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:

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", "#577", "#355", "#133", "#022" ]
    },
    { "name": "dark"
    , "colors": [ "#022", "#133", "#355", "#577", "#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! 🎉