Color Supply
Creative
color palette generator
SHOW HN2019
591points
106comments
#21of 2,195 in 2019
Top 1%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
38 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 15 critical, out of 72 comments about the project. Thread score +0.37.
Idea: 16 for, 5 againstDesign: 16 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Example images showing colors in use are very useful
From 4 comments
Including the example images was GENIUS. Love it.
ionforce on HNWonderful design. Example images are an awesome touch, quite useful! Feedback for mobile safari - it would be helpful if the wheel was fixed to the top of the window…
chewmieser on HNGreat job! This is the first time I'm able to find a nice color pattern so easily. The sample images are very helpful.
notafrog on HNThis is the most practical colour picker that I've seen. Puting the sample icons using the colours we select makes all the difference. Great work!
klhugo on HN
Simple, beautiful and easy to use
From 3 comments
It's gorgeous and easy to use. I especially appreciate inclusion of demo images and hex codes for easy copying. I'll probably refer to it from now on instead of googling…
esilver on HNThis is fantastic, and gets a lot of little things right. Just piling on at this point, but you can never have too many compliments. I really like the little added touches like…
elagost on HNThank you. This is very pleasant to use.
time0ut on HN
Live-updating icons apply colors right away
From 2 comments
The great thing this color picker provides that others don't is live-updating icons utilizing the colors. Awesome job!
umvi on HNLove it :-) Having the colour applied to things right away is really helpful, great idea!
petersonh on HN
Objections
Broken or stuck on mobile browsers
From 3 comments
looks nice! unfortunately when I try to select a color from the wheel, the line switches to a horizontal position (dark blue o----o bright orange) and gets stuck there :(…
uryga on HNThis is really great. I mostly do front-end web dev but I'm terrible with colours. Until now I've used adobe's color wheel thing even though I hate it's buggy guts. This looks…
ficklepickle on HNLooks cool, doesn't work. At least on my mobile Chrome on Android. I can only set a color once, then the black selectors just wiggle around in place whenever I choose a color.
k__ on HN
Red-green default is hard for colorblind users
From 2 comments
I like many things about it, but I think having it default to a red-green complimentary combo is a little iffy. Those of us who are colorblind (and we're 12% of the male…
onychomys on HNHi, great work, quick suggestions red<>green is the "ugliest" combination of complimentary colors, which creates quite a disturbance in the viewers eyes (you could do some…
Bouncingsoul1 on HN
Suggested complements are not truly complementary
From 2 comments
To be honest I don’t think any of the complimentary colours suggested by this are complimentary.
pushpop on HNThey don't appear to be complementary either. The complement to #ee4035 is in the cyan range (~5cf7fa). You can get this by hand. Convert #ee4035 to rgb(234, 64, 53). Subtract…
rhgg on HN
Wheel selection modes are not intuitive
From 2 comments
I have to say I like this - great design, easy to operate, etc. I think something needs to be done to better indicate "other wheel selections" (ie - to move to "square" or…
cr0sh on HNYeah, I didn't realize this too until I read the first comment. I would have put the arrows down where "complementary" and "analogous" and made them more visible rather than…
bb88 on HN
Requests
Enter a hex code as a starting color
From 2 comments
This is fantastic, and gets a lot of little things right. Just piling on at this point, but you can never have too many compliments. I really like the little added touches like…
elagost on HNgreat color picker, really love the preview images. the only thing missing for me is to have the possibility to specify a specific color in hex as a starting point: most of the…
alternize on HN
Native Mac app with screen color picker
From 1 comment
This looks awesome! Congrats on launching it. First: Don't get bogged down by random HN commenters' feature requests. Second: I have a feature request. I'd love a native version…
mikekij on HN
Upload images to pick colors from
From 2 comments
A quick and dirty way to make that ability easier (easier than creating a native app at least) would be to just offer a quick "paste or upload image here" section that then would…
jjeaff on HNI think this is a really attractive and useful tool. Great work! I'm not really the target market, I don't think. But my first thought as I was playing with it was "can I upload…
anthonyscompton on HN
HSL values and palette download
From 1 comment
This is perfect, thank you! I would add HSL colors and ability to download color scheme.
desireco42 on HN
Deep linking to saved colors
From 1 comment
deep linking would be great
snissn on HN
Questions
What does the blue dot on palettes mean
From 1 comment
Neat. What's the deal with the Blue Dot? Seems to indicate that somebody authored that palette. Why are some authored and others algorithmic?
edraferi on HN
What tools were used to build it
From 1 comment
This is design porn at its finest. Absolutely beautiful! What tools did you use to build this?
anonytrary on HN
Is there a mailing list
From 1 comment
I like the concept of how this works. Do you have a mailing list. I think I want to wait for a couple more color wheels. In any case: > "Ability to bookmark your favorite colors…
chiefalchemist on HN
Alternatives named
Paletton
From 1 comment
Quite nice. So far I've been using http://paletton.com/ - not identical, but similar functionality.
tszymczyszyn on HN
Adobe Color
From 1 comment
I like the usability with the arrow keys and the instantly changing examples, but the results do not convince me. You might want to take a look at the adobe color picker [1] to…
arendtio on HN
Sip color picker app
From 1 comment
Try https://sipapp.io/
markdown on HN
macOS Digital Color Meter
From 1 comment
If you'll accept the step of copying the values into the tool that figures out the complementary colors for you, macOS comes with Digital Color Meter, which will tell you the…
asnrk on HN
color.review
From 1 comment
From a few days ago, this is also excellent for exploring colours with accessible contrast from each other: https://color.review/
joelanman on HN