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http://webcolourdata.com

by riblah • 13 years ago

128 26 13 years ago

webcolourdata.com

maresca• 13 years ago

http://webcolourdata.com/profile/85

Must go deeper haha.

riblah5• 13 years ago

Planning on adding duplicate checking!

Kiro• 13 years ago

What's going on?

cvantez• 13 years ago

Maresca found the color data for the webcolourdata.com page, then found the color data for that color data page, etc, etc.

Take a look at the thumbnail and you'll notice it's an image inside an image inside an image...

pepijndevos2• 13 years ago

The colours of the internet aggregated: http://webcolourdata.com/profile/129

riblah5• 13 years ago

Ok... so I haven't had to handle this much traffic before, bear with me!

ChikkaChiChi• 13 years ago

Design is fantastic. I actually will try using this site!

I saved a bookmark for when your bandwidth isn't on fire ;)

darwindeeds• 13 years ago

Very neat. Bookmarked it! Now keep it up and going. Github link?

samweinberg• 13 years ago

This is like an interactive version of www.brandcolors.net. Very nice!

wasd• 13 years ago

Interal Server Error :(

bjeanes• 13 years ago

Keep trying... the Heroku app seems to be getting hammered

pepijndevos2• 13 years ago

It seem to pick up gradients too: http://webcolourdata.com/profile/816

olegp• 13 years ago

This is great! Are you planning on exposing an API? Would love to add this to https://starthq.com

riblah5• 13 years ago

Eventually! Good to know that someone would use it.

aw3c2• 13 years ago

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.

riblah5• 13 years ago

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.

apineda• 13 years ago

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?

scarecrowbob• 13 years ago

A border?

richardkeller• 13 years ago

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.

prawn• 13 years ago

Design Tip: Never Use Black http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/

photorized• 13 years ago

My logo is orange, and I don't care.

bflbfl• 13 years ago

beautiful

HaloZero• 13 years ago

Is it ignore background-colors? Firefox is primarily green on this but of course the large button is there but the overall theme of the site seems to be that shade of blue

http://webcolourdata.com/profile/4

user24• 13 years ago

seems to be getting the mobile version of our site (http://webcolourdata.com/profile/4170). It's done on viewport width, not UA sniffing.

tzury• 13 years ago

HN: http://webcolourdata.com/profile/6

Show HN: Finding the colours of the web

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