Ironically, my complaint about the article was that the author apparently only uses typical human vision ranges here, rather than mapping 00..FFh onto an OKlab gradient of hue 0..359° that rewards those few of us with impeccable color fidelity with even better highlighting than most can see :) No doubt there’s value in contentful highlighting but I’d rather just have a straight hue translation on the circle at a fixed luminosity. There’s only 256 hues to discern, after all! And what a pleasure it would be to learn to read hex code by hue alone :D
for the record, i did use OKlab to pick my colors ! (see the CSS for my site https://github.com/simonomi/simonomi.github.io/blob/aa55ea85...) i'm not opposed to using a unique color per byte, but i didn't want 256 different CSS classes for byte coloring, so i manually picked the 16 most distinct hues i could
You did great! I could tell the colors were equidistant from how they resembled Penumbra’s schemes. I just have really abnormal vision and have spent several years reading raw hex codes for a project. So I crave more color, heh :D
Ironically, my complaint about the article was that the author apparently only uses typical human vision ranges here, rather than mapping 00..FFh onto an OKlab gradient of hue 0..359° that rewards those few of us with impeccable color fidelity with even better highlighting than most can see :) No doubt there’s value in contentful highlighting but I’d rather just have a straight hue translation on the circle at a fixed luminosity. There’s only 256 hues to discern, after all! And what a pleasure it would be to learn to read hex code by hue alone :D
for the record, i did use OKlab to pick my colors ! (see the CSS for my site https://github.com/simonomi/simonomi.github.io/blob/aa55ea85...) i'm not opposed to using a unique color per byte, but i didn't want 256 different CSS classes for byte coloring, so i manually picked the 16 most distinct hues i could
You did great! I could tell the colors were equidistant from how they resembled Penumbra’s schemes. I just have really abnormal vision and have spent several years reading raw hex codes for a project. So I crave more color, heh :D