David Aerne

David Aerne

@meodai.color.pizza

Self-employed Design & Interaction Developer at Elastiq Ltd. Independent researcher exploring color perception, palette tools, and interface design through prototyping.

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Wikipedia
@wikipedia.org

Developed by Neal Agarwal, Wiki Spy takes images from Wikipedia and turns them into endless collages. Search for a specific topic or enjoy mysterious images in the shuffle mode ➡️ neal.fun/wiki-spy/

David Aerne
@meodai.color.pizza

I bought it! Its great so far. Hope it will incentivise myself to do more videos about my stuff.

Brookie@brookie.blog

try screenie to record your announcement videos !! :)

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Brookie
@brookie.blog

hi, i made a screen recorder !!! it's called Screenie and it's out now ❣️ it follows your mouse and zooms where you click, smooths your cursor, has pretty backgrounds, blurs private stuff and a lot more. no account needed and everything stays on your mac <3 try 4 free at screenie.cam

David Aerne
@meodai.color.pizza

By the way. All the color information for each image is in this handy data-set: github.com/meodai/art-c...

github.comGitHub - meodai/art-colors: The colors of open-access artworks: a palette for every work, CC0The colors of open-access artworks: a palette for every work, CC0 - meodai/art-colors
David Aerne@meodai.color.pizza

The art section on every color page got better! Switch to palettes: each picture becomes the colors extracted from it... Plus: hide the title, let the rows drift, filter by art, pop culture or wiki, and copy any picture's colors with their names. names.color.pizza/color/berry-...

David Aerne
@meodai.color.pizza

Fascinating to compare traffic with adoptions on names.color.pizza. The first wave of supporters were people who already knew me or my work. It's awesome to see total strangers adopting colors too, thanks to a newsletter and Hacker News & reddit

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Andriy Lukin
@andriylukin.bsky.social

I still have time to take on more projects in December, February and onwards! so if you were thinking of commissioning a logo or other graphic before the planned 20% price increase, please reach out before November 1st! Let's design something cool together 🙂

Andriy Lukin@andriylukin.bsky.social

hi all, I'm open to take on more design work! 👋 whether you wish to elevate your project with a custom-made logotype or need a stylish design to compliment your art, I'd like to help you with that! here's a selection of my works, for more examples and info please come visit andriylukin.com ✌️

David Aerne
@meodai.color.pizza

Making it to the HN front page -> 🥹 Opening the comments ->🫠 A double-edged sword, really. Love the attention, question my life choices.

HN@hnws.bsky.social

Color Names comments · posted on 2026.10.20 at 12:27:56 (c=1, p=3)

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Brookie
@brookie.blog

wrote a response to @debbieohi.com’s blog post about DIY watercolor kits :) if you have one too, don’t be shy ! let’s see it ⭐️ brookie.blog/i-love-makin... #artsky #watercolor #blogsky

brookie.blogi love making DIY watercolor palettes too.there’s just something about a little compact kit that’s easy to take with me. (even though i haven’t taken one with me in a while)
Debbie Ridpath Ohi@debbieohi.com

#OneThingIveLearned: Making DIY travel art kits is fun! Plus super-handy for when you're supposed to do a live drawing demo at the New York Times office & your regular art supplies never arrived (!). #KidLit #ArtSky

onething.pckt.blogI love making DIY watercolor kits (also drawing potatoes)I'm a longtime fan of DIY (Do-It-Yourself) art kits that I can take with me when on the road. Yes, I do still have commercial travel art kits as well....but I find that just like expensive art supplies, I tend to put these aside to save them for special occasions, to not waste them for casual drawing. As years pass, I've been trying to change that habit, but I'll save for that for another post. Here's one of the photos I took when working on various types of DIY watercolor travel kits: I ended u...
David Aerne
@meodai.color.pizza

Only 2 spots left for founding patrons of names.color.pizza Thank you so much for all the support. I'm honestly overwhelmed by the response and so happy that my idea of asking people to help fund the infrastructure behind my open-source work turned out to be a good one. ❤️ THANK YOU!

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Björn Ottosson - making Island Architect
@bottosson.bsky.social

Seeing Oklab enjoyed and used by so many is mind-boggling! I still can’t quite comprehend that I wrote a blog post that ended up as a web standard and in software everywhere. Best part is seeing so many people say they enjoy Oklab and that it is a tool they regularly use.

Xor@xordev.com

If you need a random color (e.g. procedurally coloring objects), you should use Oklab or Oklch color space instead of RGB or HSV. RGB may span the whole spectrum, but it does not pick fairly (leaning dark/muddy). Oklab is designed to more closely map to how we perceive color

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kepano
@stephango.com

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

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business goose🪿
@goose.art

I adopted Watermelon! My bowtie color on goose.business/brand 🙂‍↕️

names.color.pizzaWatermelon (#fd4659)Juicy pink, straight from the rind of a summer melon. The watermelon is a species of flowering plant in the family Cucurbitaceae. It is a scrambling and…
Brookie@brookie.blog

I adopted Snot Green on Color Names. names.color.pizza/color/snot-g...

names.color.pizzaSnot Green (#9dc100)Freshly picked, like a kid's finger after a good blow. The nasal mucosa lines the nasal cavity. It is part of the respiratory mucosa, the mucous membrane…