Mini Solar

This post is third in a series. I started by attempting to improve Solarized a little, then tried to make it significantly better by redoing everything, and in this post I simplify it.

Ah, I could not stand wasting hex digits on the shades of gray! This new set of colours doesn’t have the smooth hue transition – which is impossible to achieve in 4 bits per channel – but they work fine anyway: the dark ones have OKLCH hue 196 while the light ones have hue 107, so it’s basically dual-tone, except for the middle one, which suppresses both the red (like the dark colours) and the blue (like the light colours), leading to hue 145.

To work on both light and dark backgrounds, the red and magenta should be a tiny little brighter than the previous attempt. Against the respective backgrounds:

{ "name": "minisolar backgrounds"
, "hues":
  [
    { "name": "light"
    , "colors": [ "#FFE", "#EED", "#CCB", "#AA9", "#898", "#577", "#355", "#133", "#022" ]
    },
    { "name": "dark"
    , "colors": [ "#022", "#133", "#355", "#577", "#898", "#AA9", "#CCB", "#EED", "#FFE" ]
    }
  ]
}

{ "name": "minisolar colours"
, "hues":
  [
    { "name": "light"
    , "colors": [ "#FFE", "#577", "#E34", "#C60", "#A80", "#890", "#2A9", "#28C", "#77D", "#C4B" ]
    },
    { "name": "dark"
    , "colors": [ "#022", "#AA9", "#E34", "#C60", "#A80", "#890", "#2A9", "#28C", "#77D", "#C4B" ]
    }
  ]
}

A mini-post about a mini colour-scheme. That’s it! 🎉