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[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

But I just say “FFFFFFuck y000000u!”

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is actually my diagonal monitor background

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...can you post your monitor setup?

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me guess -- Java developer?

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

These look like Splatoon characters

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dunno if it counts as one or three gradients, but I really like this green/brown/gold gradations.

[–] Knuk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's mostly a "nature" gradient. Besides the sand the golden part also gets close to fallen leaves.

I used this gradient a lot of times when making websites in the past (before CSS was a thing, to give you an idea on how long it was), as it's colourful without being flashy.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Teal to orange

[–] tetrachromacy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Bianca_0089@lemmy.today 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

'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 points 1 year ago

Damn. Good answer

[–] myusernameis@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Trans Pride Flag as a Gradient

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

[–] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Greyscale.

I’m colorblind.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Tint, tone and shade FTW

[–] drail@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Heck, I’m just a fan of the electromagnetic spectrum in general!

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Purple-Cyan, or maybe Yellow-Cyan.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that fade from blue to purple

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] bazzett@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

My current favorite is the Nord theme/palette

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago
[–] radix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Black red orange yellow

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Dark purple, red, orange.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Neon purple and green!

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

The "Galaxy" blue/pink/purple/black

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

orange to brown

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Green to blue to purple in electric pastels

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Dark forest, chartreuse, toxic yellow

[–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Miami colors from the 80s

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Aquamarine to Black with a little gasoline spill in between

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