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by ro_dobre 756 days ago
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.

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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
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