web-color-wheel
Creative
color picker
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#19of 2,570 in 2022
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14 positive, 43 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 20 critical, out of 80 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Execution: 2 for, 14 againstIdea: 8 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 5 against
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Useful for prototyping and debugging with named colours
From 3 comments
I'm not sure what the intent is, and what other people do with it, but I thoroughly _love_ having these named colours for when I'm hacking and prototyping. I can just start…
Waterluvian on HNThey're nice in prototyping styling since it's trivial to comprehend the intent of coloration while making it clear that finalized colors haven't been settled on.
munk-a on HNI always (and only) use named colours for debugging. For example border: 1px solid red; around some element that isn't rendering as expected. This makes it hard to accidentally…
robert_tweed on HN
Clean design and code
From 2 comments
Very cool and I love how clean the code is
brandonscott on HNI love this. Good job!
punyearthling on HN
Objections
Does not work in Safari or on iOS
From 5 comments
Doesn't work for the latest Safari browser.
somid3 on HNYep, Safari latest https://imgur.com/a/Tsx9pEZ
tambourine_man on HNDoesn’t work on iPad
Otek on HNBroken on iPhone
phrz on HNDoes not work safari mobile
basic612 on HN
Some adjacent colours are too similar to tell apart
From 2 comments
Interesting how some colors are so close from each other, especially "Chartreuse" and "Lawngreen" (on my middle-end monitors, at least).
me_bx on HNWhy on earth do both lawngreen and chartreuse exist? I can barely if at all tell the difference on my phone screen. Regardless, I love this, and love using named colors when…
Thorentis on HN
Requests
Copy colour to clipboard on click
From 2 comments
So simple and so elegant. Would it be a good idea to make the click copy the color in the clipboard? Not the color code, of course, in the spirit of the website.
iib on HNLove it. One suggestion - make it so it either copies to your clipboard when you click a color, or add an explicit "copy" button so it's easier to grab the name. But awesome…
mk4p on HN
Update URL to link directly to a selected colour
From 1 comment
This is great! Would be useful if selecting a colour changed the URL so you could link directly to it.
oneeyedpigeon on HN
Questions
Why is the colour layout arranged as it is
From 2 comments
This is great! What is the visualization? How did you do the visualization? And where did you get the idea / what was your thinking leading to this really cool way to do it? I…
graderjs on HNEach of these colours should just be a single "pixel" in the wheel, so how did you decide what shape/size to make each colour? Just arbitrarily?
issung on HN
Alternatives named
colornames.org
From 1 comment
In case the named web colors aren't enough, we're making excellent progress naming every color in the RGB space. https://colornames.org/
drewmate on HN
enes.in sorted colors
From 1 comment
This is great! For those who like this, you may also like https://enes.in/sorted-colors which also does the named web colours.
hughjd on HN