Splash Is a Colour Format

Post by humbugtheman » Sun, Jun 07, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

jiggawatts wrote: post #50

humbugtheman wrote: post #38

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author here. there are other ways to pick colours, yes

Almost all of the other ways are dramatically superior, for humans Oklab and the Munsell colour system are very obviously far more intuitive at low numbers of quantised steps: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MunsellColorWheel.sv... To be blunt: your system blithely ignores the color space, gamma curves, and human perception. There’s like… entire textbooks written on the topic of optimal encoding of hues given…

Post by humbugtheman » Sun, Jun 07, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

qubex wrote: post #47

humbugtheman wrote: post #36

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author here. splash is for screens, not coatings

That’s all fine and well until somebody says “okay that’s great for the letterhead, but give me a half tone for the business card divider”.

Post by humbugtheman » Sun, Jun 07, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

dudeinjapan wrote: post #46

humbugtheman wrote: post #44

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author here. the site does explain that

> Splash colours can help you avoid decision paralysis when picking colours. It's an emotional tool that stops you fussing around— trying to pick the "perfect" colour. OK I missed this. The intro paragraph explains "what" not "why". As this "why" is not immediately obvious (nor is something I've ever considered a "problem"), would suggest to put something short in the intro.

Post by humbugtheman » Sun, Jun 07, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

montroser wrote: post #54

> In Cellpond, I handpicked hexadecimal values for each channel so that the resultant colours would better fit my app's theme and needs. Well, this is an admission that trying to balance "wiggle room" without too much "fussing" with 1000 colors didn't really work. Evenly sampled in rgb space, a 1000 color palette yields neither enough flexibility (especially in the blacks, greys, whites), nor enough constraint to rea…

Post by sgentle » Sun, Jun 07, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

graypegg wrote: post #26

I get the concept, but I have a feeling this might not be any more comprehensible when picking a colour than other additive colour codes with a fixed range and components. It would be neat if you could express colours as a mix of arbitrary base colours, kind of like you’re mixing it on a paint palette. (ROYGBIVWK maybe? K being Key/blacK) r2b1 gets you a deep reddish purple, but if you want it to be lighter you just…