[HN Gopher] Show HN: Colorvote.io - ranking all sRGB web colors ...
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       Show HN: Colorvote.io - ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
        
       Author : gcuth
       Score  : 225 points
       Date   : 2022-07-11 09:05 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.colorvote.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.colorvote.io)
        
       | miqueturner wrote:
       | This ranking is not useful. Color is appreciated or not depending
       | on context. This ranking has no context.
        
         | jbmny wrote:
         | Fun idea, but I agree. I was greeted with a shade of cyan and a
         | shade of lavender. Apples and oranges.
        
         | Majestic121 wrote:
         | I was going to comment that it's a joke project, so there is no
         | need for usefulness, but then I realized your comment might be
         | a joke comment and I'm lost in confusion now
        
       | ralusek wrote:
       | 2 colors appear on both best and worst. Each lists a maximum of 5
       | colors. That should be enough to stop the experiment right there,
       | unless your goal is to find the most controversial colors.
       | 
       | The takeaway seems to be that color preferences are highly
       | subjective to the point that you might just be getting noise.
       | 
       | Also how is it that people are even seeing the same colors for
       | this to have happened? Even with birthday problem seems unlikely
       | that two of the exact same hex colors would end up on the two
       | very short lists. Are you sure you're shuffling these?
        
       | NazakiAid wrote:
       | Whoops! Left Dark Reader on which has caused my votes to be based
       | on the wrong colours
        
       | bil7 wrote:
       | awesome. Maybe make the ranks and wtf buttons more visible.
        
         | xiconfjs wrote:
         | Thanks, I clicked about 50 to 100 times and waiting for a final
         | result...
        
       | TrickyRick wrote:
       | Currently #d8e3a8 is the 4th best but also the second worst.
       | Likewise #cce0c9 is the 5th best and 3rd worst. Has there been
       | fewer than 10 colors voted on or what gives?
        
         | manquer wrote:
         | It is more likely that votes are very thinly spread out that
         | any color with some votes would surface
        
       | qainsights wrote:
       | qq: How are the initial color codes getting generated? Is it from
       | app.js? Please clarify. Thanks!
        
       | beeskneecaps wrote:
       | Excited to see some results from this. I was disappointed that
       | there was no real payoff as an end user who voted. Any way to see
       | the current overall status of like the top 100?
        
       | aetherspawn wrote:
       | People would probably vote more if they had to vote at least 5
       | times to see the ranks, i.e. say "3 more votes to see ranks" in
       | top center, and then pop up the ranks automatically.
       | 
       | I don't think anyone would be mad.
        
         | iso1631 wrote:
         | I voted 15 times and no results
        
           | tgv wrote:
           | Look for "RANKS" on the bottom of the page...
        
             | OJFord wrote:
             | And then click it (even though it's the one area of the
             | page that _doesn 't_ have a cursor:pointer (took me some
             | time too, even after coming back here to check comments)).
        
         | kortex wrote:
         | Here I am clicking color after color like a dunce, wondering
         | when I get to see the ranking. After 20-30 or so clicks I
         | finally notice the ultra-tiny-low-contrast "Ranks" text.
         | 
         | In my defense I'm outside with a ton of glare...
        
           | ryantgtg wrote:
           | I didn't even know I was voting on anything during my first
           | three clicks. "Choose a color" doesn't equate to "vote on a
           | color" in my mind. I thought I was "choosing a color" to see
           | its rank (and I didn't get why it was showing me two on the
           | page). I must be the lowest common denominator in this case.
        
           | allendoerfer wrote:
           | So people with the worst vision have the biggest say in what
           | is the best color.
        
       | viggity wrote:
       | I wrote this blog post many many moons ago, but it'll give you
       | the optimal color (black or white) for any given
       | color/background. Should be quick and easy conversion from c# to
       | javascript.
       | 
       | http://blog.nitriq.com/BlackvsWhiteText.aspx
        
       | heliophobicdude wrote:
       | #988edc Appears as fifth best and as third worst
       | 
       | https://imgur.com/a/jZRQyt3
        
       | yreg wrote:
       | Reminds me a bit of Colourlovers[0]. That website is
       | unfortunately rather bloated though.
       | 
       | Obviously, the best color is #BADA55
       | 
       | [0] - https://www.colourlovers.com/colors/most-loved/all-
       | time/meta
        
       | bhouston wrote:
       | I think that if there is voting, one should sort of do some type
       | of spreading algorithm where the color you vote on, is sort of a
       | much weaker vote for the surrounding colors.
       | 
       | There is just too many colours, especially in this color space,
       | and it is sort of hard for humans to really differentiate them.
       | Thus spread out the vote based on average human visual perception
       | differentiability capabilities.
       | 
       | Also this color space (R x B x G box color space) spends too many
       | bits on low intensity and high intensity colors. When a color is
       | near white or black, we can not easily tell the hues apart.
       | 
       | A much better color space to vote on would be something akin to
       | the Pantone color list or paint swatches. Way less colors but
       | still roughly covering the whole color space.
        
         | elil17 wrote:
         | They're already about 1/500th of the way through the color
         | space.
        
         | spookthesunset wrote:
         | > Also this color space (R x B x G box color space) spends too
         | many bits on low intensity and high intensity colors.
         | 
         | Isn't that what the gamma is for?
        
           | bhouston wrote:
           | Yes! sRGB includes a gamma transform already. You can go much
           | further though.
        
         | bestouff wrote:
         | Also this depends on the color calibration of your computer and
         | monitor chain, so merging adjacent colors would effectively be
         | a good idea.
        
           | johnmaguire wrote:
           | I think there is probably a bias (to your brain) based on the
           | last two colors shown as well.
           | 
           | Similar to those "these boxes/squares are the same color"
           | illusions.
        
             | bhouston wrote:
             | I believe that illusion is based on our visual processor's
             | reliance on local contrast in order to adjust the perceived
             | true color to the inferred lighting conditions. So local
             | adjacency information here is what is being used, rather
             | than just temporal recently.
        
         | brudgers wrote:
         | Picking a color from a pallet of similar colors is explicitly
         | rejecting the nearby colors on the swatch.
         | 
         | It is exactly the opposite of a weak vote for nearby colors.
         | 
         | Of course, "nearby colors" depends on which axis (or axes) of
         | the color space is/are changing, the rates of change, and what
         | is the criterion for ordering the aspects of color.
         | 
         | Historically, voting on colors is a strong tradition in color
         | science.
         | 
         | Because color is a property of human perception not a property
         | of the external world...turn out the lights and the apple isn't
         | red any more.
        
           | tshaddox wrote:
           | > Picking a color from a pallet of similar colors is
           | explicitly rejecting the nearby colors on the swatch.
           | 
           | > It is exactly the opposite of a weak vote for nearby
           | colors.
           | 
           | Surely that is demonstrably false in cases where you could
           | experimentally prove that two adjacent colors are below the
           | voter's threshold of color discrimination.
        
             | brudgers wrote:
             | To riff on Hume, all colors are indistinguishable in total
             | darkness.
             | 
             | Or to be Wittgensteinian, that's not how "of different
             | colors" is used in ordinary language.
             | 
             | In terms of additive color science, different combinations
             | of RGB (or XYZ) light can produce the same color
             | perception.
             | 
             | In part because the human visual system (green cones) has a
             | negative response to a particular frequency band and
             | additive light can't have negative green values.
             | 
             | At the edge of current color science is accounting for
             | tetra-chromatic perception...not to be confused with tetra-
             | chromatic response which occurs in about 1% of humans.
             | 
             | Which is all to say that there's a lot of baggage to a
             | logical argument based on voting.
        
               | tshaddox wrote:
               | I'm not sure how any of that contradicts what I said,
               | which is simply that when someone selects one option from
               | among multiple options that they themselves cannot
               | distinguish from one another, that does not constitute
               | explicit rejection of the options which were not
               | selected.
        
       | enahs-sf wrote:
       | This was oddly satisfying and I voted on a bunch of colors.
       | Definitely a bias towards my personal preferences and also what I
       | think would be useable for websites but fun idea! Will be great
       | to see the resulting data.
        
       | mensetmanusman wrote:
       | There are colors our eyes can see that no monitor can output.
        
       | bulbosaur123 wrote:
       | They should create a little "status map" which shows the entire
       | palette of all available sRGB colors and fills out those who have
       | been voted on.
       | 
       | That would at least make it interesting to keep voting and seeing
       | the map fill out.
        
       | google234123 wrote:
       | I thought this would be a ranking using crawled data on the
       | web... kind of disappointed.
        
         | 867-5309 wrote:
         | note to self
        
         | akerr wrote:
         | 1. White
         | 
         | 2. Black
         | 
         | 3. Colours (mostly blue)
         | 
         | Still disappointed?
        
           | emsixteen wrote:
           | Yep.
        
           | mcv wrote:
           | 1. White
           | 
           | 2. Light grey
           | 
           | 3. Some other light grey
           | 
           | ...
           | 
           | 235. dark grey
           | 
           | 236. slightly bluish dark grey
           | 
           | 237. slightly yellowish dark grey
           | 
           | ...
        
             | GekkePrutser wrote:
             | Of course, but you could ignore all the obvious ones.
             | 
             | Keeping track of this would also show interesting trends
             | over time. Do web designers favour 'hard' colours or
             | pastels? Do they favour blue or less melatonin-generating
             | colours. Stuff like that.
        
       | gitgud wrote:
       | Nice idea, but the _name_ doesn 't quite fit the _game_... I
       | would expect to be able to vote for my favourite color, this is
       | more like a  "color election"
        
         | akerr wrote:
         | ...and what would you do in a colour election?
        
           | [deleted]
        
           | scheesman wrote:
           | Pick the option that least sucks amongst options selected by
           | someone other than myself.
        
             | mcv wrote:
             | Vote for the lesser ugly.
        
         | sweezyjeezy wrote:
         | That won't give you a ranking in practice - you'd get 90% of
         | colours receiving 0 votes so there's no way to distinguish
         | them. I think the output of this game would be more interesting
         | to analyse.
        
       | andsoitis wrote:
       | takes too long to vote.
        
       | layer8 wrote:
       | Two comments:
       | 
       | - I don't think the ordering relation is acyclical if no specific
       | usage scenario is given for the color.
       | 
       | - After grading a dozen of color pairs or so and then looking at
       | the rankings, I noticed that I had Smart Invert Colors turned on
       | and had thus voted on the inverted colors. (I noticed because it
       | seemed unlikely to me that most of the highest-ranking colors
       | would be shades of brown. ;))
        
       | anonymous_sorry wrote:
       | Huh, stumbled upon a strange visual effect. I got #0cc3bf (sorta
       | cyan) above #acc2e0. When looking at the cyan, the other colour
       | appeared lighter shade of blue/cyan in my peripheral vision. When
       | I then looked straight at the lower colour it turned lilac.
       | Almost pink to begin with. The effect was quite striking
       | initially, to the extent that I suspected the page was varying
       | the colour.
       | 
       | I'm on mobile. The phone was perhaps a little over a foot from my
       | face. It's a sunny day in a room with a South facing window. I
       | have a warmish LED light on (3000K).
        
       | irrational wrote:
       | Every one was easy to pick my preferred color until I got to
       | 824268 and 199989. I honestly couldn't choose which I preferred.
       | I sat there for awhile trying to decide when the colors changed.
       | Is it on a timer or did I accidentally choose one of the colors,
       | even though I don't think I did?
        
       | game-of-throws wrote:
       | This is a perfect example of why we need ranked choice voting. I
       | think #BD60E2 is best, but due to its unpopularity I'm forced to
       | vote #BD60E1 if I want my vote to matter.
        
         | LeonB wrote:
         | Die hard #BD60E2 voters are splitting the vote and giving an
         | advantage to non #BD60E1 voters.
        
         | spiderfarmer wrote:
         | What would be a suitable algorithm?
        
           | PaulHoule wrote:
           | You'd need some algorithm that works on continuous variables,
           | that is, #44E205 should rank closely to #44E106. Somehow you
           | need to learn a function over rgb sampling only some of the
           | points. Maybe you average over votes for colors that are
           | close to a color in rgb space.
           | 
           | 16 million collars aren't that many compared to large-scale
           | internet systems. If you got 160 million+ votes you'd start
           | getting meaningful results without any averaging.
        
         | tgv wrote:
         | Idk if you're serious or not, but this site actually does
         | ranked voting: you don't get to choose your favorite color out
         | of 17M, but you rank pairs. The problem here is that you can
         | vote a variable number of times. I guess it's possible to come
         | up with different algorithms to determine the winner.
        
       | mcv wrote:
       | Based on the title, I imagined crawling all websites and counting
       | how many pixels used each colour.
        
         | irrational wrote:
         | I bet the most popular would be ones where one or more of the
         | RGB are 00 or FF.
        
           | BudaDude wrote:
           | I was thinking the same thing. But they could exclude them
           | since they are not real colors.
        
             | croes wrote:
             | Why is FF0000 not a real color or FF5687?
        
         | drewzero1 wrote:
         | Ultimately, wouldn't that just see which is the most popular
         | background color? Pixel-for-pixel the background takes up the
         | largest percentage of screen space on most websites.
         | 
         | Though I would also be interested to see what the most popular
         | background colors are. My money's on white and off-white.
        
           | kadoban wrote:
           | You could, instead of counting pixel-by-pixel, count once per
           | specified color. Eg count #000000 once per css rule it's
           | specified in, once per image it's used in, etc.
        
         | GekkePrutser wrote:
         | Yeah me too..
         | 
         | That would have made a lot more sense than what they're doing.
         | I'd really like to see the outcome of that. Not this random
         | comparison.
        
           | michaelmior wrote:
           | > random comparison
           | 
           | While certainly different individuals are going to vote on
           | colors differently, I doubt that the aggregate results would
           | resemble randomness.
        
             | GekkePrutser wrote:
             | I mean random as in the two colours are selected at random.
             | 
             | I think it's not really relevant to select colours in a
             | void. Colours are good for a purpose. This is especially
             | relevant on websites. I love yellow but I would _hate_ it
             | when it 's used for text on a white background. Stuff like
             | that.
        
         | permo-w wrote:
         | my thoughts too. while this page is interesting, I'd be much
         | more interested to know the results of what you describe
         | 
         | it would be fairly easily to implement, although probably quite
         | expensive in either cost or time
        
           | hbbio wrote:
           | Would be much more interesting indeed.
           | 
           | Could use sampling and still get reliable estimates?
        
             | permo-w wrote:
             | how would you sample reliably though?
             | 
             | I'd imagine you get white and black in one or two, but then
             | what?
             | 
             | I bet some pretty interesting graphs could be drawn with
             | the results
        
       | tgv wrote:
       | The contrast with the text that shows the hex code seems to
       | interfere with my judgement. Perhaps leaving out the text, or
       | showing it in smaller text on the bottom could help a tiny bit.
       | But I suspect monitor quality/calibration has a larger effect.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | JansjoFromIkea wrote:
       | Presumably the text color will distort the preferences? You're
       | not deciding you prefer a color, you're deciding you prefer a
       | background color for a white font.
       | 
       | At the moment it seems to be always white, maybe if it's always
       | the opposite color on the color wheel that might offset it? Or
       | maybe just have the text on a white card on the edge of the
       | screen so you can focus on the color itself?
        
         | kryptn wrote:
         | After a few votes the text hex code disappeared for me so I was
         | only voting on the colors.
        
           | erichurkman wrote:
           | I found myself voting against colors more than I was voting
           | for colors. Anything wins against the harshness of
           | chartreuse, except a somehow _worse_ chartreuse.
        
       | ivanhoe wrote:
       | It's a nice toy, but I doubt its practical value as in design you
       | deal with color palettes, not standalone colors. I might be
       | wrong, but my gut feeling is that "the most popular" color
       | wouldn't necessarily end up as a part of the most popular
       | palette, or even in top 5.
        
         | jstummbillig wrote:
         | Look, guy. Okay? Listen up here.
         | 
         | > But which one of these motherfuckers is the best color?
         | 
         | > Together, we've voted on 0.27834177017211914% of all colors.
         | 
         | > (Don't worry, we'll get there.)
         | 
         | Good news is, you are completely right and the author agrees.
         | It is a joke. Which brings us to the bad news -- but it's a
         | monday which is hard enough so I'll let it slide.
        
         | throwingrocks wrote:
         | I don't think the goal is to provide practical value.
        
       | simplify wrote:
       | It' a fun idea, but colors are so contextual that putting them
       | next to each other for votes gives a pretty useless data set.
        
       | mgdlbp wrote:
       | HN top bar colours by popularity:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors
        
         | cozzyd wrote:
         | I see I'm not the only one to pick c0fefe as a joke...
        
         | themikesanto wrote:
         | Wait, you can change the top bar color? That's news to me.
        
           | shultays wrote:
           | Only available for premium users
           | 
           | (Joking aside it is behind a karma limit for some reason)
        
           | drewzero1 wrote:
           | At certain karma thresholds, different things unlock. There's
           | a list somewhere but I'm not sure if it's up-to-date.[0] It
           | looks like top bar color can be changed once you hit 250
           | karma.
           | 
           | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=853964
        
             | fuckcensorship wrote:
             | List of undocumented HN features:
             | 
             | https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
        
               | drewzero1 wrote:
               | That's the one I was thinking of, but couldn't find.
               | Thanks!
        
             | themikesanto wrote:
             | Ah cool, thanks! As someone who mostly lurks, I look
             | forward to engaging with some of these features in a few
             | decades time.
        
         | mgdlbp wrote:
         | No, I lied! It's not sorted!
         | 
         | The observations of the other comments would be strange indeed,
         | if it were. Looking back through old discussions, it turns out
         | I'd misremembered a mix of speculating comments as fact. Most
         | conclusively, the order is now completely different to when the
         | page was discussed last month:
         | 
         | https://web.archive.org/web/20220615213203/https://news.ycom...
         | 
         | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31759722)
        
         | sph wrote:
         | What's the story with that green being the second most popular?
         | 
         | Would be nice to see percentages/total users. It might be only
         | used by 5 accounts of the same person.
        
           | 4gotunameagain wrote:
           | Green is the official h4xx0r color x)
        
           | sebmellen wrote:
           | For me, green is super useful. If the top bar is green, I'm
           | logged in. If it's orange, I'm logged out.
           | 
           | My top bar color is #ccff99.
        
             | mhb wrote:
             | People log out?
        
             | M3L0NM4N wrote:
             | Pro-tip, that also works with all other colors except
             | green.
        
               | sebmellen wrote:
               | Fair point, but I do think that given the "traffic-light"
               | connotation, green indicating a "logged-in state" makes
               | sense.
        
               | michaelmior wrote:
               | All colors that are sufficiently distinct from the
               | default that is.
        
         | WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
         | I mean, default is pretty interesting that it's at the top.
        
           | blululu wrote:
           | Even more bizarre is that 15-25 spots are mostly different
           | hues of orange. A bit improbable to have that many land so
           | close.
        
       | eganist wrote:
       | Why are you specifically capturing the pixel size of the
       | viewport? and likewise the user agent separately from request
       | headers?
        
         | Kiro wrote:
         | What is your comment referring to?
        
           | Aachen wrote:
           | What network requests the site makes, presumably. On mobile
           | though so I can't verify my assumption as easily
        
             | eganist wrote:
             | Yes. Here's the json for one sample post request:
             | {          "winner": "#e28b20",          "useragent":
             | "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)
             | AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
             | Chrome/103.0.5060.114 Safari/537.36 Edg/103.0.1264.49",
             | "loser": "#997e79",          "time": "20220711T161234",
             | "inner-width": 3840,          "uuid":
             | "4f076d53-5d84-4b4d-923e-803db7ca6150",          "color-a":
             | "#e28b20",          "color-b": "#997e79",          "inner-
             | height": 2040         }
        
       | ollifi wrote:
       | https://colornames.org/ Has 17.9% colors named already.
        
         | vesinisa wrote:
         | Might work as a joke but several of those colors will be
         | indistinguishable to human eye, yet have completely different
         | crowd-sourced names.
         | 
         | Or - could you ever tell the difference between "Amateur
         | Rockstar Bright Pink" (#ff1aab) and "Pink Soul Of Heart"
         | (#ff1bab) even if your life depended on it?
         | 
         | The fact that 24-bit RGB can represent 16 million colors does
         | not mean our vision is capable of telling such number of colors
         | apart from each other. Creating a coherent and concise naming
         | system for _all_ them could be an interesting (and perhaps
         | quite challenging) technical task, but I don 't believe crowd-
         | sourcing those will yield any usable results. Or - how many
         | colors with "poop" in their name do you think is acceptable?
         | https://colornames.org/search/results/?type=partial&query=po...
         | 
         | And how about "asdf" (the first four letters on the home row of
         | a QWERTY keyboard - an age-old internet troll version of
         | "foobar")?
         | https://colornames.org/search/results/?type=partial&query=as...
        
           | bufferout wrote:
           | Look at the bigger picture: given the data is open, if you
           | wanted a solid depiction of what colour best represents
           | "poop" you could average those results.
        
           | ollifi wrote:
           | The non-joke use case could be memorizing / communicating
           | bunch of colors. Those human readable names are lot easier to
           | remember than hex values.
        
             | vesinisa wrote:
             | Not sure if "Asdfgtyuhijokl'" is easier to memorize than
             | #33-51-B5 .. :) https://colornames.org/color/3351b5
             | 
             | The problem with anything crowd-sourced is always that
             | without moderation the results are garbage, and moderation
             | is generally expensive or at least requires passionate
             | volunteers. Crowd-sourcing 16 million unique color names is
             | bound to be problematic and very difficult to moderate.
             | 
             | I actually gave this a second thought as a technical
             | problem. The CSS defines 140 color names. It would probably
             | not be infeasible to crowd-source / invent 4,096 base color
             | names spread out _exactly_ evenly across the 3-dimensional
             | RGB space (e.g.  "maroon", "deep sky blue", "slate gray"
             | and so on.) If we could then further name 64 "tints" (like
             | "reddish", "dark bluish", "purple hazed"), one could
             | express about 250,000 colors with base color + tint pairs
             | (like "reddish deep sky blue" or "purple hazed maroon").
             | This should be already sufficient for expressing almost all
             | colors normally needed for UI designs etc.
             | 
             | If even more fidelity was somehow desired, one could then
             | add one more of the 64 tints from the same vocabulary with
             | some qualifier, like 'slightly'. So e.g. "slighly purple
             | hazed dark bluish slate gray". This system could express
             | the full RGB space, and there would be always possibility
             | to find a closeby very similar color with shorter name -
             | e.g. "slight dark bluish reddish deep sky blue" => "reddish
             | deep sky blue" => "deep sky blue".
        
               | ollifi wrote:
               | You mean "Easy To Remeber Blue"?
               | 
               | Joking aside I agree with you that it is useless to name
               | 16 million colors but I appreciate the futile effort.
        
       | throwaway290 wrote:
       | Colors is where X > Y > Z doesn't mean X > Z.
        
       | whoomp12342 wrote:
       | this makes me feel like I am at the eye doctor.
        
       | gauddasa wrote:
       | I clicked on the right door about 10 times and the left door
       | about 10 times but did not receive any car or a goat in any of
       | them.
        
       | overlordalex wrote:
       | The hex codes cannot be selected/copied out which was
       | disappointing, but perhaps worse is that the hex codes slowly
       | fade away completely!
       | 
       | I only noticed the first time because there was a gorgeous
       | gold/purple combination that I wanted to save, which makes me
       | think there might be another layer of combination that can be
       | saved which is worst/best combinations of colour.
        
       | mysterydip wrote:
       | Do they strictly increase vote on only the hues shown? Having a
       | weighted multiplier of the vote on nearby hues that decreases the
       | further away you go would reach a conclusion quicker.
        
       | lukaszkups wrote:
       | What am I looking on? How to see the rank of the colors?
        
       | forgetfulness wrote:
       | I felt my vote was very influenced by how many times I had
       | already seen that hue. I probably would have voted more often for
       | certain shades of green if I hadn't seen a slight variation of
       | them three times already, for instance.
        
       | zachrip wrote:
       | Just a heads up, if you're using any dark mode extension you'll
       | want to disable it for this site. (op, probably worth getting
       | your site added to the global dark mode list)
        
         | 867-5309 wrote:
         | you'll need to explain why
        
           | boredpudding wrote:
           | Dark mode extension adjusts colors. Which... is a bit not
           | great on a website that ranks colors.
        
             | 867-5309 wrote:
             | it was working fine with android dark mode
        
               | emi2k01 wrote:
               | > dark mode extensions These change the css colors. It's
               | not referring to the OS color scheme preference
        
       | sangupta wrote:
       | Curious to understand why are you capturing inner width/height
       | and the user-agent as part of JSON payload to server?
        
       | nixpulvis wrote:
       | Cool idea, horrible implementation. I have no better suggestions
       | other than to reduce the color space however...
        
       | Philip-J-Fry wrote:
       | My votes are based on which colours burn my retinas the least.
        
         | Aachen wrote:
         | I'm voting nearly the exact opposite. Hadn't thought of it this
         | "burning" way (on mobile it's smaller, maybe that's why?) but
         | bright colors are fun colors for me.
         | 
         | Mobile vs desktop, OLED votes vs. LCD votes, indoors vs
         | sunlight etc. would also be interesting to compare.
        
       | ryanbrunner wrote:
       | Voting on all 16 million is a cool concept, but given that this
       | is probably going to be popular for only a day or so, probably
       | not achievable. From your own ranks, only 0.27% of colours have
       | been voted on at all, and most likely the majority of those voted
       | on have a single vote.
        
         | runnerup wrote:
         | Personally I think that's okay. I also think it might make
         | sense for any summary to lump colors together using clustering
         | and averaging the group using a colorspace like Oklab.
         | 
         | There's lots of room for different types of analyses here!
        
           | ryanbrunner wrote:
           | That's a super cool idea! You could have it adapt so that
           | depending on the number of votes the clusters get smaller so
           | it returns the most specific data it can.
        
       | brian_herman wrote:
       | Where is the results?
        
       | andy_ppp wrote:
       | I think nearly 17 million colours is too many! Maybe grouping
       | close colours could be better.
       | 
       | The "best" colours also seem really bad, I wonder if what they
       | appear next to gives false results. Still, interesting idea!
        
       | excitom wrote:
       | Huh, #987fb1 is in both Best and Worst lists (at the time I
       | viewed the ranks).
        
       | qurashee wrote:
       | I'm more interested in the algorithm behind the pairing. I wonder
       | if it's randomly pairing colours or using something similar to
       | adaptive comparative judgement.
        
       | codingdave wrote:
       | I suspect people are choosing more because of hue and undertones
       | than strictly on RGB colors. It would be more interesting to
       | aggregate the results up into more general conclusions - do
       | people like pastels or earth tones better? How bright of a color
       | is too bright before people stop voting for it? How dark?
        
         | mikkergp wrote:
         | I've been into 70's colorscapes recently, so when given the
         | chance I vote for earthy tones, then beyond that I may pick
         | colors I know i like, or based on emotional gut reaction, it
         | depends how hard the gut reaction hits me. I'd be curious to
         | have these stats as well. I'd also be curious to know, how
         | often do I pick the colors I think are my favorite. Purple is
         | my favorite color, but it doesn't appear often in earthy tones
         | and I think I would prefer an earthy or washed out orange or
         | green to a washed out purple.
        
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