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Re:Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color pal... by henningo on Thursday November 06, 2014 @11:53AM (#8567946)
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...

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Re:Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color pal... by Cyranix on Thursday November 06, 2014 @03:43PM (#8569625)
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.
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