I’ve bee putting in some work the last few weeks, and this thing is getting pretty nifty now. Also, wow, my UI doesn’t want to make me vomit anymore.

Faux Fur Finder

Functional & Major Changes

Palette builder

• “Add to Palette” checkbox on each card feeds a sticky, scrollable bottom tray showing swatch + name + hex for each saved color.
• Export palettes as an image or as text.
• On multi-color furs, clicking a single pie wedge adds just that color, while “Add to Palette” grabs all colors at once.

Color matching & multi-tone furs

• Switched color-distance matching from redmean RGB to CIEDE2000 (Lab-space), which is much more perceptually accurate.
• Added support for two-tone (diagonal split swatches) and rainbow/multi-color furs (rendered as pie-wedge swatches).
• New Tones for new furs, Multi-Colored, Spotted, Striped, and Animal Print.

Multi-vendor support

• Same fur sold by multiple retailers now merges into a single card showing every seller and price, sorted by best deal.
• “Starting at $X” and price filtering convert all listings to USD-equivalent and use the cheapest, while displayed prices still follow the currency toggle.
• A fur group is only marked “discontinued” if every vendor for it is discontinued — otherwise dropped vendors just quietly disappear from “Available From” and filters.

Filtering logic

• Weight filtering simplified to Light/Medium/Heavy classes instead of exact gram values (old raw Weight (g) filter removed).
• Pile Length now supports selecting multiple ranges at once instead of just one.

Multi-currency

• Live conversion and auto-sync across USD/yd, CAD/m, EUR/m, AUD/m, GBP/yd, and GBP/m using the Frankfurter API.

More Vendors

• Added CosmicFur, eFutro, Gummyshark, Hopen, Linda Wholesale, and NeoTrims.

UI/UX

• Collapsible “How to Use” box, now including sections on the palette builder and multi-color furs
• ‘More Filters’ option, 7 filters have been moved to under this dropdown.
• Width filter is now a smooth slider.
• Renamed “Main Color Family” → “Main Color” and “Secondary Color Family” → “Secondary Colors”
• Added a red “x” to clear individual filters, and renamed “Clear Filters” to “Clear All Filters”
• Vendor link buttons are color-coded and show price + vendor name directly on the button
• Next/prev page buttons now scroll back to top of results
• Yd Width (in) changed to Width

Minor Polishes

• Pagination and result counts now operate on merged vendor groups rather than raw database rows
• Cards per page reduced from 60 to 20
• The number of furs found is the actual number of distinct furs, not just furs totals.

There’s been a bunch of updates since I last posted about my faux fur database tool, aside from being renamed, so here they are.

The Faux Fur Finder!

Updates include

I’ve added a bunch of new vendors:

• Bartfeld
• Canfur
• Carniv Creations
• Fabricville
• FurAddiction
• Kullaloo
• MeiMeiFur
• Mofumofu (if anyone has swatch pictures, please share them!)
• Stoffhummel

I finally added BigZ Flokati / Lion’s Mane (why was there no category for it on their site!?)

I’ve also improved the page loading speed, so the database should be noticeably faster to load and use.

More Filters & Sorting

There are now a few more ways to narrow things down:

• Sort/filter by shipping country
• Switch pile length between inches and mm
• Price options for USD, CAD, AUD, EUR and GBP
• Weight class – light, medium, and heavy

Color Updates

I tweaked the formulas used for determining color families and removed the White/Cream secondary family, which was causing some weird classifications with the Creamy/Soft tone family.

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Things I’m Considering / Next Up

This is where I’d love some input from experienced makers and people who buy a lot of faux fur.

1. Ships From Filter

Would you rather I add the country alongside each vendor name, or keep the Ships From filter?

For example:

Fabricville – CAN

instead of having a separate shipping-country filter.

I’m leaning toward keeping the filter, but I’m curious what would actually be more useful when you’re trying to find fur.

2. Weight Classes

The current weight classes are pretty arbitrary, I made them up lol.

What weight ranges would actually make sense to you for Light / Medium / Heavy?

I’d especially love input from people who have bought a lot of different furs and have a good feel (pun intended) for what counts as light vs. medium vs. heavy.

3. New Vendors

Next on the list to add:

• Linda Wholesale
• Hopen Textile
• Gummyshark
• Mohair Bear Making Supplies
• CRS Fur Fabric

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The whole point of this project is to make comparing faux furs easier, so community input is extremely helpful. If you notice incorrect information, have swatch pictures for a vendor/fur that isn’t represented yet, or know of a vendor I should add, please let me know!

(this post is a near-copy of my post on reddit, but give it a read to see what else the community is saying)