Just FYI:
1. You could save ~15.75kb by minifying your JS/CSS (a bit nit-picky since your resources are a fraction of what most sites have)
2. The 1MB background image comes out to 570.6 KB through tinypng.com (47% off!). If lossless is more your thing, you could save about 5% by running it through something like imageoptim.
However, I'll definitely be optimizing the files. Thank you for the tip!
In fact, every single app built on Swift is bundling the full set of runtime libraries, both on iOS and Mac. This will continue until the Swift ABI is finalised.
This is why I don't ship Swift yet.
Being color blind too (well, anomalous trichromat) I sometimes take pictures of things I want to buy/examine and analyze the colors at home: could you make a Force Touch option to load a picture from the camera roll instead of using the camera? (I suggest force touch because I don't want to interfere with the current simple interface/starting right away)
Either way, thanks, this will be used a lot
Thank you!
But, can I just say that I think the use of "real time" for an interactive color picker is a bit over the top?
I mean, what would the opposite be? You click a color, then one hour later you get an e-mail? Color picking in one shape or another has been done for 30+ years[1], and it has always been real-time, it's a basic interactive tool when working with computer images.
I realize it maps the color from a camera-fed image to a human-readable name (which perhaps wasn't always done in the past), but that's still not an operation I'd expect to have to wait for, not even when running on a mobile phone.
In short, I think those two words should be removed.
[1] This number is only slightly out of thin air; I picked colors on my Amiga in the late 80s.
As a fellow colourblind person, I've looked for similar "name the colours" apps before as I struggle to identify some colours (more out of curiosity than any real need, as I'm not a designer) but didn't find anything as nice as this!
Looks awesome for creating palettes too. Thanks for posting!
I'd upvote you twice if I could.
> The Resene RGB Values List is copyrighted to Resene Paints Ltd, 2001. Name That Color by Chirag Mehta
There are so many better licenses.
This has so many potential uses--fashion websites for one. I can't go by the color on websites for the clothing; I need to look at the details for the written color. I usually just buy black, and people call me Jonny Cash. A therapist once asked me why I always wear black. Just too dissalusioned on so many levels to tell why. That was my last session.
I imagine sites like The Gap would pay for a custom app incorporated into their site?
Will I pay for this app? Maybe? It will be my first bought app. All these years, and I never gave Apple my CC, on principle. They might get it today though.
Really excited to share my little project here. Being a colorblind designer, it was often hard for me to figure the color names and decide which colors to use. Hence, I decided to make this app.
Cone lets you pick colors in real time using the phone's camera. It lets you build color palettes while on the run, capturing and recording color for later comment/discussion, sending the colors to someone else quickly and efficiently, and of course translating a physical objects color to a usable set of information without having to get expensive colorimetric equipment.
Really excited to hear feedback from you all :)