Comment by altairprime
1 day ago
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