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Show HN: Finding the colours of the web

128 points| riblah | 13 years ago |webcolourdata.com | reply

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[+] riblah|13 years ago|reply
Ok... so I haven't had to handle this much traffic before, bear with me!
[+] ChikkaChiChi|13 years ago|reply
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|reply
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|reply
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.
[+] riblah|13 years ago|reply
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.

[+] samweinberg|13 years ago|reply
This is like an interactive version of www.brandcolors.net. Very nice!
[+] HaloZero|13 years ago|reply
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

[+] olegp|13 years ago|reply
This is great! Are you planning on exposing an API? Would love to add this to https://starthq.com
[+] riblah|13 years ago|reply
Eventually! Good to know that someone would use it.
[+] darwindeeds|13 years ago|reply
Very neat. Bookmarked it! Now keep it up and going. Github link?
[+] photorized|13 years ago|reply
My logo is orange, and I don't care.
[+] wasd|13 years ago|reply
Interal Server Error :(
[+] bjeanes|13 years ago|reply
Keep trying... the Heroku app seems to be getting hammered