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- 7 minutes ago | 3 points | 1 comments
- URL: https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/
- Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43827108
- Summary: The 12-bit rainbow palette was designed for use on National Grid: Live. It consists of 12 colors chosen for their perceived luminance, chroma, and hue. The palette uses a 12-bit color depth, allowing each color to be specified with a 4-character hexadecimal code. The designer used the LCH color space to create a palette with evenly-spaced hues and smoothly increasing and decreasing luminance. The resulting palette has 12 colors: #817, #a35, #c66, #e94, #ed0, #9d5, #4d8, #2cb, #0bc, #09c, #36b, and #639. The palette was designed to avoid large changes in luminance between neighboring colors, creating a more visually pleasing effect.