[muratsu]

This is really cool. We've recently built a website catalog (https://www.rapidpages.com/inspire) and one of the difficult choices we needed to make was whether to include images on the site or not when extracting the color palettes. I'm curious if you've also experimented with this?

[ro_dobre]

The site is looking great! I think that screenshots are a must, it's a lot easier for the end-user to preview the website's content. If you're referring to screenshots where certain colors are used, I don't think that's necessary.

The first version of it, I didn't take any screenshots and it felt very empty. It's a bit hard to manage the images and deliver them rapidly, in an optimized form, but I think it's worth it.

[muratsu]

Oh, I was referring to calculating colors used on a website. To give you an example, we've stumbled upon pages where there's a product on the page that contained the color red, and nowhere else on the page was anything red. Our naive approach to finding avg colors was to simply take a screenshot of the page and process that image. Unfortunately, this method produces inaccurate results like red being part of the average colors when the design system has no red. I was curious if you managed to work around this issue. Happy to chat more if you're interested, you can reach me at murat[at]rapidpages.io

[ro_dobre]

Ah, sorry, I understand what you mean now. Yeah, I've also filtered out images when calculating the color percentages and there are definitely some funky results.

There's definitely a middle-ground approach here, I just haven't found a good enough heuristic. It's true that images are part of the branding and they impact the color palette, like banners and logos, so they should be considered in some quantity. I thought of maybe averaging the results of image/no image but I don't have enough test data to validate it yet.

Let's chat and discuss more! I'll also add you on Twitter/X