Hacker News colors palette

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Created at 05/29/2018 07:36

The palette consists of Light, Dark colors. Accent colors Safety Orange #ff6600 and #f6f6ef. Palette has Warm, Neutral colors temperature.

By lightness, this palette runs from #000000 (darkest) to #FFFFFF (lightest). The lightness range is wide.

Overall saturation feels mostly muted (lower chroma) — 60% of colors are muted.

Most swatches are near-neutral or very low-chroma, so hue relationships are subtle.

Most swatches read as neutral in color temperature (4 of 5).

HEX codes (sorted): #000000, #828282, #F6F6EF, #FF6600, #FFFFFF

Palette Hacker News colors palette combines 5 color codes:

HEX: #ff6600, RGB: (255, 102, 0); HEX: #ffffff, RGB: (255, 255, 255); HEX: #000000, RGB: (0, 0, 0)

HEX: #f6f6ef, RGB: (246, 246, 239); HEX: #828282, RGB: (130, 130, 130)

Simplified version of palette colors

Tint of Orange Red, White, Black, Shade of Floral White, Tint of Grey

Color scheme was created by colorswall

Color codes in palette

Hacker News colors palette color codes HEX, RGB information in table

Color	HEX	RGB	Name	Alternative name
#ff6600	#ff6600	RGB(255, 102, 0)	—	Safety Orange
#ffffff	#ffffff	RGB(255, 255, 255)	—	White
#000000	#000000	RGB(0, 0, 0)	—	Black
#f6f6ef	#f6f6ef	RGB(246, 246, 239)	—	—
#828282	#828282	RGB(130, 130, 130)	—	Gray51

2 color pairs have low contrast and need improvement which may impact readability.

Text Color	Background Color	Contrast Ratio
#ff6600	#828282	1.3
#ffffff	#f6f6ef	1.08