
Pigmentoria - Chromatic Atlas
Hundreds of color palettes from art history
What it does
Most color tools generate palettes algorithmically. Pigmentoria reconstructs them from art history: real pigments, real materials, real constraints. 600+ palettes across painting, cinema, photography, and world traditions. 49 eras, 101 artists. A dedicated "Beyond Europe" section with Persian miniatures, Maya blue, Aboriginal ochre ( traditions rarely found in design tools). Free, no sign-up. Color as living history, not just hex values.
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I built PaletteInspiration.com, a browsable archive of color palettes pulled from artworks by 3,000+ master painters (Monet, Vermeer, Raphael, Van Gogh). Why I built it: every color palette generator I tried converged on the same five muted pastels. Painters spent centuries figuring out color and we mostly ignore that body of work when picking colors for digital design. Please share your feedback on the Color Harmony Explorer - drag the wheel to any color and it shows which hues master painters historically paired with it (not only standard complementary, analogous, triadic, etc.) It is…
- IMI made a new AI colorizer2022 · palette.fm · ▲472
Hi HN, I’m Emil, the maker behind Palette. I’ve been tinkering with AI and colorization for about five years. This is my latest colorization model. It’s a text-based AI colorizer, so you can edit the colorizations with natural language. To make it easier to use, I also automatically create captions and generate filters. Let me know what you think. You can see some of my results on my reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/user/emilwallner/?sort=top




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