palettes are generated in RGB space? I think you should
| at least support Lab if you want to call the app professional.
| maxsavin wrote:
| It supports RGB, LRGB, HSL, HCL and LAB (for now :)
| sorcix wrote:
| I actually tried to use the screenshot. Autoplay is disabled in
| my browser, I suppose it's easier to see that it's not a webapp
| when the video is playing.
| luke2m wrote:
| Linux support?
| maxsavin wrote:
| Not likely :| maybe a web product down the line - can suggest
| to sign up for company updates
| luke2m wrote:
| Thanks.
| willio58 wrote:
| Site isn't responding for me. Does anyone have a good
| accessibility-oriented color generator that makes actually good
| color combinations?
| smoldesu wrote:
| Coolors[1] has never failed me. It's got a great UI, great
| workflow and is totally free.
|
| [1] https://coolors.co
| maxsavin wrote:
| What device are you using?
| jimhefferon wrote:
| Sadly, I lack the ability to generate good palettes. I just have
| a hole in my brain where that ability should go. So a palette
| generator is no help, for me.
|
| Is there a good, reasonably active, site with a list of palettes
| that talented people were good enough to make Freely available? I
| used to go to kuler.adobe.com (spelling?) but I think it changed
| and I've since had trouble finding one that is as good.
| krsdcbl wrote:
| If i spare a tiny bit of advice, it would be this: There's a
| big misunderstanding about what makes a good palette, and color
| palette tools are largely the culprit.
|
| Creating a usable palettes has very little to do with the usual
| "find five colors that look good together" approach and is
| actually a much more tangible and technical process.
|
| You'll want to start with ONE color. Create a step of shades
| onto your background color & check it for possible needs of hue
| and saturation tweaks along the grading.
|
| Find a complementary dull, almost gray color and develop the
| same kinds of shade.
|
| You're mostly done now. It's often advisable to find a
| secondary, complementary color to go with it, but that's it
| pretty much it for the breadth of the palette you'll actually
| need in most ui design projects.
|
| Going off most of these typical 5c color palette proposals that
| look good on their own will almost never lead you to a good and
| foremost usable color scheme, it's nice to look at but the way
| these are used make it appear like you need half a dozen
| primary colors. What you'll actually want is one brand color
| and matching greyscale, and then work off the requirements of
| elements that need to stand out.
|
| Just like with typography, heavy limitation but subtle
| alterations of your palette is what leads to a good looking,
| coherent design.
| uxamanda wrote:
| Agree with you on all of your points. In case anyone is
| looking, https://coolors.co/generate is a good site for
| finding shades of a color (hover a color and go to the shade
| section).
| dillondoyle wrote:
| https://www.colourlovers.com/
|
| Though it's gotten ad spammy it seems
| jimhefferon wrote:
| Thank you. I've bookmarked it. (I am fine with ads; although
| it can be overdone, of course.)
|
| I'll mention that one thing that is appealing is that the
| license is clear. I use the palettes for some Freely-licensed
| projects and so I redistribute the materials. In many places
| it is hard to tell what is allowed (I have a number of times
| spent some effort tracking down a creator only to be
| eventually unable to get more than "It is free" for a license
| statement.)
| swyx wrote:
| here's my collection of color guides with some preselected
| colors: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-
| joy/blob/master/README.md#col...
| maxsavin wrote:
| thanks for adding Paletter :)
| maxsavin wrote:
| All you need is to pick a base color for your brand. Paletter
| will then generate different schemes and palettes for you based
| on that color. And you can play with it and explore :) I'm the
| same as you haha
| zachrose wrote:
| But it seems like there's a lot more that goes into making a
| palette specifically for user interfaces:
| https://design.gs.com/news/color
| maxsavin wrote:
| There's a difference, part of it is a matter of a taste,
| like picking a color for your band, part of is it logical,
| like accessibility, color psychology, etc.
|
| I'd say most people struggle with the taste part, and
| that's what Paletter helps with. The logical side of things
| can be learned quickly.
| jimhefferon wrote:
| Thank you. At the site I mentioned, I found that I would pick
| some palettes that I thought suited my needs, and found that
| they did not follow any of the standard patterns
| (complementary, etc.). So I came to the sense that the
| patterns are fine as far as they go, but that they do not go
| all the way.
| noughtme wrote:
| I commend the author on their entrepreneurialism. Not sure why
| this needs to be a native app. You can code up a web app to
| generate color palettes in about 20 minutes, which is a fun
| excercise. Or you can just google color palette generator:
|
| https://tailwind.ink
|
| https://huey.design
|
| https://www.tailwindshades.com
|
| https://tailwind.simeongriggs.dev
|
| https://javisperez.github.io/tailwindcolorshades/
|
| https://tailwind-color-picker.jessarcher.com
|
| Also, maybe consider hosting on Netlify or Vercel or Github
| Pages, or anything that doesn't require a server to spin up for a
| static site.
| halfmatthalfcat wrote:
| Also Adobe Color (https://color.adobe.com)
| maxsavin wrote:
| Honestly, half of the point was to have a native app. It
| changes the perception of the product, gives it a proper
| presence on your app dock, works offline, and has the system
| related features you would expect :)
|
| It also helps piggyback on the App Store for discovery.
| jjordan wrote:
| Great list. I use one that follows Material Design guidelines.
| It's called Material Design Palette Generator
| (http://mcg.mbitson.com/), and the source is on GitHub
| (https://github.com/mbitson/mcg).
| kogus wrote:
| I'll thrown in my personal favorite, Paletton. I am not
| affiliated with them in any way, just a happy user.
|
| https://paletton.com
| swyx wrote:
| here is my collection of more palette generators:
| https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#pal...
| mostly gotten off HN every time it comes up
| slig wrote:
| > You can code up a web app to generate color palettes in about
| 20 minutes, which is a fun excercise.
|
| I'd be really interested in seeing someone do that in 20
| minutes. If you ever decide to do that, please post here.
| noughtme wrote:
| Alright, maybe a bit more than 20 mins. It's ugly, it's
| rudimentary, but it works. Feel free to fork it. The
| color/palette generation functions can use some work and I am
| not a designer.
|
| Obviously it was a bit of a facetious comment, and props to
| the author for building a full iOS app. This is definitely
| not that.
|
| https://hn-color-palette-generator.netlify.app
|
| https://github.com/noughtme/color-palette/tree/main/src
|
| *I have a bunch of color related function code snippets I use
| for dataviz, so I did not write the utils file "from scratch"
| just now. Also chakra-ui is a great component library that
| helps with quick prototyping.
| ysavir wrote:
| This is actually very useful and tastefully done!
| Bookmarked!
| slig wrote:
| It's not ugly, and it works. Congrats on shipping and
| thanks for sharing!
| i_haz_rabies wrote:
| I bet I could code up a site that has a link to a different
| colour palette generator in 20 minutes.
| krsdcbl wrote:
| Designer here, actually a big fan of the desktop software
| approach. I tend to keep all my ressources as local as possible
| and don't really like working off webapps and being account &
| online bound in my process. I guess that's a matter of taste,
| but I'm really happy seeing this project pop up.
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