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Life & fun · April 25, 2013

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Finding the colours of the web

Finding the colours of the web launched on April 25, 2013 with 128 votes, #16 of 528 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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In plain words

Finding the Colours of the Web is a project that analyzes color patterns across websites by capturing screenshots and extracting color data. It uses crowdsourced information to answer questions about which colors are most common on the web, whether certain industries favor specific color palettes, and which colors typically appear together in designs. Rather than looking only at CSS colors, the tool examines actual website images to understand the full visual impression of web design. It is designed for designers and researchers curious about web design trends.

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From the sources

This project aims to uncover some insights about colours on the web, in particular, some questions I've struggled with as a designer. With a crowd-sourced data-set, the ultimate goal is to answer questions like: What is the most common colour/s or hue/s on the web? Do certain industries prefer certain colours over others? What colours are generally found together? Unfortunately, the colour that makes up a web design is not just the background and text colour found in the CSS. The overall impression of the website includes the images, so this app takes screenshots and analyses colour values of each pixel. This is not a 100% foolproof method, but screenshots are kept so they can be reanalysed…from webcolourdata.com

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