Palette For Mac

A menu bar based colour contrast analyser

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A menu bar based colour contrast analyser

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Palette For Mac

Maker

Hey guys, So over the last week I've been learning how to build an Electron app and Palette is my first stab at a real product. Palette is a simple colour (color 😉 ) contrast analyser (z?) for Mac allowing you to check your RGB, #HEX or CSS named colours right from your Mac's menubar. Let me know what you think and as always, if there are any bugs let me know :) Ohh and of course, there's a steady stream of emoji's in there (just for Ryan)

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10yr ago

ntwrk

Good design. Would be helpful to know what the big number is (i.e. what units? what is it out of? etc.). Also, would be cool if it made suggestions to increase contrast.

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10yr ago

Palette For Mac

Maker

@joshuapinter Great idea about the colour suggestions, not sure how best to implement but I'll take a look. In terms of the bigger number, it's to do with the relative luminance of the foreground colour to the background colour. Take a look at a little more detail here: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WC...

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10yr ago

ntwrk

@se4nn Not sure either, but a simple "Increase contrast" or something that would use some smarts to diverge the colours in such a way to increase the contrast would be cool. Thanks for the detail on the relative luminance value. Would be good to highlight that number a bit more. No joke, I almost lost it in the UI as I was only looking at the button generated and not at the big number at the top. :thumbs-up:

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10yr ago

Palette For Mac

Maker

@joshuapinter Cool I will look into that for v2 alongside a nice colour picker ;) I'll be sure to post it here when I get round to it and let you know too :) Yeah an increase contrast button would be cool, I'll look into the logistics of it :)

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10yr ago

Since this is built with Electron, you should compile this to three OSes,using Electron. Electron offers this option. You do not need to install other OSes. You can use only Mac to compile. Developers, please, read two tutorials: https://www.christianengvall.se/... http://www.eikospartners.com/blo... Or use electron-builder, which is official.

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8yr ago

Cleveroad

Hi guys, will it work on MacOS 10.10?

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10yr ago

Palette For Mac

Maker

@ealtynpara it should do yes, I haven't tested it but it should work back to 10.9 😊

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10yr ago

@ealtynpara it doesn't works on 10.12

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10yr ago

It doesn't open on Siera :(

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10yr ago

Palette For Mac

Maker

@ijan I'm on Sierra and it does on my machine, plus a few friends who have personally tested it for me, do you get any specific bugs?

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10yr ago

@se4nn nothing appears after I hit the open from the dialog modal. But after checking the Activity Monitor noticed that it runs in bg. Weird. I will do a system restart.

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10yr ago

Palette For Mac

Maker

@ijan Check your menu bar, as it should be running in there :)

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10yr ago

@se4nn After restart it appears on the menu bar. Thanks a lot.

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10yr ago

Palette For Mac

Maker