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What's my JND?

a colour guessing game

Details

External ID
47321188
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
What's my JND?
Website domain
keithcirkel.co.uk
Launched
March 10, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
56
Upvotes percentile
0.8480934809348093
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-color/

Enrichment

Theme
indie puzzle games and learning toys
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Content generation
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
color perception game
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a single-page interactive color perception game running color-difference math (OKLab / Delta E OK) on HTML canvas or CSS elements.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: The Music Lab - similar tone discrimination test, Keith Cirkel's JND test

Concerns raised: Display quality and color space conformance affects results, Human perception varies by color - some examples feel impossible while others trivial, Oklab JND terminology confusing and potentially inaccurate compared to CIELAB, Colors outside sRGB gamut get clipped differently on various displays, Selection bias in who posts scores

Feature requests: Add "Same color" button option for some tests, Use canvas instead of div to prevent cheating via console inspection, Avoid high saturation colors (>60%) to reduce out-of-gamut issues

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 107 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #17 of 108 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 132 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a content generation tool for Government yet.