Show HN: Finding the colours of the web

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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