TLDR
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Palette Inspiration lets you browse, search, and filter color palettes extracted from Old Masters paintings across a library of 3000 artworks.
Key Takeaways
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Covers 3000 master painter artworks as the palette source corpus.
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Palettes are framed as empirically proven color combinations validated through centuries of fine art practice.
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Browse, search, and filter UI targets artists and designers needing historically grounded color references.
Hacker News Comment Review
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An API endpoint has been requested by at least one practitioner planning weekly use; the builder confirmed it is planned.
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Commenters flagged the scroll-triggered automatic page switching as a jarring UX pattern worth removing.
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Integration with frontend design system libraries was proposed as a natural next step to make palettes directly actionable for UI work.
Notable Comments
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@oybng: “automatic page switching on scroll… I absolutely hate it” – specific UX friction the builder should address.
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@thangalin: flags a broken contact email and links a related color-palette-from-art resource for reference.
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