> This is the first post I've seen on HN that actually captures how to properly set up your color palette.
This is just a Boostrap color palette that I see here and it would be nice if they'd been a bit more creative. Imagine if Rembrandt used Boostrap colors in all his paintings and all his peers copied him ... that would be a boring world, but alas, that's what the internet is currently like, and articles like these certainly don't help.
I don't understand this criticism. The article isn't about a specific palette, but rather rules of thumb for building your own. The hues they use in the examples are pretty bland, but the advice isn't "use these colors", it's "here's how to create a palette using colors of your choice".
The criticism is that they shouldn't use a palette as an example that everybody already uses. Instead they should show how their rules can help us arrive at something interesting and new.
Depending on your brand, boring might be a good thing. You don't want a backend business/reporting tool or data viz solution to go "wild" with its color palette; you want things to be readable and distinct without looking horrible. For that type of software, guides like this are great.
This is just a Boostrap color palette that I see here and it would be nice if they'd been a bit more creative. Imagine if Rembrandt used Boostrap colors in all his paintings and all his peers copied him ... that would be a boring world, but alas, that's what the internet is currently like, and articles like these certainly don't help.