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design.lyft.com is the company blog at design.lyft.com, writing about design and culture. Since 2018, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Re-Approaching Color (2018)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lyft Design's posts on color, including the approach behind ColorBox, a palette tool that keeps lightness consistent across hues so colors meet 4.5:1 contrast. Posts on building color palettes are also linked.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Re-Approaching Color (2018)7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2018-09-21
What Hacker News says?
https://design.lyft.com/hello-from-lyft-design-ea8a0b958628 "sharing our learnings" must be a xoogler in there somewhere
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on “ColorBox by Lyft Design”Submitted Re-Approaching Color (2018) as a story · 62 points
HN discussionThat was actually one of the goals with this system. From https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88 "Using our algorithm, we made our color lightness-to-darkness consistent across color hues, so that every color 0–50 is accessible (4.5:1) on black, and every color 60–100 is accessible (4.5:1) on white."
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on “ColorBox by Lyft Design”Submitted Re-approaching Color (2018) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionContext: https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88
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on “ColorBox by Lyft Design”Submitted Re-Approaching Color as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's an accompanying blog post here, surprised it's not higher: https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88
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on “ColorBox by Lyft Design”Submitted “That little island changes everything” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhether you see it as having science behind it or not really depends on what problem you're considering. There are some interesting in-depth articles about how people build those palettes and ramps that you might find interesting: https://uxplanet.org/designing-systematic-colors-b5d2605b15c https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88
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on “Building your color palette”Submitted “That little island changes everything” as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Designed to Last Well, I hope Jeff didn't put too much time into finding the color pallet. I don't want to be negative, but this background color just makes we want to run away/close the page. Maybe these links which I collected over the years can be helpful: - https://www.colorcombos.com - https://paletton.com - https://blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/ - https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c…
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on “This page is designed to last (2019)”See also Lyft's Colorbox: https://www.colorbox.io/ Announcement and motivation blog post: https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88 and HN discussion, 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21028361
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on “Show HN: IRIX – color scheme editor and color tools”
