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Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

(uchu.style)
681 points NetOpWibby | 4 comments | 16 Feb 25 22:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Hey everyone,

About a year ago I embarked on creating a color scheme for a project and I loved it so much I began using it for everything. I decided to make an official repo for it to share with the world.

Anyhoo, hope y'all enjoy it.

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xanderlewis ◴[17 Feb 25 00:08 UTC] No.43073231[source]▶
Is there any reason to use the word uchu? It seems like almost everything (colour schemes, AI models, startups, tools, apps, ...) is named using a single randomly-selected Japanese word these days. But... why?
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jhanschoo ◴[17 Feb 25 10:13 UTC] No.43077206[source]▶
I suppose that short Japanese words have the advantage of being something that the Anglosphere knows about enough to be acquainted with, distant enough to not have too many opinions about, while also being easily pronounceable from the transliteration. If so, I'm going to provide a few examples:

Other candidates with easily pronounceable romanizations (from an Anglophone perspective) that are more culturally proximate than Japanese: Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hawai'ian

Other candidates with easily pronounceable romanizations (from an Anglophone perspective) that are more culturally distant than Japanese: Other Austronesian languages including Tagalog and Malay/Indonesian. (and many others, but fewer speakers)

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1. YurgenJurgensen ◴[17 Feb 25 11:53 UTC] No.43077930[source]▶
Having heard enough Americans cringe-inducingly mangle Japanese, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. I had someone serve me an order of ’guy ohza’ just a couple of weeks ago. If the people selling the products can’t even pronounce the names correctly, I definitely don’t want to hear the customers’ attempts.
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2. GreenWatermelon ◴[17 Feb 25 13:17 UTC] No.43078686[source]▶
No, this is just how languages generally work, how loanwords come to be, and how cultures influence each other.
3. treyd ◴[17 Feb 25 15:57 UTC] No.43080232[source]▶
What's interesting to me is that a "good enough" approximation of Japanese phonology is pretty easy for native English speakers to express. The issue is just they have to understand the really consistent syllable structure to parse it out of the romaji.
4. jhanschoo ◴[17 Feb 25 15:58 UTC] No.43080244[source]▶
You have a point, English proper lacks the semivocalic-i after a consonant (as /Cj/), except where followed by /uː/. So also "Bee-ORN" for Björn, and "MA-fee-uh" instead of Italian "MA-fya" for mafia.