Is there a good, reasonably active, site with a list of palettes that talented people were good enough to make Freely available? I used to go to kuler.adobe.com (spelling?) but I think it changed and I've since had trouble finding one that is as good.
Creating a usable palettes has very little to do with the usual "find five colors that look good together" approach and is actually a much more tangible and technical process.
You'll want to start with ONE color. Create a step of shades onto your background color & check it for possible needs of hue and saturation tweaks along the grading.
Find a complementary dull, almost gray color and develop the same kinds of shade.
You're mostly done now. It's often advisable to find a secondary, complementary color to go with it, but that's it pretty much it for the breadth of the palette you'll actually need in most ui design projects.
Going off most of these typical 5c color palette proposals that look good on their own will almost never lead you to a good and foremost usable color scheme, it's nice to look at but the way these are used make it appear like you need half a dozen primary colors. What you'll actually want is one brand color and matching greyscale, and then work off the requirements of elements that need to stand out.
Just like with typography, heavy limitation but subtle alterations of your palette is what leads to a good looking, coherent design.
Though it's gotten ad spammy it seems
I'll mention that one thing that is appealing is that the license is clear. I use the palettes for some Freely-licensed projects and so I redistribute the materials. In many places it is hard to tell what is allowed (I have a number of times spent some effort tracking down a creator only to be eventually unable to get more than "It is free" for a license statement.)
Happy to answer any and all of your questions!
Your call though, I'm just a guy who uses software.
The intro video was helpful to see the app in action, but it was hard for me to understand the actual process of how I would "create a palette from a single color". It might be helpful to have more of a tutorial video with voice over that walks through starting with a color, and getting to a full palette.
The tagline of creating a palette from a single color is very compelling to me (as a developer with a modicum of design talent), but I was confused/overwhelmed by all the options and it was hard for me to piece together what was happening in the preview video.
I have it inside Paletter Lite app.. have a screenshot for you here: https://imgur.com/a/CJvf0fh
What is the difference between the Lite version and the paid version?
I am going to outline it on the next website.. for now, it's present in the Upgrade tab on Paletter Lite
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/CJvf0fh
https://www.tailwindshades.com
https://tailwind.simeongriggs.dev
https://javisperez.github.io/tailwindcolorshades/
https://tailwind-color-picker.jessarcher.com
Also, maybe consider hosting on Netlify or Vercel or Github Pages, or anything that doesn't require a server to spin up for a static site.
It also helps piggyback on the App Store for discovery.
Furthermore, maybe I am missing something, but where are the color management settings?
I'd be really interested in seeing someone do that in 20 minutes. If you ever decide to do that, please post here.
Obviously it was a bit of a facetious comment, and props to the author for building a full iOS app. This is definitely not that.
https://hn-color-palette-generator.netlify.app
https://github.com/noughtme/color-palette/tree/main/src
*I have a bunch of color related function code snippets I use for dataviz, so I did not write the utils file "from scratch" just now. Also chakra-ui is a great component library that helps with quick prototyping.
Cloud palettes are probably coming. As for Linux, would be a tough call since most designers are on Mac and Windows.
I'd say most people struggle with the taste part, and that's what Paletter helps with. The logical side of things can be learned quickly.
The fact that I can't do it means, to me, that there is creativity involved. Creators deserve rights. That's fair enough, it seems to me.
I was looking for a site where creators had generously made some available under a Free license.