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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderI work on design systems as my day-to-day job. This is the first post I've seen on HN that actually captures how to properly set up your color palette. The author's early call out on how palette generators are not a one-stop-shop for your color palette rings true. Color meaning and harmony cannot be broken down into a mathematical formula. It's too heavily influenced by a.) biology, b.) trends, and c.) culture. RGB simply does not map 1:1 with our…
Take this one step further and build the color palette into your stylesheets. If you're using Sass you can setup something like: $palettes: ( blue: ( lightest: hsl(201, 75%, 66%), lighter: hsl(201, 75%, 61%), light: hsl(201, 75%, 56%), base: hsl(201, 75%, 51%), dark: hsl(201, 75%, 46%), darker: hsl(201, 75%, 41%), darkest: hsl(201, 75%, 36%) ), red: (...), gray: (...) ) @function palette($palette, $tone: 'base') { @return map-get(map-get($palettes, $palette), $tone); } This ends up looking like: `background-color…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1732
- Total comments
- 304
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-08 | Building Your Color Palette | tortilla | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-11-10 | Building your color paletteFirst breakout | tnorthcutt | 705 | 115 |
| 2020-11-22 | Building Your Color PaletteBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | clessg | 1019 | 189 |
| 2021-06-11 | Building Your Color Palette | 35_candelas | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-12-21 | Refactoring UI: Building Your Color PaletteHall induction | tipsytoad | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-03-19 | Building Your Color Palette | hidelooktropic | 1 | 0 |