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Show HN: Ray-color, color palettes sampled off a raytraced tennis ball(meodai.github.io)
1 points by meodai 2mo ago|0 comments
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by meodai 5mo ago
took me a while, but its working now: https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/#2F8F and https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/#884C
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by meodai 5mo ago
yeah that’s a more utilitarian approach mine is more about exploring and navigating the unicode space visually beauty is in the eye of the beholder though going through every comment to promote it feels a bit… unnecessary
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by meodai 5mo ago
Fair enough. I didn’t go for cultural or visual accuracy when naming it, I just wanted something loosely tied to characters / unicode, and the pun clicked for me. I still like it a lot.
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by meodai 5mo ago
The only way that I can think of to respond to that question is this: https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/data/fonts/fonts.css
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by meodai 5mo ago
done!
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by meodai 5mo ago
exactly
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by meodai 5mo ago
I’m a native French speaker, and “charcuterie” doesn’t really carry that negative meaning in everyday use. It’s very commonly used to mean cold cuts / prepared meats. The butcher is un charcutier, and the shop is une boucherie. La char
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by meodai 5mo ago
fixed
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by meodai 5mo ago
great idea, I think I will do both
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by meodai 5mo ago
should be less boxes now!
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by meodai 5mo ago
oh right, good catch
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by meodai 5mo ago
True, thanks for the feedback
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by meodai 5mo ago
It does
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by meodai 5mo ago
I use it to find icons I likr
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Show HN: Pro Color Harmonies – A library for color harmonies(meodai.github.io)
1 points by meodai 10mo ago|1 comments
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Color Palette Pro: a synthesiser for colour(colorpalette.pro)
1 points by meodai 10mo ago|1 comments
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by meodai 10mo ago
Just discovered ColorPalette Pro by Ryan Feigenbaum: a synthesiser for colour. I like the music-hardware analogy. the way its written is quite manual, but the results are pretty good! https://github.com/royalfig/color-p
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by meodai 11mo ago
thanks!
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by meodai 11mo ago
congrats!
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by meodai 11mo ago
I build a lot of tools that generate colorpalettes and I wanted a wide range of nice-sounding names that feel evocative of the colors they represent. I see it as an API between a program and a human. I started with about 1,600 names scraped
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by meodai 11mo ago
changed the original: interacting with the cube will stop the spin
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by meodai 11mo ago
I originally made this about 8 years ago just for myself: to see where the color name list I maintain had gaps: https://github.com/meodai/color-names As I learned more about color models, I kept adding different ones o
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by meodai 11mo ago
No it does not colornames.org emerged after my color name list.
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by meodai 11mo ago
Id love to start one. Not sure in what format to store them to be future proof though.
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by meodai 11mo ago
oh Id love to add this to the tooling of the color names list. How did you figure out what the largest gap was?
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by meodai 11mo ago
I am the creator of the 3d thing that was shared. I am very interested in collaborating on something. Is the data you used for it accessible somewhere?
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by meodai 11mo ago
No they are separate lists. "All Color Names" comes from: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
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by meodai 11mo ago
thanks for brining that up. Its a fight I stoped fighting a long time ago...
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by meodai 11mo ago
I changed it: as soon as you interact with it, it stops spinning

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