Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
- ID
- 10838
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 04 Aug 2026, 11:16 PM
- Fetched
- 07 Aug 2026, 12:51 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Excerpt
Hello HN!I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy.I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has.The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for others as I have found it! There's lots of room for improvements (see the Future Work section), but I'm really happy with how it turned out. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170165 Points: 613 # Comments: 99
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