I have no feelings about the palette, as I would need to spent time applying it to really get a feel for it, but I like the website. The cleanliness and simplicity is nice.
Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
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#182All I see is black text on a white background. I'm using Firefox on Android. I assume it's supposed to show more?
It uses CSS nesting[1] (think SCSS) which requires Firefox 117 and Chrome 120 for full support[2]
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Nesting_sel...
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Lack of contrast hinders everyone with any kind of vision issues (old/colorblind etc.) False. Someone with some kind, but not everyone with any kind. This broad stroke that you've just painted is counter to the goals of accessibility. > “Too much” contrast means young hipsters complain it burns their eyes. Let's not trivialize disabilities we don't even know exist. But if you wanted to research this, you can look u…
> Let's not trivialize disabilities we don't even know exist. Ok, fair. But I don’t think it’s an accident that all the people I hear complain about contrast being too high are 20-something engineers. There’s nothing about good contrast that says it needs to blaze your eyes off. You can have perfectly good contrast with a completely black background and minimal amounts of light. Like I said, there’s no reason that “c…
I'm almost 50. And I have a big problem with my display, even during the day I run it at 0% brightness. During the night it's really way too bright. This is why I use dark mode. I also sometimes reduce the contrast but this messes up colour accuracy in a bad way.
I agree it's not really a content issue as much as a hardware issue. LCD screens have a limited backlight range and seem to be optimised for peak brightness not lowest brightness. Probably because big numbers sell better on paper. Even reviews only talk about top brightness these days.
My screen only tops around 200 nits and the lowest setting is way too high.
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#185The palette doesn't seem perceptually uniform, i.e. the contrast ratios of each tint vs. white/black aren't the same across all colors. Did your try analysing the palette in https://huetone.ardov.me/ ?
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Let's not trivialize disabilities we don't even know exist. Ok, fair. But I don’t think it’s an accident that all the people I hear complain about contrast being too high are 20-something engineers. There’s nothing about good contrast that says it needs to blaze your eyes off. You can have perfectly good contrast with a completely black background and minimal amounts of light. Like I said, there’s no reason that “c…
I'm almost 50. And I have a big problem with my display, even during the day I run it at 0% brightness. During the night it's really way too bright. This is why I use dark mode. I also sometimes reduce the contrast but this messes up colour accuracy in a bad way. I agree it's not really a content issue as much as a hardware issue. LCD screens have a limited backlight range and seem to be optimised for peak brightness…
Yeah, I'm at the point where I'm looking at manually positioning/removing one of those full-screen dimming filters so I can use my monitor past 7pm. And 90% of the time if a screen goes really dim it does so with savage PWM.
Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
#187The palette doesn't seem perceptually uniform, i.e. the contrast ratios of each tint vs. white/black aren't the same across all colors. Did your try analysing the palette in https://huetone.ardov.me/ ?
Nope, I just did what felt good. Does the huetone tool support OKLCH? I didn't see a toggle for it.
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#188TIL about oklch() https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...
Yeah I only found out about it recently myself, but my colleague is a bit more on the ball with developments like this.
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#189I've been using Tailwind's palette for this, even though I don't use Tailwind.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry to be negative, but it does seem kind of overdone now. Funnily enough in Japan the same thing happens with seemingly randomly-selected English words, so I suppose it's not completely without precedent.
The Chinese (on e.g. AliExpress) do this, too. With... mixed results. Small typo's, for example. Intentional (NOKlA) or not. Or, case in point: "NICGIGA is a technology enterprise focusing on communication network products. We have a perfect R&D team and Reliability laboratory."
> Intentional (NOKlA)
I'm not sure what your point is exactly, but fwiw, Nokia is the name of the Finnish town from which the Nokia company originates. They used to make rubber products such as rubber boots. I once had a bike with Nokia branded inner tyres (same logo, just without the "Connecting People" payoff). There's absolutely nothing Japanese about the word "Nokia", except maybe in the eye (ear?) of the beholder.