Favorite colors are lame. What is your favorite color gradient?

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TheRaven@lemmy.ca · 56 pts · 1y (1 reply)

White to black, because people say that white and black aren’t colours.

But I just say “FFFFFFuck y000000u!”

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

They're not hues, but they are colors, which is a combination of hue, saturation, and brightness.

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

my fav color is clear, so my fav gradient would be opacity

friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

I was going for something similar with 75% opaque at the top and 0% opaque at the bottom, known as a neutral density gradient in photography, often used in landscape photographs to balance the bright sky against the less bright ground or water. This is a great one for me since I'm color blind.

NorthWestWind@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y (5 replies)

This is actually my diagonal monitor background

bitfucker@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

...can you post your monitor setup?

NorthWestWind@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

rtxn@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

That's not the kind of diagonal I expected. I thought it would be something like this:

rtxn@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Let me guess -- Java developer?

NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 1y

These look like Splatoon characters

lvxferre@mander.xyz · 17 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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Knuk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That reminds me of swimming in rivers in the forest, the sand looks golden like that through the water

lvxferre@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
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Evkob@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y

The background of all my devices is a gradient version of the bisexual flag, so I guess that'd be my fav gradient!

tetrachromacy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

The colors that appear in the sky during a sunset. Beautiful blues, purples and oranges, slowly dimming until it disappears over the horizon.

Corno@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y

Teal to orange

Bianca_0089@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

'videogame ice effect'

I seriously love the over-the-top ice shaders used in all those early 2000s games. Ice always looked amazing, just this super bright white with pearlescent whitish-blue highlights that shimmered at odd angles and stuff. It's so cool.

Like the bridge tunnel in IceFields from HaloPC in 2003.

Or the almost-fully-transparent ice tunnel in Crysis Warhead (and firefall. Firefall had AMAZING ice shaders, it had some direction-based visual stuff going on where it had volumetric speckles all throuought the foot-thick ice).

Honestly: ice-themed anything looks cool to me, color-wise

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y

Damn. Good answer

myusernameis@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y

Trans Pride Flag as a Gradient

I mean yes, because that, but also it's just pretty.

Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Greyscale.

I’m colorblind.

Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Tint, tone and shade FTW

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Ultraviolet to gamma-ray gradient, with a polkadot pattern overlay.

pennomi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
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drail@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1y

Cividis. Perceptually uniform gradient colormaps are fun for the whole family

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Purple-Cyan, or maybe Yellow-Cyan.

dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y (5 replies)

that fade from blue to purple

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I got kind of sick of it for a while, because it was the latest clashy combo used by tech marketing, but it is legitimately pretty soothing

I wonder if orange+red is next

dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

oh, interesting - yeah, I try not to let the marketing dominate my associations, but tbh it's impossible to control that; blue does seem to be a corporate favorite.

I usually think about the time I spent as a kid looking at a cylindrical bulb that had a rainbow color spectrum, I loved the color and especially the blues.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I'm sure that's a better way to be - to like what you like and disregard marketing trends

dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It might just be that I don't watch TV adverts and I use uBlock origin so I don't see ads online, so my main marketing comes from native ads (like stories on the radio) or billboards when driving places. I guess I mean the environment determines whether how those associations are built, for example I will forever associate British Petroleum with dinosaurs because my parents taped a dinosaur special on VHS and the big BP oil spill had happened so they were running lots of repetitive ads, so to get through my educational dinosaur show I had to at the very least regularly fast forward through these ads.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y

I also don't see actual adverts. By marketing I should've specified I mean more like branding, trendy website design, posters, etc.

Like when Facebook's Messenger took on the indigo/blue gradient I knew it had reached full orange/blue levels of saturation.

radix@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Red/Silver

bazzett@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Something like this Firefox theme, but with some violet mixed in.

intensely_human@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Blue to yellow, duh

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Slava Ukraini!

intensely_human@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Not because of that

dditty@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

My current favorite is the Nord theme/palette

Varyk@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

Purple

tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Black red orange yellow

leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y

it may not sound like colors at all, but it is peach-salmon.

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

Light Blue to Blue.
Range (RGB): Around 0,230,255 to about 0,170,255

stelelor@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Dark purple, red, orange.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y

Dark forest, chartreuse, toxic yellow

HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone · 1 pts · 1y

Aquamarine to Black with a little gasoline spill in between

klemptor@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y

Green to blue to purple in electric pastels

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y

The "Galaxy" blue/pink/purple/black

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

orange to brown

BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I guess what I would consider "electric blue": sky blue paired with a lighter navy blue.

jaemo@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

http://seaviewsensing.com/pub/cpt-city/

Here: Have some gradient tech. I used these to program gradients for my esp32 powered holiday display.

HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Miami colors from the 80s

Mango@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Neon purple and green!

Asudox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Check my profile banner and you'll see.