Show HN: Finding the colours of the web

maresca 13 years ago |

http://webcolourdata.com/profile/85

Must go deeper haha.

pepijndevos 13 years ago | |

The colours of the internet aggregated: http://webcolourdata.com/profile/129

riblah 13 years ago | |

Planning on adding duplicate checking!

Kiro 13 years ago | |

What's going on?

cvantez 13 years ago | | |

Maresca found the color data for the webcolourdata.com page, then found the color data for that color data page, etc, etc.

Take a look at the thumbnail and you'll notice it's an image inside an image inside an image...

riblah 13 years ago |

Ok... so I haven't had to handle this much traffic before, bear with me!

ChikkaChiChi 13 years ago | |

Design is fantastic. I actually will try using this site!

I saved a bookmark for when your bandwidth isn't on fire ;)

aw3c2 13 years ago |

Hm, it is dismissing white (and black?) while I find those colours often very important to a site's look. Think Facebook, it is white and blue.

richardkeller 13 years ago | |

Including the colour outside the primary content area wouldn't be very accurate, since this is dependent on the viewer's screen resolution. For example, viewing Facebook on a widescreen display yields significantly more white than on a non-widescreen display.

prawn 13 years ago | |

Design Tip: Never Use Black http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/

riblah 13 years ago | |

I'm keeping white/black and greytones out for now. White/light greys are especially hard... how would you differentiate between the content and the background?

It's definitely on the list of things to address.

apineda 13 years ago | | |

Any chance of open sourcing? I'm interested in the algorithm. Is it quantizing to a more limited bit depth and taking say, top 5ish via mode?

riblah 13 years ago | | |

I do plan on open sourcing. A little self conscious about the code as I'm more of a designer, but watch this space.

At the moment it's quantizing down to 40 colours with a tree depth of 4, I then pull the top 12.

scarecrowbob 13 years ago | | |

A border?

samweinberg 13 years ago |

This is like an interactive version of www.brandcolors.net. Very nice!

HaloZero 13 years ago |

Is it ignore background-colors? Firefox is primarily green on this but of course the large button is there but the overall theme of the site seems to be that shade of blue

http://webcolourdata.com/profile/4

user24 13 years ago |

seems to be getting the mobile version of our site (http://webcolourdata.com/profile/4170). It's done on viewport width, not UA sniffing.

olegp 13 years ago |

This is great! Are you planning on exposing an API? Would love to add this to https://starthq.com

riblah 13 years ago | |

Eventually! Good to know that someone would use it.

pepijndevos 13 years ago |

It seem to pick up gradients too: http://webcolourdata.com/profile/816

tzury 13 years ago |

HN: http://webcolourdata.com/profile/6

darwindeeds 13 years ago |

Very neat. Bookmarked it! Now keep it up and going. Github link?

photorized 13 years ago |

My logo is orange, and I don't care.

wasd 13 years ago |

Interal Server Error :(

bjeanes 13 years ago | |

Keep trying... the Heroku app seems to be getting hammered

bflbfl 13 years ago |

beautiful