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Re:Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette... by solasluaith on Friday August 05, 2022 @08:02AM (#32354888)
In this case, I was trying to keep the actual code as “flat” as possible, while offering exactly that pleasing sense of depth for the UI. For the latter, it could probably be better utilised in the VSCode extension but I hope at least the colours offer a good basis to work off of.

Imho OKLab should be the defacto standard for designing with colour, I’m a big fan. Using the colour space based on the display technology never really made sense in this context as we are designing for humans and the display is merely a constraint.

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Re:Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette... by klabb3 on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:57PM (#32361214)
> Imho OKLab should be the defacto standard for designing with colour

Agreed. It's a little challenging to make color picking UIs and programmatic interfaces I guess. Before seeing oklab in action, I never knew just how distorted a typical HSV picker is, it doesn't map to our vision at all.

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