Lexadecimal - colour codes with meaning

http://lexadecimal.com/

by jalada • 15 years ago

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yuvadam• 15 years ago

That's the most beautiful thing I've seen today.

jalada• 15 years ago

Thanks :) I was one of the guys working on it.

bgraves• 15 years ago

I really like the "I want a T-shirt!" button. I wonder if those button-clicks are being tracked or only emailed requests. I think tracking both would be smart.

pluies_public• 15 years ago

I love it. The basic idea is beautifully simple, and it's very nicely done.

zith• 15 years ago

Speaking of hexadecimal numbers that mean something. Does anyone know any good numbers that stand out both in hex and in decimal? Something that would make people suspect it is a number used for debugging.

unwind• 15 years ago

Wikipedia knows plenty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29#....

My favorite is probably the classic 0xDEADF00D, but I also like 0xCAFEBABE as used by Java class files, and 0xFEEDFACE since it's just funny.

True, these mostly stand out in hex, but they would be "very large" in decimal which often stands out pretty well.

ntoshev• 15 years ago

Palette-sentences, anyone?

rglover• 15 years ago

Genius. Not sure why this hasn't been done before. I can see using this in future projects.

gjm11• 15 years ago

Lovely!

I think it would be improved by having a cleverer colour-based sorting algorithm. At the moment, you choose one parameter (H, S or V) to sort by, and the others have no effect at all, and it looks a bit too random.

Here's one toy example of what I think is a more natural-looking order of colours: http://i.imgur.com/xjh97.png (I took red<<1, green<<2 and blue, and interleaved their bits). Better still might be to sort by position along a Hilbert-curve traversal of the RGB cube or HSL space or something, but I couldn't work out how to do that in 5 minutes so didn't bother :-).

derefr• 15 years ago

> Better still might be to sort by position along a Hilbert-curve traversal of the RGB cube or HSL space or something

Like this? http://corte.si/posts/code/hilbert/portrait/index.html

eropple• 15 years ago

Kinda interesting looking, but why? What's the point? I hate to be the guy who says "I don't get it," but...I don't get it.

romey• 15 years ago

Wow, I could definitely see these adding another level of depth to Alternate Reality Games / Puzzles (not to mention computer art). Beautiful design, as well.

jenniart• 15 years ago

Haha, I'm going to start referring to colors this way in my office. It would be fun to pair colors together as a sort of designer inside joke. Like design a celebrity site with "scolds" and "celebs." Anyway, I hope they get the t-shirt thing going. That's a cool idea.

zem• 15 years ago

reminds me of my brief stint in frontend web development, when i would sneak in at least one #c0ffee-coloured element in every project.

Lexadecimal - colour codes with meaning

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