Dieter Rams Palettes

http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/rams-palettes

by bookofjoe • 5 years ago

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I don’t understand palettes. They’re super subjective, someone’s taste and you’re just following trends. Why not make your own palette? Why is it difficult to choose harmonious colors? Sounds harder than it is. Try it.

azinman23• 5 years ago

This isn’t just “anyone’s” taste — he’s one of the great designers of last century.

systemvoltage6• 5 years ago

I know who Dieter Rams is. My point still stands. I don’t “get” palettes in general and tools that allow you to make them. I’ve come up with several palettes of my own and they look just as good. Took no more than 2 mins. Have you tried?

allenu• 5 years ago

You're assuming that the only purpose of the post is so people can copy the palette outright. I see it more as a way of educating oneself of what others have done to see what works and what doesn't. If you like an artist's work, it's worth analyzing what they do so you can incorporate ideas into your own work (or not).

achn• 5 years ago

You should have stopped after the first sentence. Your lack of design knowledge does not invalidate an entire field of practice.

systemvoltage6• 5 years ago

I question what design expertise is needed to come up with a palette that Dieter Rams has come up with. I don’t see any objective or even a deeper understanding of contrast, accessibility, color blindness considerations, application specific aspects, historical analysis, etc. that would be way more illuminating than “Here is a list of some cool palettes from famous designers”.

We are discussing art. Design is a lot more objective than you’re implying.

If you can’t tell what goes into coming up with a palette, then it’s up for debate and questioning.

azinman23• 5 years ago

Beautiful, however retro palettes, but putting them into this visual form with the hex is really top notch. It reminds me of all the work that’s done in the audio plug-in world to create skeuomorphic recreations of physical devices.

kapp_in_life• 5 years ago

Is there a reason for no DR02 or DR05?

jcgoette• 5 years ago

Premium content.

https://twitter.com/cgpov/status/1214612422956371968

munchbunny• 5 years ago

The use of hex codes in skeuomorphic representations reminds me of a small detail in branding that I learned a few years ago from a friend.

Because of how the same hex code will translate into different colors on different devices/screens, brands will often define print and digital palettes separately, and their print palettes might also change slightly based on the medium, like on card stock vs. cardboard. Turns out just picking the "same" color across multiple mediums is non-trivial.

ucarion• 5 years ago

It's really hard to get the same perceived color out of a screen (which shines combinations of R, G, and B at your eyes) versus a physical thing (which reflects a subset of the sun's radiation into your eyes).

The way we do this only works for humans, incidentally. Most of the time, different things only appear to have the same color because they happen to map to the same "point" in color perception space, not because they actually produce the same light distribution.

wmf• 5 years ago

There's an entire company to solve that problem: Pantone.

willcipriano• 5 years ago

As well as an entire branch of science: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorimetry

madaxe_again• 5 years ago

Eh, it’s a nightmare even on entirely digital platforms. The photographer insists on using prophoto RGB. The client tweaks the images in photoshop, and saves them in Adobe RGB. They then upload them all, which converts them to sRGB, which looks fine to them and us on our calibrated monitors. An hour later, their MD calls, furious that on his computer, this blue dress looks green, that beige bag looks grey.

Colour is wildly inconsistent across software and hardware. It’s amazing to me that nothing has really changed or got better in decades. If anything, it’s getting worse, with the various HDR standards.

brazzy2• 5 years ago

I think people tend not to see it as a big thing (or even not notice it at all) because colour being wildly inconsistent is the normal case in the real world, due to changing lighting conditions, and our brains adjust for it automatically.

post_break• 5 years ago

reminds me of the website https://www.colourlovers.com/ for palettes.

devoutsalsa• 5 years ago

I was trying to make sense of that title. Reading “Diet-er” because I didn’t know who “Dieter” used up more brain cycles than I care to admit. I must be afraid to click on potential clickbait.

owenversteeg• 5 years ago

Looks like it's Dieter Rams inspired, not actually his palettes: https://twitter.com/cgpov/status/1214612422956371968

lwhi• 5 years ago

This needs to be the top comment.

Daub• 5 years ago

I assume many of you here are familiar with the strength of influence that Dieter Rams had on Johny Ives.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/11/30/jony-i...

amelius• 5 years ago

Good artists copy, great artists steal ...

-- Picasso and later stolen by Steve Jobs

captainmuon• 5 years ago

This looks really gorgeous. I know skeuomorphism has been out for a while now, but imagine a gui that looks like those images. The buttons not with fake gradients, but physically correctly rendered. No areas of uniform color, but a subtle noise texture making it look real. A bit like the mockups of Microsoft's Fluent Design.

jansan• 5 years ago

All these pallets are on white background, but dieter Rams made some awesome designs with black being the main color. Of course the ET 66 comes to mind, and my parents owned a ts 501 that I loved as a kid without ever thinking about design or Dieter Rams.

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