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# Color

## Links

* [Color Hunt](http://colorhunt.co/)
* [Handpicked list of 18181 unique color names from various sources and thousands of user submissions](https://github.com/meodai/color-names)
* [Colormind](http://colormind.io/) - Color scheme generator that uses deep learning.
* [Building Your Color Palette](https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette/) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25180180))
* [Cloudflare Design](https://cloudflare.design/color/) - Preview palettes against UI elements.
* [pastel](https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel) - Command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
* [Image Color Picker](https://image-color.com) - Image color picker and palette generator.
* [Contrast](https://usecontrast.com/) - MacOS app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios.
* [Sip](https://sipapp.io/) - Better way to collect, organize & share your colors.
* [Designing accessible color systems (2019)](https://stripe.com/gb/blog/accessible-color-systems)
* [SRCERY](https://srcery-colors.github.io/) - Dark color scheme.
* [Who can use this color combination?](https://whocanuse.com/)
* [Happy Hues](https://www.happyhues.co/) - Color palette inspiration site that acts as a real world example as to how the colors could be used in your design projects.
* [The Hitchhiker's Guide to Digital Color](https://hg2dc.com/) - Light-hearted introduction to understanding digital color reproduction.
* [Brown; color is weird (2020)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22324298))
* [The Weird World in RGB (2019)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYbdx4I7STg)
* [Pywal](https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal) - Tool that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image.
* [HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space (2020)](https://www.kuon.ch/post/2020-03-08-hsluv/)
* [HSLuv](https://www.hsluv.org/) - Human-friendly HSL. ([Code](https://github.com/hsluv/hsluv))
* [colors.lol](https://colors.lol/) - Overly descriptive color palettes. ([Code](https://github.com/adamfuhrer/colors.lol))
* [Color gradient generator](https://mybrandnewlogo.com/color-gradient-generator)
* [Building dark mode on Stack Overflow (2020)](https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/03/31/building-dark-mode-on-stack-overflow/) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22776651))
* [Duo](https://duo.alexpate.uk/) - Collection of color combinations that I've curated from personal projects or that I've come across on the web. ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22801661))
* [color-scheme.js](http://c0bra.github.io/color-scheme-js/) - Generate nice, pretty color schemes with JavaScript. ([Code](https://github.com/c0bra/color-scheme-js))
* [Themer](https://themer.dev/) - Takes a set of colors and generates themes for your development environment (editors, terminals, wallpapers, and more). ([Code](https://github.com/mjswensen/themer))
* [Color Names](https://colornames.org/) - Collaborative effort to name every color in the RGB/web space. ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22852646))
* [Chromotome](https://kgolid.github.io/chromotome-site/) - Collection of color palettes saved for personal use. ([Code](https://github.com/kgolid/chromotome))
* [Research links on color theory (2020)](https://twitter.com/mattdesl/status/1260341933551104000)
* [A short history of color theory](https://programmingdesignsystems.com/color/a-short-history-of-color-theory/index.html)
* [35+ white paint colors that top designers swear by](https://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/color/advice/a3448/the-right-white-a-70889/)
* [Scale](https://hihayk.github.io/scale/) - Generative way to create color scales. ([Code](https://github.com/hihayk/scale))
* [Sanzo Wada](https://sanzo-wada.dmbk.io/) - Dictionary of Color Combinations. ([Code](https://github.com/dblodorn/sanzo-wada))
* [Palettes from A Dictionary of Colour Combinations](https://github.com/mattdesl/dictionary-of-colour-combinations)
* [Color Copy Paste](https://colorcopypaste.app/) - Copy & paste colour directly from your camera to Figma/Sketch/Chrome. ([Code](https://github.com/sonnylazuardi/color-copy-paste))
* [Perceptually Smooth Multi-Color Linear Gradients (2020)](https://observablehq.com/@mattdesl/perceptually-smooth-multi-color-linear-gradients)
* [Piggment](https://piggment.co/) - The gradient you have always wanted.
* [Material Design Palette Generator](https://materialpalettes.com/) ([Code](https://github.com/edelstone/material-palette-generator))
* [Colour Theory On 80 Display Boards (1944)](http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/colour-theory-on-80-display-boards-1944)
* [Color Palette Generator](https://palettegenerator.colorion.co/)
* [Coolors](https://coolors.co/) - Super fast color schemes generator.
* [atcq](https://github.com/mattdesl/atcq) - Implementation of Ant-Tree Color Quantization (ATCQ), described by Pérez-Delgado in various papers.
* [Color contrast checker, analyser and color suggestions](https://polypane.app/color-contrast/)
* [Adobe Color](https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel) - Color wheel, a color palette generator.
* [iroiro](https://github.com/antfu/iroiro) - Beautiful Colors Lookup in CLI.
* [consistent-shading](https://github.com/ugudango/consistent-shading) - Shade consitency for various hues, based on luminance.
* [Sorted CSS Colors](https://enes.in/sorted-colors/) - Sort the named CSS colors in a way that it shows related colors together. ([Code](https://github.com/scriptype/sorted-colors))
* [Cascading Colors](https://cascading-colors.netlify.app/) - Generate dynamic and themable color palettes using CSS custom properties, and allow (persistent) user-adjustments with a bit of light-weight JS. ([Code](https://github.com/oddbird/cascading-color-system))
* [Basic Color Science For Graphics Engineer (2018)](https://agraphicsguynotes.com/posts/basic_color_science_for_graphcis_engineer/)
* [Bjango Color Creator Templates](https://github.com/bjango/Color-Creator) - Photoshop, Sketch and Affinity Designer documents that use base colors to generate larger palettes.
* [Palettte App](https://palettte.app/) ([Explanation](https://gabrieladorf.com/palettteapp/))
* [Reasoning about colors (2020)](https://notes.neeasade.net/color-spaces.html) ([Lobsters](https://lobste.rs/s/ezppla/reasoning_about_colors))
* [How do humans perceive color? (2020)](https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-study-about-color-tries-to-decode-the-brains-pantone/)
* [Random Color Cycler](https://farbvelo.elastiq.ch/) ([Code](https://github.com/meodai/farbvelo))
* [Colorable](https://colorable.jxnblk.com/) - Color combination contrast tester. ([Code](https://github.com/jxnblk/colorable))
* [How software gets color wrong (2020)](https://bottosson.github.io/posts/colorwrong/)
* [Random color generator for JavaScript](https://randomcolor.lllllllllllllllll.com/) ([Code](https://github.com/davidmerfield/randomColor))
* [Practical Color Theory for People Who Code (2016)](http://tallys.github.io/color-theory/)