iWantHue Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• Extreme Daylight Saving: What would it look like if sunrise was always kept between 6 and 7 AM? [OC]

  I used a dizzying array of tools to pull this off. Labor-sheds for Regional Analysis by Chris Fowler, Penn State Univ., was the source of the city-regions map data and central cities used for calculation. JPL Horizons provided the sunrise data. QGIS did most of the heavy lifting, with assists by LibreOffice Calc, Notepad++, and Mapshaper. Iwanthue gave me the color scheme. The compositing was done in Inkscape, and... - Source: Reddit / 11 months ago

• Simplest way to call this js library from my R scripts?

  I quite like the color palettes generated by I want hue. I'd like to write an R wrapper around the js library for this tool. - Source: Reddit / 12 months ago

• AMA with Topi Tjukanov mapbox Senior Map Designer and Organiser of #30DayMapChallenge Ask Me Anything

  I also often use some colour palette tools, like iWantHue. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Show HN: Hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors

  Looks really good. I would love to be able to generate HCL palettes like https://medialab.github.io/iwanthue/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Creating a tool to pick a random, unused color?

  I'd suggest to create a color palette at https://medialab.github.io/iwanthue/. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• [OC] FC Bayern München Bundesliga Scores Season 2020-2021

  Please choose colors which are optimized for differentiation. Websites like I want hue or color brewer can help you pick them, and can optimize for color blindness, which impacts about 5% of people. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Titanic survival by gender and class. Learning R for the first time and the power of ggPlot

  Another good site is https://medialab.github.io/iwanthue/ it can build lists of colourblind friendly combinations and give you the hex code. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• [OC] Most Popular Pizza Brand by State. Courtesy of SafeGraph.

  I highly recommend using more distinct colors for categorical data like this. My go-to for color selection is ColorBrewer. Sometimes I'll play around with I want hue, especially if I want distinct colors within particular luminance bounds. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• An apple a day, might keep the doctor away, but it definitely doesn’t contain the most vitamins and minerals in comparison to other fruits! [OC]

  OP clearly needs to know about http://vrl.cs.brown.edu/color and https://medialab.github.io/iwanthue/. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago

• Creating a list of unique colors to iterate through for a scatter plot

  I use iWantHue which generates optimally distinct colors for data scientists. I've used this to generate 40+ unique colours that contrast well with each other . You can copy the JSON hex list and change the square brackets to () and store in an R variable. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago