[HN Gopher] Show HN: Explore Websites by Chosen Color
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       Show HN: Explore Websites by Chosen Color
        
       I crawled lots of websites and extracted their color palettes
       (primary, secondary, etc) to build a searchable collection of
       website colors!  It was a fun side-project and I learned a lot
       about color theory. Let me know what you think and what features
       you would like to see :)  If you have any questions about the tech
       behind it, feel free to ask in the comments. Feedback is also
       greatly appreciated.
        
       Author : ro_dobre
       Score  : 62 points
       Date   : 2024-05-31 02:27 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (themefinder.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (themefinder.io)
        
       | getwiththeprog wrote:
       | Finally, I can see who is using this years Pantone style guide!
        
       | toataziuatestam wrote:
       | Reeeally loving this one, great job !!
        
       | unittester wrote:
       | Great Stuff, I could imagine this being handy when looking for
       | design inspiration.
        
         | ro_dobre wrote:
         | Haha, thanks! That's exactly what I had in mind when building.
         | 
         | I've also collected what fonts and typography styles different
         | websites use so I'm looking to create a visual for that as
         | well, thanks for the feedback!
        
       | amadeuspagel wrote:
       | Amazing. Maybe you can show the chosen color as the background of
       | the hex code?
        
         | ro_dobre wrote:
         | That's a great suggestion, will definitely do that in the next
         | iteration. Thanks a lot!
        
       | GrumpyNl wrote:
       | I like it and im gonna use it, great for inspiration and color
       | schemes.
        
         | ro_dobre wrote:
         | Love to hear that, let me know what other features you'd like
         | to see :)
        
       | AnnaKonda wrote:
       | Haha, this project is amazing! Can it load more websites?
        
       | araes wrote:
       | It's a neat idea, and bookmarked it just for ideas on possible
       | designs.
       | 
       | Weird parts though. Does not ever seem to return a website I have
       | ever heard of. And (although it may have nothing to do with you,
       | and everything to do with the modern web) a lot look rather
       | algorithmically designed.
       | 
       | Plus, there's sites like these people:
       | https://www.beltnbags.com.au/ that register on every pure tone
       | and near pure-tone search because they're listed as (#0000ff,
       | 24.9%, #f7f7ff, 13.0%, #f7f7f7, 13.0%, #00ff00, 24.2%, #ff0000,
       | 24.9%)
       | 
       | However, if you go to their website, I don't know what you're
       | scraping, cause it sure does not "look" like its 1/4 red, 1/4
       | green, 1/4 blue, and 1/4 of dueling eggshell white. It looks
       | white, black, teeny red labels, and lots of brown clothes.
        
       | D_R_Farrell wrote:
       | I wonder if you open up this to also deconstruct color variables
       | (-var) into their respective hex codes if you'd get more results
       | of sites that use design systems.
       | 
       | Have you explored that much at all?
       | 
       | Cool project!
        
       | pvaldes wrote:
       | Very useful to spot webs with a particular theme, blue webs,
       | sunny webs... but also all webs from a particular logo or party
       | that often use the same palettes again and again as brand image.
       | 
       | Allowing to chose proportions of colors could be even better.
       | 
       | Hypothetical example: Lets suppose that I'm a policeman. How much
       | percentage of black, white and red is in a classical svastika?.
       | Then browse the dark web for finding all webs that contain this
       | particular white, black and red in such combination
       | 
       | Other possibilities: I want to know if my [bank/company/chess
       | club] web is being cloned and used to criminal purposes without
       | my knowledge. My logo contains magenta, lime green and burnt
       | orange. Find me webs with this combination that aren't in a list
       | of official webs from my company. Even better, check it at real
       | time on email to spot scammers impersonating me on real time.
       | 
       | The applications are endless: I want to detect webs that sell
       | fake clones of my products; or find photos of pills of a
       | particular shade of blue. Or don't show me webs with a high
       | content in warm tones associated with porno images...
       | 
       | Yep, that could be a really revolutionary startup.
        
       | qingcharles wrote:
       | I was looking for neon green sites for inspiration... Google says
       | this site is now badware:
       | 
       | millionfollowersbootcamp[.]com
        
       | muratsu wrote:
       | This is really cool. We've recently built a website catalog
       | (https://www.rapidpages.com/inspire) and one of the difficult
       | choices we needed to make was whether to include images on the
       | site or not when extracting the color palettes. I'm curious if
       | you've also experimented with this?
        
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