Colour tools to assist picking

[gingerbeardman]

Colours are always difficult.

It would be cool to provide some tools to assist colour picking.

• simple pick of random colour based on hash of selected icon
• use a third-party index of colours
  • https://paletton.com
• or gradients
  • https://coolors.co/gradients
  • https://uigradients.com/
• etc

[gingerbeardman]

I'm trying this app

• https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/gradient-palette/id6446215235

It's "OK"

[jbmorley]

I'd been wanting to revisit all the color pickers, so I think these are fantastic suggestions. Thank you!

[jbmorley]

@gingerbeardman Do you have any references for the color theory behind things like Paletton—feels like it's following a bunch of very consistent and established rules that I could apply in my own picker.

[jbmorley]

I find it interesting that things like Gradient Palette just ship with a massive library of named gradients—do we think they're creating those themselves, or borrowing from known sets?

[gingerbeardman]

Not that I know of, but...

https://www.prasannamestha.com/blog/science-of-beautiful-color-gradients

[jbmorley]

OooOOOOooooooo 🧐

[gingerbeardman]

Another one

https://buttondown.com/allstationsbeyond/archive/space-cargo-tetris-palette-generation/

[gingerbeardman]

I guess this was enough for an app of its own.

https://bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

[jbmorley]

Makes sense—seems like doing something other than ripping off a bunch of palettes from other people represents quiet a bit of work.