Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

[henningo]

Nice implementation - less is more!

What algorithm did you use for color extraction? I seem to getting colors with the correct hue, but too low saturation? (example: Ferrari)

You could also imagine to not show colors with very low saturation (ie. white/gray/blacks). I've previously used Colorific [1] which seems to address some of those things!

[1] http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/05/11/color-analysi...

[Cyranix]

I'm also curious about the algorithm, since a search for "google" results in a palette that only features one color out of the company's primary-plus-green motif. Seems like backgrounds (white in the case of Google, black in the case of demotivational posters) are weighted a little too strongly, perhaps.

[manueslapera]

aaaand you guys killed my tiniy Digital Ocean server.

[dushonok]

Nice! Though it seems the app is biased towards darker hues

[manueslapera]

hmm really? can you give me an example?

[aepearson]

So simple - but so cool. What a great idea.

My only "critique" would be to make the hex codes copy/paste ready in the results. I like the links to dribble, but I'd really like to just be able to quickly copy/paste the hex codes.

[manueslapera]

good point! What i'm thinking of doing is add a link to colourco.de so you can see the palettes there.

[allworknoplay]

This is pretty great!

I think maybe there's a little too much averaging going on? I get a lot of muted colors and way more browns than expected. For example, try "America" or "France" or "China" (I actually first tried "murica") and you might expect to see pretty standard bright colors, but it's not so much the case. The query where I got exactly what I expected was "fabulous".

[bottled_poe]

I'm not sure how "America" is associated with particular colours. Perhaps if you search "american flag" you would get what you want?

[elros]

Hey compañero, that's very cool! I wonder how hard would it be to add the query to the URL so that I can paste it to someone? :-)

[aepearson]

Another really good idea - I just sent this to some of our design guys and they love it. Having a link for specific results could be a great addition for sharing.

[manueslapera]

oh, didnt think about it, that seems like a very very easy implementation actually.

[dylanlacom]

came here to say the same thing :) +1!

[damon_c]

I'm going to guess, google image search and take the most common colors from the 1st couple of images?

[austinhutch]

Can you share any of the source? I would really like to learn how you did this. Awesome job, I love it!

[ecesena]

Really cool! If it can help, I was searching "gluten free" and the very first result contains colors very very similar, almost indistinguishable: #E51C20 vs #EF1A21, and #F4F2EC vs #FFF

[daddykotex]

I really like that, that it's nice a idea to build palettes on related images. I thought you would have a special formula that matches words with specific colors!

[jackmaney]

Cool! How does the color selection work? Is it just the five most common colors in a given image, or is it more sophisticated than that?

[thisjepisje]

When I search for "shit" all I get is motivational posters and they're not even brown.

edit: Bing images does a way better job than google.

[manueslapera]

hmm didnt think of that. Google Images json api is just so easy to use.

[thrush]

Would love to have an option to store state in the query string or hash so that I could share my favorite palette :)

[ch4s3]

I love it! This is a really fun idea. My favorite so far is 'coin operated helicopter'

[pocketheyman]

This is a solid. Simple, intuitive, organized. How long did it take to write?

[manueslapera]

I would say a couple of weeks, working maybe an hour a day?

so the hardest part was to build the palette login in Go.

Im not so good at it and it took me a lot of time, until I found out that someone had already built a palette logic in Go already, then everything was fine.

[Globz]

Solid tool, I like it and might be very useful for future projects!

[sevilo]

nice! I found myself having to dig around the internet when it comes to looking for colour palette for graphic design, the links to related works on dribble are very helpful too

[padho]

Congrats, this is a nice idea and an awesome execution of it. :)

[thekylemontag]

Hope DO comes back up soon! I want to check this out.

[popey456963]

Judging by how good the comments are when it is up, I hope it recovers soon too =)

[canthonytucci]

works incredibly well. a fantastic idea.

you should sign your work! Drop at least a link to your twitter at the bottom, this is a great tool.

[manueslapera]

thanks! thats a good point. I thought that the subdomain on my personal page was enough.