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

https://paletteinspiration.com/
23•ouli•1h ago
I built PaletteInspiration.com, a browsable archive of color palettes pulled from artworks by 3,000+ master painters (Monet, Vermeer, Raphael, Van Gogh). Why I built it: every color palette generator I tried converged on the same five muted pastels. Painters spent centuries figuring out color and we mostly ignore that body of work when picking colors for digital design. Please share your feedback on the Color Harmony Explorer - drag the wheel to any color and it shows which hues master painters historically paired with it (not only standard complementary, analogous, triadic, etc.) It is solely based on co-occurrence across thousands of real paintings. Not algorithmic color theory rules - actual empirical pairings.

No signup, no paywall, no email capture. Just curious what people think.

Comments

xydac•46m ago
this is interesting, we should wire this to frontend design system library that automatically helps user use these palette.
ouli•43m ago
Thank you. Glad you find it interesting.
afolkest•46m ago
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.

ouli•40m ago
Thank you for kind words! That was my exact intention to share empirically proven color palettes for artists and designers like you. Adding API endpoint is a great idea. I'll let you know when it will be ready.
thangalin•27m ago
Hey ouli, your hello email bounces.

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

ouli•7m ago
Sorry for the inconvenience. The email works now. Regarding the article - I use similar ideas to extract colors form artwork images, only difference is I added color prevalence scale for each color and limited it to 10 colors per palette.
oybng•22m ago
Very nice. My only gripe is the automatic page switching on scroll, never encountered that before and I absolutely hate it
ouli•12m ago
Thank you for the kind words and insightful feedback. My intention with page-switching on scroll was to offer more color palettes without requiring extra clicks. I had some reservations about it too, but couldn't find a better way to provide a continuous feed of similar palettes. I'll work on improving that feature.
S0und•5m ago
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

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