I use Linux Mint Cinnamon and want to rice my DE in the style of my bubblegum colored framework laptop 12.
I have installed the quarz chicle theme (you can find it on /s/Cinnamon ) and figured out how to change the color of that theme in the config file.
My problem now is that I cant find a Hex code, that matches the outside of my laptop. I searched for the bubblegum colorscheme and came to #ffb6c1, however, this is a bit too redish compared to the outside of the laptop. This fits the promo pictures of the laptop (as picking a color code from there leads to a similar color), but not really how it looks in reality. The reality is a bit more pinkish.
I tried to matching it manually with tools, where you can slide around on a color palette and it gives you the hex code, but i couldn’t pinpoint it there either.
What do you think, which Hex code matches the real color of the bubblegum framework 12 the best?
I don’t have that laptop, so I can’t give you an exact hex code, but what I will say is that when colour matching things, it is often easier to put the colour picker into HSL mode (or HSV if that works better for you) instead of RGB. In RGB mode you are playing with the hue and saturation all at the same time, so you end up wandering quite a bit and it is difficult to know if you are getting closer to the colour you want or farther away. In HSL mode the hue, saturation, and lightness are all separate. This means that you can find the same colour easily (the hue), and then match the saturation afterwards along with the lightness to get it to look the same.
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Thank you, that was actually helpful. On reddit I just got back, that I should give up, as the color of the body changes with the light and someones solution to that was to use the camera as a light sensor and make the system change color accordingly (which, tbh, would be very cool, but i don’t have the skill for that).
But with a HSL color picker, it is actually a lot easier to finetune my desired color.
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use the camera as a light sensor and make the system change color accordingly
Ha! That would indeed be an interesting thing, although I’m not sure it would be worth the effort. I think there is also a brightness sensor next to the camera, which could be used for that.