An up-to-date, modern thread brand colour picker 🧵🌈 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys!

As part of ClickStitch I've has to store threads from multiple brands and ended up creating this fun colour picker!

https://clickstitch.app/tools/thread-brand-finder

📅 Up-to-date

I've written a script that will retrieve all threads listed on the brand websites to ensure new ones are available.

Currently a total of 1683 threads exist, split as:

DMC: 665
Anchor: 484
Madeira: 379
Kreinik: 155

But there are many more so these will come in the future!

🎯 Accuracy

All stored threads are compared, and the thread with the closest RGB value is chosen per brand.

🎇 Modern

Find your colour using a colour picker, no need to go through hundreds of colours and codes manually!

Hopefully it's useful, what other brands would you like to see?

Any bugs or suggestions let me know! Best way is via Discord: https://clickstitch.app/discord

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the feedback, I'll reduce the resizing! At some point I'd like some options to be configurable (such as filtering on metallic threads etc) so that height may change a lot

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

More than anything, I think you can just make the "Finding Thread" container bigger, to match the size of the 4 results (which seems to be the usual limit?)

One solution that comes to mind would be to match the previous results-container height on the searching-container? Then you only get resizes if the number of results differ

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've updated it so that the loading text replaces the textbox content. No more resizing and the colours will transition nicely!

this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025

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