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Painters spent centuries figuring out color and we mostly ignore that body of work when picking colors for digital design.\nPlease share your feedback on the Color Harmony Explorer - drag the wheel to any color and it shows which hues master painters historically paired with it (not only standard complementary, analogous, triadic, etc.) It is solely",{"problem":48,"audience":54,"pricing":65,"motivation":69,"time_to_build":73,"stack":74,"openness":75,"stage":76,"team_size":75},{"value":49,"source":50,"evidence":51},"Generic palette generators produce the same muted pastels; painters' colors are an underused source","maker",[52],{"id":53},"post",{"value":55,"source":50,"evidence":56},"Artists and designers choosing colors",[57,58,62],{"id":53},{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"48026975","afolkest","Love it. I'll be using this on a weekly basis in my art practice. Let me know if you ever create an API endpoint.",{"id":63,"by":11,"text":64},"48027066","Thank you for kind words! That was my exact intention to share empirically proven color palettes for artists and designers like you. Adding API endpoint is a great idea. I'll let…",{"value":66,"source":50,"evidence":67},"No signup, no paywall, no email capture",[68],{"id":53},{"value":70,"source":50,"evidence":71},"Painters spent centuries on color, which is largely ignored in digital design palettes",[72],{"id":53},null,[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":78,"objections":104,"requests":142,"questions":168,"alternatives":180},[79,92],{"value":80,"source":81,"evidence":82},"Beautiful concept and site design","commenter",[83,87,91],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"48074496","anthonycoslett","This is a gorgeous site and beautiful concept. I'm interested to learn what inspired you to create this contribution? I look forward to exploring it more especially as I decide…",{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"48030057","yubblegum","It's wonderful. Thank you for building this.",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":93,"source":81,"evidence":94},"Useful for artists and designers",[95,96,100],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"48028884","BlueRock-Jake","This is great! Love the idea. You should send to some art programs, sure they would get a kick out of it. Also gives another use case outside of just digital design.",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"48051013","saltypixel","As a designer and creative director, I use Adobe Color and Pinterest for client branding\u002Fre-brand inspiration, or just straight to the pantone books. This is interesting to me as…",[105,120,131],{"value":106,"source":81,"evidence":107},"Oxidized varnish and faded pigments mean palettes don't show the original colors",[108,112,116],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"48027500","S0und","As an \"expert viewer\" of Baumgartner Restoration, this site usefulness is questionable. If you look at those color palettes, most of them brownish that is because of dirty & old…",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"48027588","molf","Agreed. I absolutely adore the idea of it! But all the brownish colours tell the same story. For some additional context; many old pigments were not stable at all.…",{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"48032246","KevinMS","> is because of dirty & old oxidised varnish And the pigments fade. And even worse, they fade at various rates and some are almost completely gone.",{"value":121,"source":81,"evidence":122},"Palettes from averaging across several paintings lose the key colors",[123,127],{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"48034763","senexex","An additional problem is that it looks like the colors are from the intersection of 3 random paintings. The masters already picked their colors on one painting. If you randomly…",{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"48032676","khazhoux","ouli, I feel like the algorithm fails to capture the essential colors and their roles. For example, for Mondrian I expect to find a palette with white, black, red, blue, yellow.…",{"value":132,"source":81,"evidence":133},"Suspected AI-generated or vibecoded site",[134,138],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"48032826","camillomiller","It‘s vibecoded slop that turned an idea that should have stayed a bad idea into poor execution, convincing the vibecoder that the idea is validated. The vibe coder has absolutely…",{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"48031039","austinjp","So... ummm... the website and all the submitter's comments here seem very Claude generated, no? Spam filters are going to have to get a lot more sophisticated. \"Slop\" filters,…",[143,150,156,164],{"value":144,"source":81,"evidence":145},"Add OKLCH color output",[146],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"48027913","Theodores","I am currently looking for colour palettes and this website is of interest to me. Small snag, some UTF8 things are going on with some colour names, I am sure you know and have…",{"value":151,"source":50,"evidence":152},"Add RYB color wheel option",[153],{"id":154,"by":11,"text":155},"48044111","Great points! 1. I'll try to add RYB option for color harmony wheel 2. You are absolutely correct, there are no consistent palettes across genres, but I thought it will be…",{"value":157,"source":81,"evidence":158},"Add modern or pop art painters",[159,163],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"48032353","realitysballs","Why no contemporary\u002Fmodern painters? First looked for Basquiat then Lichtenstein , nothing",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},{"value":165,"source":81,"evidence":166},"Provide an API endpoint",[167],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},[169],{"value":170,"source":81,"evidence":171},"Can original pigment colors be recovered from faded paintings?",[172,176],{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"48028928","pzoln","so is there a formula that can be automatically applied to restore the original colors? at least some reasonable approximation, based on the painting's age?",{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"48031267","basch","Is there enough color data left in the brown to correct it? Or do you need to infer it based on location, budget, time, climate etc?",[181,185],{"value":182,"source":81,"evidence":183},"Adobe Color",[184],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},{"value":186,"source":50,"evidence":187},"Coolors and Colorhunt",[188],{"id":189,"by":11,"text":190},"48036475","The intention of this site is to showcase time tested palettes (with empirical evidence) of greatest visual artists instead of listing endless sea of neon bright color palettes…",{"comments":192,"answered":18,"key":193},27,[194,197,200],{"id":195,"text":196},"48027615","This is a very interesting perspective. I'd thought the muted, brownish colors in these paintings had to do with the quality and availability of pigments during that period.",{"id":198,"text":199},"48029946","I would like to know that formula also. this can be an interesting tool to reveal true colors of paintings as the painters intended...",{"id":201,"text":202},"48036564","Actually I group artworks based on artist\u002Fganre\u002Fstyle similar color palette and showcase up to 3 images from that 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