Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

(paletteinspiration.com)

34 points | by ouli 2 hours ago ago

14 comments

  • S0und 30 minutes ago

    As an "expert viewer" of Baumgartner Restoration, this site usefulness is questionable. If you look at those color palettes, most of them brownish that is because of dirty & old oxidised varnish. These are not the intended look of these paintings. So these color palettes has nothing to do with those 3000 masters.

    https://youtube.com/@baumgartnerrestoration

    • molf 22 minutes ago

      Agreed. I absolutely adore the idea of it! But all the brownish colours tell the same story.

      For some additional context; many old pigments were not stable at all.

      https://www.vangoghstudio.com/what-were-the-original-colors-...

    • ouli 19 minutes ago

      This is a very interesting perspective. I'd thought the muted, brownish colors in these paintings had to do with the quality and availability of pigments during that period.

      • nekooooo 17 minutes ago

        hundreds of years of oxidation will make everything brown.

  • code51 16 minutes ago

    Why do I only see Claude in this UI? It seems Claude is picking up the very same color scheme for many webpage building requests.

  • thangalin an hour ago

    Hey ouli, your hello email bounces.

    See also: https://amandahinton.com/blog/creating-a-color-palette-from-...

    • ouli 32 minutes ago

      Sorry for the inconvenience. The email works now. Regarding the article - I use similar ideas to extract colors form artwork images, only difference is I added color prevalence scale for each color and limited it to 10 colors per palette.

  • afolkest an hour ago

    Love it. I'll be using this on a weekly basis in my art practice.

    Let me know if you ever create an API endpoint.

    • ouli an hour ago

      Thank you for kind words! That was my exact intention to share empirically proven color palettes for artists and designers like you. Adding API endpoint is a great idea. I'll let you know when it will be ready.

  • xydac an hour ago

    this is interesting, we should wire this to frontend design system library that automatically helps user use these palette.

    • ouli an hour ago

      Thank you. Glad you find it interesting.

  • oybng an hour ago

    Very nice. My only gripe is the automatic page switching on scroll, never encountered that before and I absolutely hate it

    • ouli 37 minutes ago

      Thank you for the kind words and insightful feedback. My intention with page-switching on scroll was to offer more color palettes without requiring extra clicks. I had some reservations about it too, but couldn't find a better way to provide a continuous feed of similar palettes. I'll work on improving that feature.

      • oybng 5 minutes ago

        It's very convenient, I wish I could offer a worthy suggestion. The trouble in my case is that it's very sensitive and the palettes are barely in view before the page refreshes, they don't reach the center of the screen. Thanks for sharing