Color is something that people take for granted or think of as trivial but it's actually rather complicated. There are some colors that can't be represented in print and some colors that can't be represented on a monitor. There are several different color spaces (RGB cube, L ＊a ＊b ＊, etc.) It doesn't help that CSS3 and HTML4 color modules are terrible (the darkest octant of the sRGB cube is empty and most of the colors are too saturated or and too light). [1]
I had thought about that, and/or have it show information about the colour, but decided against it in the end as I really like the single purpose nature of it.
I've also always quite liked the thought of people loading the site for the first time and not being sure if it's finished loading as nothing appears but the background colour, so then refreshing to reload the site, only to see the colour change and realise that the site is exactly what it says it is.
Am I the only one pained that none of the favicon, the "KNOOP" title, the links on the right, or the article's hyperlinks matched #FF4A00, or even eachother, even before I saw it? :D :D
Nice eye. I think over time the color got subtly shifted by a few percentage points here and there. Nonetheless, the color you see today is directly influenced by that early random decision.
We like to call ourselves "zap-ee-er" but I'll accept any pronunciation since that means you're talking about us!
Fun side note. We integrate with a lot of European and Australian companies. Most of the time on intro calls they default to the more "French" sounded version ”zap-ee-air” whereas most of the US companies seem to default to a more "English" pronunciation "zay-pee-er".
When I first learnt about orangered ten days ago, it felt like "too much was going on", but an experiment showed that slightly more than half of surveyed users prefer it over #CCCCFF.
Interesting. It reminds me of this campaign I was going to start called the Facebook 300 Diet. The goal was to remove all of the non-essential cruft friends from your Facebook account to clean up your network to the most essential 300 friends. I created criteria to help you determine which friends should be removed and which ones should stay. The color #FB300D.
I probably wrote code to perform at least two dozen of these kinds of tasks for my last business and I'll probably be a customer for my next business. This definitely creates a lot of value for non-technical small businesses.
However, I'm not sure your landing page does a great job of communicating your product's value to non-technical people.
Thanks for the reply, I hope you didn't think I was just being a naysayer. This seems like a critical problem for marketing, if you have two audiences and you're catering to the smaller one. If it were me (grain of salt) I would go all in on something like "Zapier gives your employees superpowers".
Plenty. I can do it, to a certain degree of accuracy. At least enough of a degree that there won't be a more accurate english word for the color in my vocabulary.
It helps to remember that:
1. #RRGGBB
2. B + G = Cyan
3. R + B = Magenta
4. R + G = Yellow
5. Equal amounts of all three channels = Gray
6. #000000 = Black
7. #FFFFFF = White
Think of the rgb color space as a cube, with each of Black, White, Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow on the vertices. Then you define any hex color as point somewhere in this cube and it's pretty easy to imagine what it'll look like.
In my 20's I've done a lot of web design for about 5 years. After 2, maybe 3, years I could "see" the colors and their nuances in the hex codes. More interesting was the reverse lookup, seeing a color and visualizing the hex for it. Fun times. Not sure I still can do it...besides the most obvious ones. But then I was not bad, about 90-95% accuracy ( measured on the deviation of the light/color wavelength ).
Huh? How would you determine if something was randomly chosen based on a single selection? Given all the colors available, is #FF4A00 not a possible selection in your function?
Regardless, this is incredible nitpicking. "Pick one randomly" from the human brain obviously specifies a bad PRNG. Who cares?
You're correct in pointing out that the odds of #FF4A00 being selected randomly are the same as the odds of #EAF7C2 being selected randomly; just as the odds of the Powerball numbers 1 2 3 4 5 P6 being selected randomly are just the same as the odds of the Powerball numbers 1 36 40 52 53 P20 being selected randomly. However, the odds of the former sets being selected non-randomly are greater.
Whenever I pick random colors, they always suck. Most of the time it's an ugly shade of green or yellow or something. This made me wonder whether it was really randomly chosen from all colors, or a random existing color. I didn't mean to nitpick.
[1]http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/Dictionaries#CSS3
EDIT: I used full width asterisks (U+FF0A) because I wanted to write L ＊a ＊b ＊ without inserting white space after regular asterisks (U+002A).