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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by maresca on Thursday April 25, 2013 @02:27PM (#5608978)
http://webcolourdata.com/profile/85

Must go deeper haha.

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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by pepijndevos on Thursday April 25, 2013 @04:49PM (#5609768)
The colours of the internet aggregated: http://webcolourdata.com/profile/129
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by riblah on Thursday April 25, 2013 @02:33PM (#5609018)
Planning on adding duplicate checking!
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by Kiro on Thursday April 25, 2013 @03:56PM (#5609474)
What's going on?
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by cvantez on Friday April 26, 2013 @02:10AM (#5611720)
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...

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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by riblah on Thursday April 25, 2013 @03:46PM (#5609428)
Ok... so I haven't had to handle this much traffic before, bear with me!
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by ChikkaChiChi on Thursday April 25, 2013 @03:52PM (#5609449)
Design is fantastic. I actually will try using this site!

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

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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by aw3c2 on Thursday April 25, 2013 @05:18PM (#5609926)
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.
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by richardkeller on Thursday April 25, 2013 @05:32PM (#5610029)
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.
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by prawn on Thursday April 25, 2013 @09:00PM (#5610908)
Design Tip: Never Use Black http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by riblah on Thursday April 25, 2013 @05:32PM (#5610028)
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.

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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by apineda on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:00PM (#5610189)
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?
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by riblah on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:10PM (#5610255)
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.

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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by scarecrowbob on Thursday April 25, 2013 @11:29PM (#5611332)
A border?
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by samweinberg on Thursday April 25, 2013 @04:18PM (#5609600)
This is like an interactive version of www.brandcolors.net. Very nice!
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by HaloZero on Friday April 26, 2013 @02:17AM (#5611730)
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

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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by user24 on Friday April 26, 2013 @07:34AM (#5612388)
seems to be getting the mobile version of our site (http://webcolourdata.com/profile/4170). It's done on viewport width, not UA sniffing.
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by olegp on Thursday April 25, 2013 @05:06PM (#5609859)
This is great! Are you planning on exposing an API? Would love to add this to https://starthq.com
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by riblah on Thursday April 25, 2013 @05:15PM (#5609912)
Eventually! Good to know that someone would use it.
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by pepijndevos on Thursday April 25, 2013 @04:50PM (#5609776)
It seem to pick up gradients too: http://webcolourdata.com/profile/816
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by tzury on Friday April 26, 2013 @09:21AM (#5612718)
HN: http://webcolourdata.com/profile/6
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by darwindeeds on Thursday April 25, 2013 @04:12PM (#5609556)
Very neat. Bookmarked it! Now keep it up and going. Github link?
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by photorized on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:22PM (#5610309)
My logo is orange, and I don't care.
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by wasd on Thursday April 25, 2013 @04:29PM (#5609659)
Interal Server Error :(
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by bjeanes on Thursday April 25, 2013 @04:43PM (#5609729)
Keep trying... the Heroku app seems to be getting hammered
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Re:Show HN: Finding the colours of the web by bflbfl on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:12PM (#5611125)
beautiful
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