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

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

Not sure about the use for it, is it supposed to be design or painting?

I've thought about making this for a long time to help me with painting, but in that case I think to be useful you need a bit more ways to see the data -- mostly, the thing that is the most important is value. So to get something useful out of it you need a distribution of the hues conditioned value.

And for design, the problem is a bit different. You may have a good looking palette, but 'inverting it' for dark mode is not trivial, and neither are gradients, getting intermediate colors, or getting a shifted hue.

It's called inspiration so it's fulfilling its promise, I'm just curious what are your thoughts on these since you obviously thought a lot about it.

I used to run an art social network 15 years ago that did this automatically with every piece of art uploaded and then it let you search for art by color that way.

Basically

$average = new Imagick( $file );

$average->quantizeImage( $numColors, Imagick::COLORSPACE_RGB, 0, false, false ); //Reduce the amount of colors to 10

$average->uniqueImageColors(); //Only save one pixel of each color

Why no contemporary/modern painters? First looked for Basquiat then Lichtenstein , nothing

Hi, I like it! 2 things I noticed:

1) Aren't "Modernism" and "Modernismo" the same thing? I'm a Spanish speaker and from my POV they are

2) Selected "Naïve Art" style and it's broken (images not loading). Probably something to do with the diaeresis

Hey ouli, your hello email bounces.

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

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.

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.

The letter directory is based upon artist first name... seems odd especially as most are going to know the last name and only maybe the first.

This is great! Love the idea. You should send to some art programs, sure they would get a kick out of it. Also gives another use case outside of just digital design.

Weird how similar many of those are to Commodore 64 palette.

Color extractor from pictures:

https://git.2f30.org/colors/log.html

I am currently looking for colour palettes and this website is of interest to me.

Small snag, some UTF8 things are going on with some colour names, I am sure you know and have cursed accordingly.

I like OKLCH colours and the ability to mix them in interesting ways using CSS things. This means I don't do hex codes for colours in CSS. I can translate though, however, soon some people will demand OKLCH, so you might as well add it in, trying to get it natural with the picker.

I appreciate the masters but I wonder how this would work using other sources, for example, Sunday newspaper supplements from the last century, and their glossy adverts, which were to a higher standard than what we get today.

It's wonderful. Thank you for building this.

nice

So... ummm... the website and all the submitter's comments here seem very Claude generated, no?

Spam filters are going to have to get a lot more sophisticated. "Slop" filters, even.

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

As a gruvbox enjoyer, I approve.

ouli, I feel like the algorithm fails to capture the essential colors and their roles. For example, for Mondrian I expect to find a palette with white, black, red, blue, yellow. Instead, the palette is a big swatch of white, a big off-white, and then little strips of color, with some equally-weighted grays too.

For Monet, many of the paintings have an important color highlight (e.g., the orange sun), which isn't captured in any of the palettes.

Needs more tweaking.

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

app version?

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