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Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

(uchu.style)
681 points NetOpWibby | 1 comments | 16 Feb 25 22:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Hey everyone,

About a year ago I embarked on creating a color scheme for a project and I loved it so much I began using it for everything. I decided to make an official repo for it to share with the world.

Anyhoo, hope y'all enjoy it.

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dcchambers ◴[17 Feb 25 03:50 UTC] No.43074937[source]▶
I'm confused by the usage of the word color scheme.

To me a color scheme is something like monokai. A small number of colors that go well together. The application (eg syntax highlighting in a code editor) is obvious and easy. This is just...lots of monochrome colors? How would I use this? Not trying to be dismissive, I'm just confused.

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MortyWaves ◴[17 Feb 25 10:42 UTC] No.43077407[source]▶
I'm also equally confused how essentially a list of boxes with colours gets 476 points.
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culi ◴[17 Feb 25 16:09 UTC] No.43080368[source]▶
Choosing a color palette is actually quite a difficult task from a design perspective. You have to take into account color contrast and many other accessibility measures. When I start small projects I often reach for Open Color[0] or TW's palette[1] (even if I don't use TW) because they've done all that work for me. Having a third option to choose from is something I look forward to

[0] https://yeun.github.io/open-color/

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/docs/colors

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MortyWaves ◴[17 Feb 25 16:44 UTC] No.43080775[source]▶
Which is even more frustrating that the linked site does not have a good set of colours per the comments...
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1. culi ◴[17 Feb 25 17:40 UTC] No.43081426{3}[source]▶
Yeah I posted before seeing the reviews about the a11y shortcomings. I probably won't include this palette into my rotation after all