A while ago I got interested in computing on color, to help design sets of color palettes that account for both light and dark mode, and color-vision deficiency.
I wrote a collection of fun @observablehq.com notebooks - this seems a good excuse to discuss them
https://observablehq.com/@ijlyttle/color-space-viewer?collection=@ijlyttle/color
I wrote a collection of fun @observablehq.com notebooks - this seems a good excuse to discuss them
https://observablehq.com/@ijlyttle/color-space-viewer?collection=@ijlyttle/color
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https://observablehq.com/@ijlyttle/chroma-and-hue-in-color-spaces?collection=@ijlyttle/color
Using the interactive 3D viewer can give you an idea of how a of how a color space collapses under a *model* of color-vision deficiency.
https://observablehq.com/@ijlyttle/color-space-viewer?collection=@ijlyttle/color
https://observablehq.com/@ijlyttle/chroma-and-hue-in-color-spaces?collection=@ijlyttle/color
Luminance drives a color scale, distinguishes a color from its background. Equal steps in luminance is not constant across color-spaces:
https://observablehq.com/@ijlyttle/luminance-in-color-spaces?collection=@ijlyttle/color