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Ask HN: Measuring the Aesthetic Quality of a Set of Colors?

For a side project I would like to automatically determine the aesthetic quality of a set of colors. I was wondering if there are metrics by which I could measure it.

For instance if I had these two 'color schemes':

  http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com/archive/2006/09/20
  http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com/archive/2006/09/19
could I objectively (for some value of objective) tell which one is 'better'? The only metrics I found on the net so far seem to be rather ad-hoc measurements of how well the set of colors is 'analogic' or 'complementary'. Since I want to write a program to make the measurements, a more structured apporach would help me.

Do you have any pointers or ideas for this problem, HN? Thank you!

18 points fp 16 years ago 17 comments

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