Photograph: Stef Lewandowski
- When
- Jan 2018 →
- Stack
- JavaScript, Next.js, React, Firebase
- Outcome
- Over a million people had a Year of Colour report. Product Hunt's #5 product of the day on 1 January 2019, then a wave of press that week led by The Verge.
Year of Colour reads a year of your Instagram posts and turns them into a palette. You connected your account, it scrolled back through the year's images, pulled the most prominent colours out of each one, and gave you a colour report of your year.
I launched it in January 2018 as a Makelight side project, reading the colours of the previous year's posts. The 2018 edition, put on Product Hunt on 1 January 2019, was the one the press wrote about: number five product of the day, then The Verge and a week of coverage behind it. The 2020 edition ran at its own address, with an iOS app alongside the web version, and a beta was still running in 2024. The site is live today at yearofcolour.co.uk.
Pictures
Stef Lewandowski, 2018
Stef Lewandowski, 2018
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Stef Lewandowski, 2020
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Stef Lewandowski, 2020
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Stef Lewandowski
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Stef Lewandowski
Coverage
The Verge“Track the colors of your 2018 Instagram photos with this new web app”2019
“The app, Year of Colour, takes your snapshots of events and moments and distills them into an abstract time capsule of colored dots.”
Product Hunt“Year of Colour - What were your Instagram colours in 2018? (#5 Product of the Day)”2019
“Year of Colour is a data visualisation tool for Instagram that shows you the colours you've used in your posts throughout the year.”
TechRadar“Generate your own 2018 Instagram palette with Year of Colour”2019
“Year of Colour is a new web app that takes all the snaps you've shared over the last 12 months... and pulls out the dominant shades”
Trusted Reviews“Year of Colour breaks down your Instagram posts to help you rack up more Likes”2019
“Year of Colour shows you the colours that dominate your Instagram posts during a particular period of time”
designboom“'year of colour' app by makelight generates your instagram palette from 2018”2019
“The app takes information from your posts and generates an abstract color report based on your personal feed.”
PhoneArena“Turn your 2018 Instagram memories into a visual display of colored dots”2019
“A new web app called Year of Colour (via The Verge) will show you... which colors appeared most often on your Instagram photos in 2018”
TechNadu“'Year of Colour' App Allows You to Look Back at Your Instagram Year Through Colors”2019
“London-based venture builder Stef Lewandowski released a web app that creates mosaic patterns out of people's Instagram posts.”
Social Samosa“How to track the colors of your Instagram photos 2018 with Year Of Colour app”2019
“How to track the colors of your Instagram photos 2018 with Year Of Colour app”
Genbeta“Descubre la paleta de colores que domina tu Instagram”2019
“esta otra llamada Year of Colour (año de color) para descubrir tu paleta de colores en la red social durante 2018”
DutchCowboys“Year of colour: welke kleuren gebruikte jij het afgelopen jaar op Instagram”2019
“De bedenker van de app is Stef Lewandowski die hem in zijn vrije tijd in elkaar wist te hacken.”
WeRSM“This Web App Lets You Create A Palette Of Colours Based On Your Instagram Images”2019
“Created as a side-project by Stef Lewandowski... Year of Colour is a web app that lets you create a palette of colours from your Instagram photos.”
Product Hunt“Year of Colour 2020 - Find out which colours you most used on Instagram this year”2020
“It's a side project that I've been working on for a few years and has had about a million people use it over that time.”
Around the same time
- The ICE ListProjects · 2018
- ING LabsWork · 2018
- React Bulma Components NextProjects · 2018
- The ICE ListCulture · 2019
Earlier in data art: Gesture-controlled viewer for Andrew Lamb's Lenticular Changing Colour Ring.