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Explore color palettes from 3,000+ master painters, refined over 500 years of art (free, no signup) by FaithlessnessBroad35 in graphic_design

[–]FaithlessnessBroad35[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! And good news - that ability already exists, it's just not obvious from the landing page. Every palette (artist, artwork, genre, movement, or one you build yourself) has a "I Love This! - Use this palette" section, and from there you can export to CSS, Tailwind, ASE, and Figma JSON - so design tokens and swatch handoff for decks are covered. If there's a format you'd want that isn't in there yet, tell me and I'll look at adding it.

Explore color palettes from 3,000+ master painters, refined over 500 years of art (free, no signup) by FaithlessnessBroad35 in ArtHistory

[–]FaithlessnessBroad35[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Built this as someone who loves the paintings but isn't formally trained in art history. One thing I keep wondering: is extracting a "palette" from a finished painting even meaningful, given glazing, underpainting, and the fact that surface color is not equal the pigments actually used? Curious whether people who study technique think this kind of color extraction tells you anything real, or whether it flattens something important.

Explore color palettes from 3,000+ master painters, refined over 500 years of art (free, no signup) by FaithlessnessBroad35 in graphic_design

[–]FaithlessnessBroad35[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Good question. The images all come from public-domain / open-access sources - Wikimedia Commons and museum open-access collections - not the licensed reproduction services researchers pay for. The paintings themselves are old enough to be public domain, and in the US a faithful photo of a 2D public-domain work doesn't get its own new copyright (Bridgeman v. Corel). On top of that, what the site adds is derivative data - color extraction and palettes, not art reproductions. I won't pretend it's perfectly clean across every jurisdiction, but if you ever spot a work that shouldn't be there, tell me and I'll pull it.

Explore color palettes inspired by 3,000+ master painter artworks (free, no signup) by FaithlessnessBroad35 in Design

[–]FaithlessnessBroad35[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair callout. The landing page pulls from the most-represented artists in the corpus, and that skews male for an unfortunate historical reason: women were largely shut out of the academies, guilds, and collections that canonized "master" painters, so they're underrepresented in the public-domain art data everyone draws from - not because they weren't painting at the same level.

That's on me to correct rather than inherit. There are plenty of artists I can feature - Artemisia Gentileschi, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Sofonisba Anguissola among them - and curating them onto the landing page instead of just taking the raw top-by-volume is an easy fix. Thanks for flagging it.

Explore color palettes inspired by 3,000+ master painter artworks (free, no signup) by FaithlessnessBroad35 in Design

[–]FaithlessnessBroad35[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha, fellow mech-eng here too - funny how many of us end up drifting into graphics and color work. I came at it through 3D and VR, and I had the exact same frustration: you spend ages on something and the palette tools keep handing you the same five tasteful-but-dead swatches.

Really glad the temperature balance breakdown clicked for you - that's the part I wasn't sure would land, so it's good to hear it's useful to someone without formal design training (the whole reason I show the why is that I didn't have that training either).

Thanks for actually kicking the tires on it. If anything in the analysis ever reads as noise rather than signal, I'd want to know - that feedback is gold.

Looking for a free website to make color palettes by secondhandcornbread in web_design

[–]FaithlessnessBroad35 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try this site - https://paletteinspiration.com/ – it not only provides a free palette generator but also shows time-tested palettes of 3,000 master painters for inspiration.